Would you rather look healthy than be healthy? A client of mine said that she wanted to look more healthy and as I thought about what she had said, it struck me that we often wish for the wrong things and then wonder why our lives take detours. It is so much easier to be fake than real. Sometimes we even fool ourselves into believing that our fake lives are actually true!

How many times have you announced the start of a weight loss plan, got every one’s attention on you, then , unable to maintain the plan effectively, you keep up the pretence by eating carefully around the people you have involved while in secret, you chaotically indulge in high fat , high sugar snacks- sometimes making excuses to leave the room or not attend functions so that you can over eat at your pleasure.

Have you  made excuses to yourself as to why you cannot exercise today? And, when you see the figure on the scale shifting in the wrong direction, do you weigh yourself  three more times as if you cannot fathom what happened ?

You deceive even yourself!

I say, stop trying so hard to ‘look’ the part and start behaving the way you want to be. If you want to be more healthy, do something that you can do towards that goal. Don’t look to please your audience, do it to impress yourself. Your health is not an ‘all or nothing’ case.  Make it a ‘something or anything’ case. Don’t look for a miracle, be the miracle!