The Lifestyle

I thought for my first blog post I would give you guys an excerpt from the info packet I send out to clients.  This piece is particularly applicable today. Yesterday was a rough day emotionally for my wife and I, having attended a memorial service for our friends' infant.  I did get one workout in, but it was hard to start and hard to not get distracted.  Sometimes it's best to let that be the way that it is, get your meals right, and get to bed early to start fresh the next day.  So that's exactly what we did.  Today I have energy, today I am refreshed, and today I'm moving forward knowing that my friends will be okay and I am making progress.

"Everything we do every day is interconnected physically.  Every hour we sleep, every meal we eat, every ounce of water we drink, every workout we do, and every minute we experience stress.  Let’s look at it from the perspective of an ideal state.  In an ideal state, our bodies get everything they need to recover from every day, and perform at their peak consistently.  When we experience stress, our bodies are flooded with cortisol, we don’t sleep well, so we wake not feeling rested, and aren’t able to perform well the next day.  We run low on energy, so we don’t get exercise, then don’t sleep well again, and the cycle repeats. Insomnia becomes the norm, and surviving the days becomes the goal instead of thriving.  I use this example because stress is most often what knocks us off our game.  Some of us eat more when we are stressed, some less, and either way we find it harder to be consistent with our meals when we are just trying to make it through every day."