How to stay healthy when disaster strikes!


 I was chatting to my husband last night about being alcohol-free and the wonders of it, I made a decision to never drink alcohol again, well over five years ago now, but my husband just sort of stopped over three and a half years ago, no plan to, no commitment to forever, just stopped.

I asked him if there was an occasion when he would ever drink again, he thought about it, and said that maybe if something really awful happened, maybe that was a default thing in people, but he couldn't be sure. He said, knowingly to me that he knew that I would never drink again, no matter what the circumstances, and I of course agreed. My time with alcohol is done.

THIS topic is something that I have thought of a lot over the years as a personal trainer, and hypnotherapist. Because a lot of people use times of trouble as an excuse to behave badly where health is concerned, but actually, times of trouble are when you need to be completely on your game. 

GRIEF is not an excuse to hit the bottle, or the cake, an accident isn't a time to stop exercising, divorce isn't the time to give up eating healthily and hitting the golden arches. 

TIMES of trouble are when you should really be at the very top of your game, so that you can stay strong both physically and mentally, but the amount of times I have heard the excuses to get back into bad health habits because of trauma, well, I've lost count.

SO, no I won't start drinking again because of a bad life event, I will channel my upset into yoga, healthy eating and trying to get good sleep. I won't start eating sugar again, because of bereavement, or loss of some kind, because it will not help my situation,  and it certainly won't help the future me!

HAVE a think now, have you used a life event to ditch healthy habits? Would you do it again, after all, who can comment if you are upset, right? 

BEING unhealthy in crisis, is not an option, be the very best version of you, that's how we get through life in one smiling piece!


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