I recently took a survey to earn some HSA money from my insurance and apparently I'm OVERWEIGHT!
Oh no!... So anyway...
I knew going in that it would be inaccurate because, you know, insurance always knows what's best! (sarcasm)
"Healthy weight" is almost an oxymoron. Weight shouldn’t be the metric for health. “Healthy weight” is a range because it varies from day to day; how much water you drink, whether you pooped, how much sleep you got, even what time of day you eat.
Having more tangible, personal, and unique descriptors for your vision of health is what leads to a healthy mindset, which opens the door for intuitive, realistic and sustainable healthy habits.
When I competed in kickboxing, I was dangerously fixated on making weight. Unfortunately, every fight where I shed extreme weight, I lost. It took too long to realize I was wasting all of my hard-earned training just to fit into an arbitrary category. Not to mention I got a little bit beat up. Maybe more than a little...
Do you ever feel like you've been scarred trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal?
These days my health goals are related to things I want to be able to do:
Pull family out of burning building
Carry tired, cranky toddler
Lift heavy a** weights
Fight my way out of angry mob
(...you know, Warrior things!)
So anyway, thanks, insurance company, for telling me I'm overweight. Thanks to everyone who has no right to tell me how much I should weigh or how I should look. Special shout out to the "gym sharks", or whatever, trying to sell me pre-workout and energy drinks on social media.
I have never had, nor do I think I will ever, have six pack abs. I am easily 20lbs over "fighting weight" but I'll gladly throw down if necessary.
What about you?
What is your current picture of health or fitness?
How practical are those ideals and how do they fit into the kind of life you want to live?
Is there any bad advice that it's time to let go of this year?
More importantly, what can RMF do to help you get there?
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