Everything You Need to Know About Fitness + Tips on Proper Nutrition

Health

How To Overcome Over-Exercising And How To Stop It Before It’s Happening:

Take an honest assessment of your exercise habits and your relationship with exercise.
Talk to a professional trainer, coach, or exercise instructor for recommendations about a good routine. Work with a dietitian or health coach to develop a healthy diet that supports your workout routine.
Hire a trainer or buddy up with an accountability friend. Having someone to support you and keep you accountable can not only help you with sticking to a workout routine, but also with sticking to a routine with a healthy amount of exercise without overdoing it.
Confront your fears around not exercising. Help from a counselor, therapist, life coach, or health coach can help you if you are obsessively compelled to workout and afraid to stop.
If you exercise to relieve anxiety, to feel in control, or to reduce stress, you may want to try yoga, meditation and breathing exercises to help.
Take a rest or schedule more rest days if you need to, especially if you are injured or dealing with an illness.
If you struggle with body image, get involved in a body image group to face your negative beliefs and replace them with positive ones regarding your body. A counselor, therapist or life coach can help you with this too.
If controlling your food intake, obsessions around food, or disordered eating is an issue, join a group related to food and eating issues. You can also benefit from the help of a counselor, therapist or life coach.

The sooner your recognize the problem, the easier you can work through it. You can enjoy a healthy amount of exercise without obsessing while also maintaining happy relationships, enjoying healthy food, loving yourself and living a balanced life.

Fitness Nutrition

“Let food be thy medicine.” -Hippocrates

While exercise is an essential factor to create health, to lose and maintain weight, to remedy diseases and to feel better mentally and physically, it is not enough. Good nutrition is absolutely essential to achieving optimal health and to experience the benefits of your exercise routine.

A healthy diet is mostly (or completely) made up of whole foods, preferably organic and mostly (or fully) plant-based with plenty of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, whole grains, pseudograins, beans, legumes, herbs and spices and is also free from processed food, processed sugar and artificial ingredients. This sort of diet is anti-inflammatory and alkaline for your body, enhancing recovery and health.

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