The health science:

What is a healthy lifestyle?

Does it mean focusing on food and counting calories all day? Does it mean calculating the amount of running you should do to burn off the calories from eating an extra banana? I hope not. There is a lot of misconception in today’s world that being part of a healthy lifestyle means going all out and either depriving yourself or over-exercising in order to ‘look perfect’.

Coming from a person who did it all, I can assure you that those things will not bring you a happy lifestyle.

The whole point of being in the healthy lifestyle wagon is to be, and most importantly, feel healthy. You mind has to understand the logic behind eating boiled vegetables instead of fried ones; it needs to like eating boiled vegetables. You can’t always force yourself to eat things you don’t like, because you will end up quitting after a while,

it’s human nature. The healthy lifestyle journey is not made only for one to three months before the summer season, no; it’s made to last forever. It’s a lifestyle!

You want to be happy doing it. This is why it’s just as important to train your mind as much as your body.

You need to train your mind into believing that the healthy lifestyle is the best thing for you. There is a logical reason why you eat boiled vegetables instead of fried, find it.

Quick story to show you why training your mind works better than putting in the action right away; my family has been a carnivore for as long as I can remember.

I was raised drinking milk, eating meat, and cracking eggs. My father’s way of eating vegetables was to put spices on the meat, so you can imagine that going vegan was a big no in my family.

Well, I had a friend of mine who became vegan and looked absolutely amazing! I saw that she was eating more while still losing weight, and that her skin cleared up completely! I was amazed.

Therefore, I decided to try out the vegan diet…. I lasted two weeks, until my father brought home my favourite chocolate cakes full of dairy and eggs.

I then decided to try another approach and learn about the science behind veganism. To this day, I am still vegan and it’s been a year.

The point I am trying to make is that my mind understood the logic behind eating vegan, and therefore my body followed. I wasn’t miserable when my parents ate steak and I ate vegetables, because I knew that it was the right thing for me to do.

I was happy; my mind was in sync with what my body wanted, and that’s the healthy lifestyle. It’s when your mind wants what the body wants, which bring me to the fabulous quote “listen to your body”.

There’s no better quote out there that can describe this lifestyle; simply listen to what your body is telling you.