In this article, I will give you my secrets to staying fit, both in body and mind, and offer tips on achieving your fitness goals at any age....CONTINUE READING
I sound like a wise old person. I’m neither wise nor old. But the older I get, the less stupid I become.
I recently finished my 65th trip around the sun. Sixty-five used to be old. Now, it’s the new whatever your mind wants it to be.
This leads me to … Secret #1.
Don’t think like an old person. EVER! I don’t care if you’re in your teens or 100s (The 100s group is growing in size); think young. Hang out with young people. Stay current. Embrace new technologies. Do stuff you’re not “supposed to do.” Break rules!
Never say … “When I was your age …” because the minute you do, you become a holier-than-thou annoying old person, and whoever you’re talking to will stop listening.
Turn the tables around and learn from people younger than you.
OK, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s get to why you clicked on this article — keeping your body — your temple, God’s temple, if that’s what you choose to call it — fit and healthy.
Did you get that? Healthy. Not just fit. Because many people look fit, but they’re one pushup or smoothie away from an injury or a health crisis.
Let’s start by breaking some food rules.
Give Yourself Permission To Eat Shit
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Food is fuel. It’s also fun.
The first thing you should eliminate from your diet is the word diet.
Diet implies eating for a designated amount of time to reach a goal (most likely losing weight), returning to your old ways, putting back all the weight you lost — and more — when your diet ends, and beginning the cycle anew.
You go on a diet and then back to being fat.
Diet, lose, eat, gain, rinse, repeat.
And as Tony Robbins once said, “The first three letters of the word diet are DIE.”
