Focus on Inner Health, Not Outer Appearance Posted by Andy Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:41:00 GMT

I won’t get too deep and spiritual on you but this is really important.

Try not to judge your health by the size of your biceps or how skinny your waist is. Body builders and cat walk models are amongst the unhealthiest groups of people in the world and are not what you should aspire towards. Instead try to become more aware of your physiological indicators.

How well do you sleep at night? As a general rule, people who exercise regularly and eat well sleep a lot better then sedentary junk food eaters.

How laboured is your breathing when you walk up stairs? It is not normal/healthy to be gasping for air after 2 flights of stairs. It might be time to get more active if this is you.

Do you find you are often tired during the day? If so this could be due to lack of sleep at night, poor diet, poor fitness, or most likely a combination of the three.

It is fine to keep track of external measurements such as your weight and waist measurement but remember that these are not the most important indicators of health. A quick fact to drive the message home – fit, active, overweight people have a lower incidence of heart disease then sedentary, unfit, thin people. Your inner health and fitness is more important then your outer appearance.