You are a creature of " free will " , sure you can decide on what to do without needing a ' life coach ' . . .
Running is just stupid, it is a modern fad and ridiculous silly. When you run you burn fat (which is good) and at the same time your body burns muscle to fuel your metabolism. Thus as you bashing your spine, knees and hips you are losing bad fat and at the same time losing good muscle.
Put another way you cannot spot reduce your belly or thighs, your gender, age, environment, lifestyle and genetics all decide on how and where you will lose weight. Losing fat is good, adipose tissue pollutes the blood and increases resistance to blood flow thus raising blood pressure.
Losing muscle is real bad. As you get older you naturally lose muscle so why burn it off for nothing? Muscle is a heavier, denser tissue that cleans and filters the blood, plus it helps detoxify chemicals and also protects underlying body organs. Muscle burns ten times more calories per pound of muscle than the same weight of adipose tissue = fat.
Simply if you stop listening to modern new age fools you can live healthier and simpler. First grab your weight scales and throw in the bin. These things are useless, recording your weight daily just leads to never ending guilt trips over the numbers, once a week means you stress all week about what the number might be on Sunday morning.
Simply your weight is stupid; here is why ! ! ! Your body is well over 50% water thus simply and extra bathroom visit will throw the numbers around, who eats exactly the same food and diet and uses the exact same energy expenditure every day? No one has an absolutely exact same day of water intake versus food metabolism is just not practical. Let me say if your living your life by the scales you need some therapy ; sorry but the truth hurts . . .
Next are your measurements, you can be 300 pounds and healthier than someone who only weighs 150 lbs. Guess how you will feel if you get your body-weight down to 7%, it is 99% certain you will feel like crap and possibly look even worse ! ! !
The easiest way to live is simple, just go native and off the grid. No I am not talking about moving to the hills of North Carolina with a knife and water bottle. I am saying eat the diets that people ate 50 years ago. Simply reject calorie counting, it has nothing to do with health it is simply just another way humans try and quantity information. The healthiest people on the planet are those who have never heard of information overload and do not listen to the spin stories in weight loss magazines . . .
It is a bit like a financial planner can they predict the future of the economy; obviously they cannot. Can a magazine or website analyse your lifestyle or genetics or know if your a vegan or meat eater? Of course they cannot, they simply exist to sell advertising space in their trash rags.
Yes ; decades ago trans-fats were bad, but in this new age. With genetically modified foods, poisons added to foods, over processing, flavorings, etc etc. Bad fats are probably overall healthier than all the modern harmful rubbish in your foods. Simply reject any thing reported in the last 25 years, prior to this publishers tried to have quality control over information published with their names upon it.
Today any idiot can publish anything, researchers get paid to conduct research. Getting paid means they must publish the results, no one ever checks on the quality of trash these experts and professionals publish. If you are unsure of anything I have written above find a modern search engine and do a search. You will find experts opinions; then simply rephrase your question and you will find the opposing experts who tell you the first experts were wrong.
So rather than recording what you eat each day or how much you exercise, devote that time to strength training with body weight exercises. The experts have failed to make society healthier, if you wish to avoid diabetes, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, liver cancer or renal failure you need to take personal control of your life NOW.
These fools who work for large multinationals or peddle supplements or rave about overpriced organics have made the modern world a very sick and unhealthy place. The easiest way is to adopt a basics type approach and to simply not waste your time reading about modern health or fitness discoveries. Remember government guidelines are written by political bureaucrats not medical opinions . . .
Not sure? take the government recommendations about the safe amount of alcohol consumption. This level varies by country not by science. Britain has a different result to Spain who is different to Russia who is different to Italy, France or the USA.
Everyone ; including me has an opinion. So stop listening to others and make your own mind up, reject all the modern information, use that time to feel good about yourself by doing body weight strength training, after all its your only health best friend . . .
Use the internet to prove every word I have written above ! ! !