Resolutions for Wellness

Each year folks resolve to get more healthy. These normally include things like “I want to lose a lot of weight” or maybe “I want to eat really healthy from now on.” Wanting to boost your health is a really good goal. The real truth is that there are very few people who don’t need to improve their health in some way. All the same, it is really simple to go overboard in terms of New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately a lot of people attempt to do too much too quickly because they shed all of their motivation by February or March.

So how do you make the dedication to getting healthful without going overboard? There are generally a pair of schools of thought here. The first states to go little by little and produce small goals for yourself. The next claims that it is better to plan out the long term with shorter jaunts along the way. Both techniques are beneficial if you would like get healthy and accomplish the things you resolve. More importantly, if you think about the bigger picture it is easy to break that picture down into a bunch of littler pixels that you can accomplish in order. Here are some good examples. And do this outside, ideally on artificial grass.

If you’re looking to lose 50lbs by 2012 that may be split into a not much more than four pounds per month or one pound per week. That’s correct: just a little bit more than one pound per week. That’s manageable. Just abstaining from soda pop should enable you to get there. Obviously staying away from soda alone isn’t really enough to get the job done but it can help you gather steam when you are first starting and while you learn how to keep off the pounds that you drop every week.

If you are interested in animal rights and would like to go the vegan route, don’t try to do this all at once. Your health and wellbeing will hurt and the withdrawals you face will make your transition a lot harder to take and you will be less likely to stick to it in the long run. Start out by quitting one particular kind of meat. Then, after a time, drop yet another kind of meat. Once you’ve removed all of the major meat groups from your diet, you can focus on cutting out dairy. After you have fixed your dependence on dairy, start working on eliminating all of the animal-based ingredients in the bigger foods you eat (jello, for example, contains gelatin which is made from animal products). And to celebrate your success, go whale watching if you are anywhere near the sea. This will allow you to learn what to seek out on ingredients labels over a longer period of time (which will let you commit things to memory) and figure out what new things you can eat to make up for the foods that you’ve cut out.

There are lots of ways that you could get healthier during the year. New Year’s resolutions can be a great way to find motivation to get started on the work you need to do. Use small goals to help you keep working long past the time when you would normally give up on your resolutions and health goals.

Media and Body Image

A NAKED BABY

Recently, I was strolling along the beach with the dog, somewhat oblivious to my surroundings – either deep in thought with regard to the meaning of life, or perhaps it was that my morning coffee hadn’t quite kicked in, yet! When all of a sudden he appeared – A NAKED BABY!

Ok, I am not really a prude, but I still somewhat taken back by nakedness. One rarely encounters nakedness accidentally. But, lo and behold this little chap (I’d say about 3 years old or so) was definitely naked! And, he couldn’t have been happier.

My new little friend was with his dad and the family dog. The dog and Jr. were frolicking at the water’s edge. Occasionally, a wave would rise up and dampen the little guy only to be met with peels of laughter. He truly didn’t have a care in the world, nor did he have any inhibitions about his nakedness. All was right with the world!

So naturally, I had to over analyze this. At what point do we become self conscious? Does it happen naturally or is it imposed upon us by society’s norms? So, I did a little research. It seems preschool age is about when children begin forming opinions about themselves and when they are influenced by the comments of parents, other significant adults (teachers) and their peers. Other studies suggest a slightly earlier age of around 3.

My guess is my little friend’s naked jaunts on the beach have a pretty short remaining shelf life. In a year or so, his own sense of self will prevent such carefree abandon. And, thus begins a path of self consciousness that will remain into his golden years. For many, this begins the path of body awareness – we will spend the rest of our lives analyzing, critiquing and fretting over our bodies.

Am I jealous of my little buddy? Absolutely! Imagine a day at the beach with out sucking in my gut or worrying about what was jiggling. A day without worry what others were thinking. A day without counting carbs. A day to shed off age-old inhibitions and just live.

Imagine for a minute, if we could just recapture that carefree abandon of running naked in the surf. When we didn’t judge our bodies, when we didn’t compare ourselves to beauty standards imposed by an industry trying to sell us perfection – if we only took this pill, wore these clothes, but this product, etc . . . Imagine how happy we could be. How we could focus on life’s important lessons. How we could learn to love one another for the beautifully unique creatures that we are.

Just imagine!

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