So today is the day, or morning rather. It's 2:01 am and I'm up writing about starting my health journey.

Old Habits & Decisions

For as long as I can remember I have been on and off with living a healthy life. I get into a groove where I'm eating healthy and I can't even stand junk food. But then somewhere down there line I end up slipping back into old habits.

I truly believe this comes from doing what we call dieting. You see, dieting is like a quick fix or a short phase that I go through and once my goal is reached I feel that I have made it. When I get that since of accomplishment I start to slip back into old habits and then soon enough forget about eating healthy.

I'm not getting any younger so I have to watch my health more closely.

Living In America

Living in America doesn't make it any better. Everywhere we go we are blasted with ads everywhere telling us to eat more junk, drink more beer, eat more bacon, etc.

Now I believe that we ultimately make our own decisions on eating junk but being in an environment as such, you do have to have a bit more will power.

I was born in Georgia and in Georgia, we have what we call southern hospitality. Just about any house you visit, you are welcomed with open arms and huge plates of food. You can eat a huge plate of food and they will continuously ask you if you are hungry.

All of my cousins and uncles grew up and moved out of my grandma's house but she will still cook dinner like she is cooking for the army.

I think with me growing up in this environment caused me to mentally think that I have to finish all of my food. We were taught that you can get the juice or dessert unless you eat all of your food and so that's what we did. That pattern has carried allllll the way up till this day with me.

BUT NOW...

Now the time for change has come. It's time for me to reprogram my mental and start listening to my body rather than what I'm mentally thinking.

Listen To Our Bodies

I believe our bodies tell us almost everything we need to know but I feel that we are so out of touch with it that we just ignore all the symptoms or we just flat out don't care.

A change is needed and necessary. I don't want to be 80 years old and can hardly do anything, I want to be those 80 years olds you see still driving cars, taking multiple vacations, working out, and just being super active.

I believe we were designed to work until we die and when we don't do that, we shrivel up and die an early death.

I love life and I love a healthy one at that.

Rewards & Punishments

At the end of the day you just have to think about the rewards and punishments. Which one of those are truly worth it.

Do you want a life filled with diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, etc just because you wanted to satisfy your fleshly wants??

Or do you want a life filled with longevity, energy, liveliness, and a physically fit body that you're not ashamed of??

For me the choice is easy because I'm terrified of having bad health in my golden years. I know that in order to live the life I want later, I have to live it the right way now to reap the benefits.

Real Engagement & Sharing The Wealth

If you have read this far thanks!! I hope that you follow me on this journey because my plan is to document it on Steemit.

As I build my Steem Power up more and more, I look forward to spreading the wealth to all of my followers that engage with useful information.

So please if you have some good info on things that work for you LONG TERM please let me know. I want things I can stick with for almost a lifetime.

Until next time my fellow Steemians!