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How Eating Slower will Change Your Life
Here are two simple tips to get your life and your healthy body together.
Just begin again, but make sure you do these two things.
Many people set ambitious goals in January, but by March, the initial enthusiasm fades off. This leads to decreased motivation for working toward their goals. If your goals include healthy eating and keeping your body in healthy and happy shape, I would love to share these two crucial tips to ensure that you stay on track and the process brings you the most satisfying results. I used to compete in Fitness while training at Gold’s Gym in Venice, California — the mecca of bodybuilding. Because of the competitions and the extreme dieting, I developed an eating disorder, so on a scale of “healthy and happy body” to “depressed and unhealthy body,” I have been to both extremes. It has taken years of hard work for me to get back to the middle of the scale.
The struggles and hard work weren’t on the physical level; the process was very much about mental and spiritual hard work. To achieve a healthy and happy body is not about finding the “secret exercise,” the “ultimate diet,” or the “slim-down-quick program.” I knew all of them by heart, and I still struggled to get back to the middle of the pendulum. I know the pain of hating your body and being ashamed. To be free and independent, I had to free myself…
