Thoughts on Living a Healthy Lifestyle

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As many of you know, I have a three simple goals for my physical body: Health, athleticism, and aesthetics. I talked about these briefly in the nutrition principles article. Today I want to expand on the health issue a bit and lay out some basic ideas for people to contemplate.

First of all, I want to define health as more than just a lack of disease. Health is much more than that. Health means you have a lack of disease plus you have physical vitality and energy. Health is feeling good physically. Health is thinking clearly. Health is having an inner sense of vibrance and vitality. The way that I look at it, health is having youthful energy.

Nutrition Plain and Simple

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When I first started on my quest to improve my body I had no clue what to eat. Nutrition was foreign to me but I knew it was an important issue that I needed to fully master if I wanted to increase the quality of my life. I didn’t feel like I had a choice, I needed to figure out some guiding principles for optimal nutrition. After years of trial and error and personal research, I feel like I’ve figured what works and what doesn’t. I say this because of the results I’ve experienced. Basically I’ve been able to lean out my body, become more athletic, more muscular, I feel great, I rarely get sick (haven’t gotten a cold or any sort of flu for over a year now), and the amount of energy I experience throughout the day has increased substantially. Life is good. In fact, life is great. The foundation for a terrific life has been set, and I owe a lot of it to learning what to eat and also what not to eating. Along with experiencing results, these guidelines and principles have been sustainable and even enjoyable.