Do you struggle to get up and do some exercise in the morning?
Or do you find it hard to eat a healthy breakfast?
Here’s another good reason to do at least one and preferably both.
Starting your day with something healthy and good for yourself, makes you feel good about taking healthy action and, importantly, it makes it less likely that you’ll fall off the wagon and make less healthy choices later in the day.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that once you’ve started the day with a healthy choice you are less likely to undo the hard work by making a poor choice later in the day.
Whether it is exercising first thing, meditating or eating breakfast doesn’t matter. The key is to make the first choice of the day a healthy one. Such a choice gives you self-discipline that lasts well into the day.
While this is only a small thing, all the little things add up to making a life of healthy habits. And its the collection of all the little things that make the most difference in the long term.
So next time you are going out that for a meal at night, make sure you do some exercise early in the day. It might just give you the strength to hold back on that extra serve or last drink.
And why not make sure you do some exercise early on Christmas morning (if you haven’t got young children), just to give you that added will-power when you confront Christmas dinner!
Wishing you a merry Christmas.
