Jubilee Health Place

Finding a Place of Health and Fitness through God's Grace

Motivation

What’s The Cost Worth To You?

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I’m sure you’re familiar with it…the ups and downs of eating right! I speak from experience because we’ve been eating healthy, no carbs, but after 10 weeks I just plain revolted. I made a batch of brownies (although we only ate maybe 4-5…the rest I sent with our son to his work place and the guys enjoyed them!). However I didn’t stop with brownies…urgh!!! I also got some chips – lightly salted potato chips AND corn chips. We enjoyed a few for lunch and later on.

Morale of our error is don’t do what we did! I paid the consequences for several nights with my stomach being upset. It dawned on me then (duh!) that my body was revolting for eating the carbs I knew I shouldn’t eat but wanted. I should have taken the advice from my son-in-law who shared his consequences of binging on carbs after not having them for so long…an upset stomach!

So often we think we’re being kept away from the things that taste good because we’re wanting to get healthier. We’re not being kept away from them really. We’re choosing to eat other things that satisfy and nourish us. A handful of chips make you want to eat another handful. Then come the cookies you haven’t had for ages, or the delicious chocolate brownies. Okay, ENOUGH of that! I know you understand this entire process because you’re not unlike me…you’ve been there.

SO, how do we handle these times? We walk right on by the ‘sweet shop’, the ‘salty shop’, the ‘tempting shop’, and determine we’re not going to indulge for just a second of tempting taste for hours of our body revolting and yelling at us. We’re going to stay on the road to healthy eating!

It’s worth the discipline and effort. Stay the course. You’ll be happier.

Let’s continue eating healthy y’all!

Walking and Creativity

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You may have heard it before:  Walking is good for your overall well being.  It’s important for our health—besides burning calories—and the benefits gained when we put one foot in front of the other.

But that isn’t all there is to walking. I recently read an article on Leslie Sansone’s Walk At Home Facebook page that highlighted a Sanford University study on walking and creativity. How does walking help you? Does it contribute to your better health? Does it enhance your mental capacities? Does it boost creativity?

These were some of the questions Stanford researchers had when they looked at two groups of people: those who walked and those who just sat at their desk. We already know that walking is beneficial for all of us and contributes to our better health but could walking boost our creativity levels enhancing mental capacities? According to co-authors Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz, both with Stanford Graduate School of Education, creative thinking improves while a person is walking as well as shortly thereafter.

Maybe you can related if you’ve been stuck on something you’ve been working on for some time, and you even got up and paced back and forth in an effort to come up with some new ideas. Did it help? Probably more times than not, walking as you paced actually enhanced your mental ability to think.

The study found that walking—either outdoors or indoors—boosted creative inspiration. They concluded that the walking itself was the main factor, not so much the environment in which they walked. Another of their experiments found that walking indoors or outdoors produced twice as many creative responses compared to a person staying seated at their desk. Creative juices flowed for those sitting yet the ‘walkers’ had increased creativity.

Many well-known CEO’s have practiced the creativity increase when they’ve held some of their meetings ‘on foot’. Steve Jobs was one to have walking meetings as well as Mark Zuckerberg.

We definitely agree with Marily Oppezzo when she concluded that physical activity is important and sitting too long in unhealthy. They discovered that walking can increase your creativity and thinking ability.

So, do you need a new idea? Do you need some inspiration? Get out into God’s world, enjoy the beauty He’s created, and expect that He’ll give you some new creative ideas as you walk, walk, walk.

What About Eat, Drink, And Be Merry?

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What’s the often heard expression? “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.” Evidently it was the thinking many years ago, and was even scratched on the walls of a Paris eatery in 1793 by one of the leaders of the French Revolution before going to war. However, the Apostle Paul quoted it in both the Old Testament (Isaiah 22:13) and New Testament (1 Corinthians 15:32) showing the pointlessness of life for Christians if there was no belief in the resurrection.

So, where does the phrase leave us today?

Unfortunately many folks today abide by this phrase and their physical bodies suffer as they continue to eat and eat and enjoy. We can eat and be merry and still enjoy a healthy life. The problem with following this phrase provides an “out” for many people. ‘Hey, we’re going to die anyway, so why not eat and enjoy life?’ That sounds like giving up and giving in to me.

Let’s not follow thinking that gives up and puts off getting and staying healthy. Let’s not be negative in our outlook for the future. The future ahead is bright with possibilities. Let’s emphasize living life in a healthy way.

Today Is The Day

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Today is the day you leave the old mindset of dieting.

Today is the day you leave the shame, guilt, and frustration of dieting.

Today is the day you walk into a newer You.

Today is the day you move forward to a better life of health and joy.

Today is the day you take control of your health.

Today is the day you make the necessary changes because you can do it.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Attacking Boredom

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Boredom has a lot to do with dieting. You’ve heard us mention it before. There you are cruising along doing okay with your new eating regiment (diet), and then you’ve got some time on your hands. You don’t have anything specific to do, or so it seems. That’s when the thoughts arise and you stalk the kitchen, at work, at home, or somewhere else.

Boredom attack is taking place, and that’s when you need to turn around and go the other way. So, what do you do? Dig your heels into the floor, turn around, and get away from the temptation.

You CAN do it. Determine that eating whatever is around is not going to make you feel unbored. You need to get your attention elsewhere and the kitchen is not the place. Concentrate on something else, somewhere else, and you will overcome these times. Boredom is not the end to dieting.

Consistency Is The Key

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Health is important. Health affects your entire body as well as your entire life. We should make it a priority yet most of us fail in being consistent in doing so. We let other things get in our way. We let our emotions direct our eating. We let circumstances dictate how we feel. It’s easy to say I’m going to diet and another thing to follow through and do it. 

Let’s not have grass grow under your feet in getting healthy, especially as you age. God has designed our bodies in such a way that even our immune system will fight against disease. 

We say don’t let the grass grow under your feet. Keep them feet moving. Get the exercise your body needs, even if you can only walk. Walking is the least expensive activity/exercise you can do, and you can do it anywhere. Decide your health is worth more than the extra weight you carry around, and start making some changes to increase your well-being. Hey, that donut only tastes good for less than a minute. Put the donut down and walk away…you can do it!