Friends with health and fitness excuses - Movable Mom

I recently had a rather unpleasant encounter with someone (fortunately not someone who I am very close to) related to the topic of health, our children?s health, healthy living ? you know, the topics many of us health and fitness enthusiasts hold dear to our hearts. Health and fitness enthusiasts may not always agree on exactly how to create the best fitness routine or what nutrients and food choices are better than others, but we all generally agree on the concept of living healthy, to feed ourselves and our children with whole and nutritious foods, and to exercise.

There is something that most of us fitness/health enthusiasts understand ? everyone can choose to make healthy choices but it is easier to have excuses not to. Those of us who ?made it over the hump? and are purposely working on a complete healthy lifestyle understand that it doesn?t happen overnight. Fitness, healthy eating, healthy choices ? they often take time.

It takes 3 weeks to make something become a habit, 6 months to make something a lifestyle.

When you?ve made it from ?habit? to the ?lifestyle? category with health and fitness, you understand just how damaging excuses are. Bob Harper always preaches it: ?NO MORE EXCUSES!?

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During my negative encounter, the person told me that using the word ?excuses? means you are calling someone lazy. No! An excuse is what it is ? it means you chose not to do something and then developed a reason to justify it. For those of us who have shed most unhealthy choices and vices, we understand the sacrifices and commitments. We crossed that bridge, we fought that war, and we conquered that mountain. We understand what it takes and how it is a process that is never finished.

Who doesn?t want to eat donuts? We all want big bowls of ice cream every night! We all want to sleep in longer rather than get up and workout. Many of us at one time weren?t leading the best life we could be living. Let?s not even talk about all of the bad choices many of us made during the college years. We all get it and we understand; most of us have been on both sides of this coin.

Excuses simply talk people out of doing things.

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As I continue on my journey of healthy living, I see this more and more and I know I?m not alone. We all want our friends and family to be healthy and fit and now we also see the excuses ever more clearly. I don?t know the answer on how to help others overcome their excuses. I?m not a personal trainer, but I understand why coaches and personal trainers have to get hard core with their clients and teams. Excuses stop people from accomplishing so much in life and sometimes people just have to be pushed to overcome them. Coaches and trainers know there will be times they won?t be liked, that their client will maybe even hate them. They also know pushing is for their own good and down the road, the client will appreciate it.

Watching the London Olympics really brings it all to light even more ? you won?t accomplish things without pushing yourself to do them and shedding any excuses stopping you. There is no other way!

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I try my best to encourage my friends and not push them. After all, I don?t want to lose friendships. However, there are times when a true friend means being the person who pushes someone to do healthier things, to have a better life, ?and to stop making bad choices. A friend who watches you make poor decisions and never says anything isn?t necessarily the best friend either.

How do you deal with friends and family who don?t make good health choices or are struggling trying to make better choices but can?t seem to make it happen? I think it is very hard to do this without having bad feelings.

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