Comprehension of Another Kind

 

Every single day, each of us are faced with people who cannot grasp why it is we choose to live a healthy lifestyle. It bothers them so much that they feel the need to put their negative 2 cents in where it doesn't belong. That is why Im calling this blog Comprehension of Another Kind. I'm talking about people who have no idea what its like to be healthy, fit, motivated, positive and inspirational about it. You aren't alone. A majority of people who choose to live healthy get a lot of flack from those who choose not to live a healthy lifestyle.

One of the most common questions I get from people who are just starting to take control of their life & become healthy ask me if I still or ever had people try to bring me down & stop me from living this way. The answer is of course always Yes. I have and I still do. It won't ever stop and I can't try to make it stop. There are a few different ways to go about it and there are also ways to avoid drowning yourself in their cesspool of crude & rediculous remarks. 

When you begin your new healthy lifestyle, the one thing you focus on changing first are your eating habits. What you consume, how much you consume & what you avoid that people all around you don't think twice about. You probably notice you are being made fun of, ridiculed, mocked and laughed at. The problem with this is, if you pay attention to the people doing this to you, you'll probably see a very unfit & unhealthy person doing it to you. Someone who is insecure with themselves & finds it necessary to turn the attention away from them and onto you so others forget about that person's flaws for a bit. These people usually haven't ever even tried to do what you are doing and what they "sometimes" don't realize is they have absolutely NO ROOM to talk. Take into consideration who it is you are receiving these negative remarks from. They aren't credible to be lashing out at you about the way you choose to live period. The reason I have "sometimes" quoted above is because there are also the people who KNOW deep down they want to change but have already talked themselves so far out of it, that its not in their sight anymore. They have lost their dream and don't want to see others achieve what they wanted for themselves. 

There are also people who have been skinny their whole lives and don't think they need to do anything because they never had problems with weight. But what about thier insides? What about the problems they have on the inside of their bodies you and no one else can see? They haven't taken a minute to consider that just because they are thin on the outside, doesn't for one second mean they are fit on the inside. A majority of these people live that *Push of a Button* lifestyle and are visiting drive thru after drive thru and coffee shop after coffee shop loading their bodies with more processed and artificial foods and sugary fluids than you can imagine. Day by day they live like this and think they are completely healthy because on the outer appearence, they can't SEE anything wrong. No weight gain, no deterioration of the body, no energy loss or anything. They claim to "feel just fine" and they don't see a reason to change what they consume. However, all of that junk they're consuming, compounded over time like anything else, will catch up to them. Their health will most definitely fail in some way shape or form. They will lose energy, vitality, the natural glow of human skin, hydration and all kinds of things will start to appear or disappear. That's the point where they stop and wonder how it happened? How did all this just SUDDENLY occur. They can't grasp the fact that all those years of consuming absolute crap, has caught up with them and they are fading fast. The whole time they were making fun of healthy people, they were in turn destroying themselves from the inside out. 

Those of us who TRULY want our good health and are determined to have it, will INDEFINITELY go get it. Others who want it but just expect it to come easy, most likely won't ever get it, and if they do, it has taken so long for them to realize they ACTUALLY have to put in work to get it, that the process is MUCH harder than they ever could have imagined. Lastly, there are those people who want it, but don't care enough about themselves to even try. It is a really sad scenario. You can try to help these people all you want. You will find that you are chasing a dead end. You will have talked yourself into your grave constantly trying to get these people to understand why they should look after their health. You cannot help everyone. People have to be WILLING to get started, have their OWN determination and reasoning to do it. Let it go. Stop chasing these people and focus on whats important for YOU. We all have our own reasons to live the way we do. 

I want you to finish reading this blog knowing this, YOU are the most important person in your life. Before you can truly care for or help anyone else, you have to first care for and help yourself. Once you realize how important you are, you will understand why its important to take care of you first. We all have people we love in our lives, people we want to help and people we know need help, but won't ask for it, and won't ever admit they want it. The best thing you can do is continue to love those people, be a good example, don't criticize them and do for you what no one else can do. Be a positive role model to everyone. Whether or not you see it or realize it, we all have someone who looks up to us and those are the people we need to be good examples for. Create a ripple effect of love with a positive attitude, healthy habits and continual support of anyone's dreams and goals.