New Year remodel project

Well I was busy last weekend doing a little home improvement project and remodeling our master bath.  Ripping out the old outdated tile and cabinets and replacing them along with a fresh coat of paint.  So it got me thinking to see how everyone is doing one month into your personal remodeling project of your body, that is if you set any New Year's resolution to eat better and exercise more...most of us did.

It is hard to stay the course with diet and exercise even if we know it is important to help us live a longer, happier and healthier life.  Even though there is lots of research with study after study continuing to show the benefits of exercising to help improve our life.  But it is complicated to do the right thing and not as simple as having will power to do it.  An interesting study looking at people sticking to diet plans, which is usually just as hard for most as sticking to our exercise plan, had some interesting points.  It showed that the more complex your plan the more likely one would be to stop doing on a regular basis.  To take a quote from Gary Gray, PT a mentor of mine - "We need to get to the simple side of complexity".  Yes the proper diet and exercise programs can be made extremely complex especially when listening or reading some of the things that are out there, but huge gains can be made when sticking to a thought that follows the 80/20 rule.  You can get 80% of your benefits from exercise and diet by sticking to the easy 20% of simple principles in exercise and diet. Check out a few of my past posts on these core principles of exercise and diet.  Here is a great 10 step idea to help with weight loss success with your diet that can help as well.

Also for those that have gone so far and are obese we need to realize that this is a medically complex problem that needs serious attention.  We need to realize that often times an obese individual has an addiction problem and needs outside help to get going the right direction again.  Why people get obese is a very complex and individual for each person and not easily changed.  There was a great article to pointed to this mind shift that needs to change if we are to help the obese get healthy.

So you know it can be difficulty, so how do you fix it? Check this article out on setting the record straight.  We need to exercise more and eat less.  But keep it simple and realize it takes patience and persistence and if you are struggling you may need some outside help, and that's okay! - we weren't put on this earth to be alone we need each other.

What are some things you do to help keep yourself on track with your personal body remodel?