Seriously, Let's Move

So after the excitement of being in the same venue as Michelle Obama and having a week that was probably my busiest of 2011, I had no clue what the topic of this week's blog would be.  That is until I found out a family friend had to be rushed to the emergency room.  The primary culprits were improper diet and lack of exercise.  Because I really have a passion for fitness and actually desire to be a trainer on "The Biggest Loser" this piece of information stopped me.  Sometimes people have the tendency to know the right thing to do, but often tend to do the opposite.  For so many of us we know the right things to eat and that we should participate in some form of exercise, yet we choose to eat the sugars, drink the sodas, and we call walking to the car our form of exercise for the day.

So what do you do to motivate others to live healthy?  I've learned through frustration that you can't make someone decide to want to live, you can't force them to eat right or force them to exercise.  But what you can do is educate them.  This Wednesday Michelle Obama discussed "Let's Move."  It's a platform that encourages families to eat right and exercise.  She discussed how the issue of health is bigger than one person, it starts with the individual-yet through family, friends, and social organizations, living a healthy lifestyle becomes integrated into society and pretty soon becomes a way of life for everyone.   Her message is simple, it's point blank, and it's exactly what we need. 

The way I see it is if we continue to keep our blinders on and just eat whatever, drink whatever, and live however just because we want to, pretty soon we'll be looking at a population of overweight parents, young adults, teens, and infants.  Pretty soon we'll be the U.S. population of elephants!  I chuckle but it's true.  My motto is if you have the choice to be healthy and live, then choose to live!  Eat right, exercise, and don't take for granted the body you've been blessed with.  Don't find yourself having to workout and having to eat right because the doctors have given you the warning that if you don't change you'll die.  So I encourage everyone to start fresh today.  Today choose to make one new choice regarding what you eat and give yourself one new reason to work out and enjoy it!  We only get one body-and when given the privilege to choose whether we want to be sick or healthy we should---well I'll let you decide which option works best for you.  Hopefully your decision won't take very long.

Be Healthy!
~Dee