A natural view of high deposits, few withdrawals
Health and fitness maintenance is a lot like your personal checking account. They both operate primarily off of deposit and withdrawal concepts. If you are able to sustain a positive checking account balance but have found it difficult to attain the health and fitness status you desire you may want to start applying the same logic you use in maintaining your checkbook to your personal health and fitness.
Your health and fitness are totally the result of how many deposits and withdrawals you make regarding your body. For instance, eating a healthy meal and taking a walk afterward could count as two deposits. Eating a big mac, fries, and a shake and doing nothing active afterward would constitute withdrawals. Just like checkbook activity deposits and withdrawals come in all difference sizes. The checkbook is more black and white in terms of keeping track of the balance, however, if one just applies some common sense to their health and fitness factors it is not that difficult to keep track of. The key indicators are how you feel and how you look.
Following are some examples of how personal health and fitness situations often resemble a checkbook and how recognizing these similarities and applying them to health and fitness may be able to help you improve your overall health:
- The more you put in the more you are able to take out. The better you eat and more active you are, the more you can afford to let loose and splurge on occasion. Keeping track of the health and fitness balance is not difficult just ask yourself how you feel and take a look in the mirror. One key to maintaining a good health and fitness balance is to not waste everyday routine occurrences by eating high fat low nutrition food. Save those situations for special occasions when you can get more enjoyment out of it.
- If you try to take more out than you put in trouble will happen. If your priority is to always eat more and exercise less it doesn’t take long for your health and fitness level to slide. You may be able to cover up the “I feel lousy” impact but unless you are a master dresser you likely will not be able to hide the physical downsides.
- The greater the balance the better you feel. Learn how to live with that feeling. Don’t get into the bad habit of making withdrawals shortly after a deposit is made. Go ahead and build up the balance and enjoy the security it provides.
- Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of the balance. I see this situation all of the time. If you watch people closely around food, especially those individuals not in the best of shape, they will often have a look in their eye that tells you they are totally not thinking of what they are eating. These same individuals, at another time away from food, can tell you how hard they work at their diet and physical workouts. It is not that difficult to keep track of what you eat and your activity level. Again, it comes down to your level of self consciousness. Just recognizing and believing that you may do things somewhat unconsciously is a great start to getting a more accurate picture of what you eat and how active you really are.
- Others sometimes want to make withdrawals from our account. Your boss, your relatives, and even your friends can often do or say things that have a negative effect on your health and fitness by placing demands on your time or causing you stress. Both of these factors can negatively affect your health. Another is providing you with bad health and fitness information, even though their intentions may be good. Even sabotage can come into play when a jealous friend attempts to get you off track so you will not be in better shape than they are. Often just in fun, but the consequences are still the same.
- Seldom does anyone else want to make a deposit into our account. Unfortunately this is a symptom of the “me-first” society we live in. The way to avoid a problem here is to not count on anyone other than yourself to take care of yourself, whether it be financial or health related.
- It is a lot easier to make withdrawals than it is to make deposits. Make sure you are getting the bang for your buck. Never take a withdrawal for granted. Appreciate the experience of good food and drink, and savor the moment.
- At times people may maintain a higher balance than they actually need. Hoarding money and being a scrooge can be similar to being a diet and exercise freak. Don’t ever get so caught up on being healthy that you are never able to capitalize on the benefits you have earned. The primary function of money is to spend it for good value and the primary function of food and drink is to enjoy them and have fun.
- Current balance primarily reflects an individual’s personal decisions, not good or bad luck. There are certainly some exceptions, however for the most part people create their own life’s situations. Dedication and hard work will have a positive effect on one’s checkbook and one’s health. A person that accepts and understands their health and fitness status results from decisions they made is light years ahead of someone who instead makes excuses.
By viewing your health and fitness in terms of deposits and withdrawals it brings attention to what needs to happen for an individual to attain their health and fitness goals. It doesn’t happen by way of fad diets or trick pills with magic ingredients, it simply happens by making more deposits than withdrawals based totally on decisions you make.
Feeling good and looking good does not have to be complicated. But, it does require ongoing attention, just like your checkbook.
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