Hi, I’m trainer Ben Duborg at Sculpt Fitness in Farmington, CT.  I try my best to live a healthy life – which is of course a slight matter of opinion. With so much marketing and allure around unhealthy foods & the commonness of sedentary lifestyles it’s not easy to embrace a healthy lifestyle. But why should you? I think the reasoning behind why can be summed up very quickly with two simple facts.

First off if you’ve never lived healthy and have kept your physical and mental health in the dark or have made excuses why you can’t live a “healthy life” you’ve never truly lived. Keeping your body in poor physical condition has very serious consequences. A lack of exercise or constant eating of processed, high fat or high sodium foods makes you feel bad – and you may not even realize it! Your body will always be at constant health risk for many conditions or diseases – most of which would be preventable like heart disease, type two diabetes, or even cancer which can be all be prevented with living a healthy life.

Secondly, your mind needs to be stimulated and exercised as well. Choosing a healthy and active lifestyle helps stimulate your brain. This stimulus helps chemical productions in your brain and body stay balanced and constant. Commonly, people that choose a sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle can have spouts of depression and lack the motivation to take on the simplest tasks. They can get stuck in a downward cycle as their hormones (or lack thereof) get the best of them. Couple this chemical imbalance with the poor foods and lack of physical activity and its truly a recipe for disaster.

So with just these simple two reasons that are compelling on their own I hope we all can choose the road less traveled, yet far better for you. You really don’t know what you’re missing or how good you can actually feel once taking control of your diet and exercise plan. Get the blood flowing and get fresh real ingredients into your stomach and it is life changing!! I say choose the healthy life and develop yourself into the best person possible!