It has been said that most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a lifetime. I find this runs perfectly true for my experience in practice. So often people come in and tell me all of their big plans about how they are going to change their diet, exercise more, start thinking positively and give up smoking.... all this week! Whilst I am always supportive and encouraging I also try and help them make their goals more realistic and encourage them to make some longer term goals. On the other hand when it comes to really big long term goals and dreams, far too many people dismiss them as impossibilities because they can't see how they could ever get there.
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You don't need me to tell you that our lives are becoming busier and busier and that time pressures are one of the biggest stressors we have. Often the biggest challenge is not how much time we actually have but how effectively we are using it. Our modern lives are so full of distractions and time wasters that we often spend all our time and energy doing stuff that doesn't really matter.
There is no better way to stress out your body than not being honest. And it doesn't matter whether we are talking about being honest with others or with yourself.
When you are trying to make healthy lifestyle change one of the hardest things can be the lack of support or even open ridicule of those around you. People can be quite confronted by your choices, as if you were making a personal attack on the lifestyle they are accustomed to. So choosing to surround yourself with people who support your choices can be very important to your journey.
Scepticism can be defined as a studied attitude of questioning and doubt. A healthy degree of scepticism is an important tool to have in all aspects of your life and health is no exception. It used to be that a man in a white coat would tell us what we needed to do and we would just blindly follow the leader, but not any more. Now we have access to a wealth of information from a wide variety of sources - some reliable, some not so much - and it up to each of us to find what works for you. It also used to be the case that we could trust our media (to a reasonable extent) to report the facts. Now it seems that we are more concerned with a good story than a truthful one.
