People often say “everything in moderation” to validate someone’s indulgence into some vice or other. For instance, your daily Starbucks habit, eating fries from McDonald’s once a week, smoking cigarettes but ‘only when I drink,’ etc.
Sure, you may only do these things on certain days in certain circumstances, you have been exposed to a massive amount of other toxic chemicals throughout the week. The reality is for most of us, it is not possible to do anything “in moderation” these days.
From the moment we wake up, we are applying toxic chemicals to our bodies through shampoos, soaps, deodorants, toothpaste, makeup, and face creams. Then we start ingesting toxins from the foods we eat via pesticide and chemical fertilizers, additives, stabilizers, and sugars. All this and the day have just begun!
Throughout the day we are exposed to an intense amount of toxins through food and the environment…this is not even including the stress most of us are under from our daily jobs.
Many of us are barely getting enough sleep each day, drinking too much caffeine to get going and on top of that, we are trying to lose weight and increase our non-existent energy through exercise. Then you start adding the “everything in moderation” principle each week with the odd diet coke, that cigarette or two, that dairy queen blizzard, that subway sandwich for lunch and before you know it, your system is overloaded with Stress, Toxicity, and Inflammation.
The ever-increasing Toxic Load on our bodies makes it extremely difficult for us to get in great shape and to feel great.
When we want to get into shape, we tend to add more exercise to our schedule – this is awesome because exercise helps get us into shape. Except exercise is a stress, an amazing stress, but a stress, nonetheless. We stress our bodies through exercise so that they can become stronger, faster, leaner, etc.
The change we are looking for through exercise will only happen given the proper recovery – this must be understood!
If you increase your exercise stress to get into better shape, then you must find ways of recovering from that stress.
Reducing inflammation is key. You already caused “inflammation” through exercise so now you are focusing on recovering from that inflammation to see the results of your demanding work. Getting enough sleep becomes extremely important and so does reducing your intake of inflammatory foods and toxins.
You are already exposed to a massive amount of toxins that are slowing your progress and sapping your energy each day. Ditch the “everything in moderation” mantra and be truthful with yourself about the number of toxic treats you allow yourself each week.
Want fast results?
Go through your hygiene products and switch as many of them to natural products as possible – yes, even your deodorant! Do you think Crest, Colgate, Degree, Oil of Olay, and others have your health in their best interests? Of course, they do not – or they would not use toxic ingredients in their ‘health’ products.
Eat a diet of clean, real foods that are organic and preferably local, drink only filtered water, ditch all the sports supplements that contain artificial sweeteners, flavors, and colors, and always read labels for added ingredients your body does not need.
I am not saying that you should not treat yourself once and a while. What I am saying is if you do something each week then it is not actually “moderation” at all, it is a habit and one that might not be serving you!
Work with a coach who can help you with habit change today! You deserve to be your best self!