Hello everyone!
Tahnee is posted today all about Fitness and Healthy. This girl knows here stuff and has the body to show for it. She also loves helping people! So I was so excited when she told me she would be a guest. Enjoy!
Good Morning Everyone,
I was so thrilled when Taylor asked me to do a guest post on her blog about health and fitness. I have been thinking for the past week about what I could post. There are so many different avenues that I could take in regard to this topic. I wanted to write about something that would impact all of you in a way that would change your life. Something that would encourage you to want to become a better person and take care of your bodies, both inside and out!
In my work I run across so many women that have low self-esteem and a poor self-image. They struggle with their weight and there health but have no idea what to do to go about making a change for the better. It saddens me to see this, to see so many women who have the potential to be incredible but don’t have the tools or the “know how”. I have watched this over the past 5 or 6 years and realized what the problem is. Our society today teaches that everything is a quick fix, quick fix pills, quick diets, instant results. Everything is fast and at the tip of our fingers, internet, cell phones, fast food etc. In regard to health there is always a new “Fad diet” that everyone wants to try, Atkins diet, Paleo diet, Pill soak diet and the Raw food Diet just to name a few. They all guarantee an instant fix to your weight problems. However this is incorrect….
Now the big secret….. You ready…. To achieve excellent health and an overall healthy looking physique the answer will NEVER come in a box, it will never come in a shake form, it will never be in a diet that states “Lose 30 pounds in 30 days” and it will never be an instant fix. The KEY to optimum health is consistent hard work, healthy eating for more than 30 days and a true and honest change in your lifestyle. A change in what you buy at the grocery store and how you cook. A consistent change in driving past the fast food restaurants to go home to make a chicken Salad with fresh REAL Food and a change in getting out of the “Fad Diet” or the “what’s popular” box and learning and educating yourself about what Health REALLY means.
Good Health will never consist of counting calories in my book. In my program, that I put each of my clients through, we NEVER count calories. Our main focus, as should be yours, is on WHAT goes in our mouths instead of HOW MUCH! It is so important to put your health first and for most above anything else. When you do this you began to focus on how you feel, how much energy you have, how your food is effecting your skin and hair.. And then GUESS WHAT…. When you put your health above your calorie counting, and do these things, then your PHYSICAL appearance will follow suite. If you are only focused on how you look on the outside then you will struggle with your weight forever. I like to compare our bodies to a car. If we take care of the inside of our cars, changing the oil, flushing and replacing fluids and keeping up maintaining the inside of the care then our cars will run faster, longer and won’t become sluggish and or (Fat) like our bodies do eventually.
Food is FUEL!!!! 100% of my clients who change what they eat see a dramatic change in their physical appearance. It’s all in the kitchen. One of my favorite quotes truly illustrates this,
“Do you live to eat or do you eat to live? I want you to reflect about that today. What matters most to you, pleasing your brain with fattening foods or consuming foods for the proper functionality of your body, all your systems together? When you live to eat you are not worried about the future, when you get older with more vulnerable health. There is nothing wrong with eating chocolate once a week or pizza every once in a while. What’s hard to accept though, is how food and happiness are so closely attached in the modern times. As far as I remember from school, our ancestors would hunt food to survive, to assure that their body was healthy and strong; Survival law. Only the strongest ones would be able to make it. NOW, how is it beneficial to us to eat empty calories, what does this bring to you? What does a doughnut add to your life? EAT to LIVE people, NOT the other way around.” Bella Falconi.
To close I want you to remember this the next time you put something into your mouth. When it’s the choice between a fatty meal, cheeseburger with fries and bacon, or a chicken salad with chia seeds and brown rice. Remember what food is for. Remember that nutrients (Vitamins and minerals obtained from WHOLE FOODS) are what help our cells function the way they are designed. When they are starved of nutrition for a long period of time then they will start to malfunction, weight gain, disease, hair loss etc.
Remember EAT TO LIVE not the other way around!
Tahnee Halverson
Nutritional Counselor
Personal Trainer
For more information on my programs contact me at tahnee.halverson@gmail.com
Or visit my Facebook page “Tahnee Fitness”
Thanks Tahnee!!
XOXO, THM
