How To Make Healthy Change Essay

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Making the switch, making the change, being able to live healthier and to be proud of that is a difficult, but amazing thing to do. Before any physical changes should be made, I think it all has to start with mental health. There are many different ways to achieve a good mental health and to get into the right state of mind to make these healthy changes. Self-acceptance, self-help programs and stepping outside of the box are all associated with mentally getting in the right frame of mind to make healthier lifestyle choices. There are many, many different ways to make this start but in my opinion, these are the most important and most efficient. There are so many benefits to making these changes such as longer life, less likely to catch disease/illnesses, …show more content…

Self-acceptance is the most important part about mental health. Accepting yourself, who you are and your body is an extremely important part about mental health and even physical health. Making healthy changes in your life is never an easy thing. Self-acceptance is in my opinion the first step, and the most important step in successfully making these changes. I read somewhere that if you did not love yourself before the change, you will not love yourself fully after the change. We must first appreciate ourselves for who we are, or it will always be an ongoing battle with us. In my experience, I had tried to make healthy changes many times before, but I was never happy with who I was, so one day, I decided that I needed to first love myself. I started slowly but surly, accepting more and more of who I was. It all fell into place after that. I had changed my eating habits, I was very active and would visit the gym 5 days out of the week, sometimes more. It was all so much easier to stay on track with from that point. If we cannot be okay with the shape, size, color or other details about our bodies and always be expecting to make ourselves look just like someone else or look a certain impossible way, we will never be happy with ourselves and we will always be let down. Being healthy is the best look for …show more content…

Filling your mind with things that will spread good, positive thoughts are always a good idea. There is never too much happiness. By reading, or watching or associating with anything that attributes to self-help is a good thing for a healthy mindset. We need to be in the proper mindset to change for the better and these things help us to do that. They are sort of like motivation. In a lot of these books they tell you how to "feed the soul". Which means to "feed the soul" with happiness. These lifestyle changes help you to feel really great and to lead a better life, It is just initially difficult to take those first steps. A lot of the time it is because people think they can 't do it. That is the wrong mindset and won 't stretch you very far. A change in routine is something that needs to be adapted to, which is hard. These motivational programs that help people to be leading on to the right path have saved many. People often do not think they work as good as they do. These things don 't only have to be used before or at the beginning of the change, but throughout the persons life. It can be beneficial to continue with even many many years after the fact, becuase it is an ongoing process. Even when that goal is hit, we don 't just stop, we maintain it, so why stop reading/watching

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