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When you are healthy, it doesnt just mean the absence of a disease or infirmity but it encompasses all other aspects such as physical and mental well-being. Maintaining an optimum level of care entails sacrifices when it comes to discipline, control and dedication. Just as they say that no pain, no gain.

Due to the global pressure that dictates how men and women should look like, many individuals resort to various faulty dietary and weight reduction regimen in their desire to look as fit as those featured in magazine covers. Media has dictated that women must look skinny slim while men must be able to flaunt six-packed abdominal muscles. These absurd practices most often than not are unsuccessful as they have brought unprecedented untoward effects on our general well-being specifically on our health. Faulty thinking, unrealistic goal-setting, diet fads and the nature of our work are some of the factors that affect our health habits and health maintenance.

Faulty thinking is one of the major factors that affect the way we perceive our health. Berating ourselves for failures and inadequacies only put inordinate pressure on us, thus an unparalleled dissatisfaction with just about anything surmounts. Lack of self-esteem and lack of self-confidence does not only affect our health but also the way we deal with people around us and vice versa. Therefore, being healthy also means thinking healthily about you.

Setting goals beyond our expectations and beyond our capabilities definitely will take its toll on us. In losing weight for example, we do not have to resort to rapid weight regimen and beat deadlines as we will only feel frustrated if we do not meet our goals. Purchasing apparel one size smaller than our actual size, all the more will put us to an emotional turmoil as we will be reminded of our failure each time we see such apparel. A weight loss plan which is slowly but surely, until our body mechanism and body clock learns to adjust to it, is safer than rapid but unsafe weight-loss regimen.

Diet fads like crash dieting, skipping meals, all-meat, all-vegetable, non-carbohydrate or any other type of dietary habits do not guarantee a rapid weight loss. When you skip meals, this will only make you even want to eat more. Unbalanced proportion of necessary nutrients may cause memory lags that slow mental and physical response resulting to poor work or school performance, slowed physical activity and easy fatigability.

Our work also affects our general health as work-related stress and fatigue, at the end of the day, confine as to sitting or lying position, predispose us to consume a large meal but too tired to burn all the calories devoured. When you are around with friends or co workers who have unhealthy habits after office hours, you become more susceptible to indulge beyond our limitations as eating and engaging in lazy activities is such a contagious habit.

Although there are numerous ways to cut weight without jeopardizing your health, the secret to a successful weight loss lies in maintaining a balanced lifestyle such as eating a balanced diet at the right time, burning calories at the right time and the right way, engaging in an appropriate form of leisurely activities and adapting positively to stress and the balance for all of these lie in our hands and our responsibility.