Committing to Lifestyle Changes

Do you want to create healthier habits in 2014?  Creating a healthy lifestyle will require changing aspects of your current way of living.  A lifestyle change is not a 3-week or 3-month diet and exercise program – it is a commitment to a healthier life for the rest of your life!  I started exercising and adjusting my daily diet when I was 18 and even today I continue to look for ways to improve my diet and lifestyle.  For example, I love peanut butter and I used to eat Jif and Skippy.  I knew these brands included added sugar and salt, but I wasn’t ready to change – they tasted so good.  About 10 years ago I decided to try to make the switch to a natural peanut butter.  I finished my jar of Jif or Skippy and then decided to use a jar of the unsalted natural peanut butter.  It took a few months of alternating between the two types of peanut butter, but I slowly weaned myself from using Jif and Skippy and now I do not even like the taste.  I love the taste of the natural, unsalted peanut butter and look forward to having it on my toast every morning!

 Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

 The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions. - William J. Johnston