When it comes to health and fitness, people tend to look for "the solution" to their ailments or "the step" to health and wellness. Basically, this comes down to laziness. It's a case of "okay, I acknowledge that I need to improve my health, and I guess I'm willing to do one thing to fix it, but that's it." The reality of the matter, though, is that there is no magic bullet. Health and fitness are not one-step, one-solution matters, and that kind of thinking is, frankly, foolish. Do you really think that the status of your health and fitness is going to do a complete 180 because you started eating some açaí berries?
It's much bigger than that. It is a product of all aspects of your lifestyle. To varying degrees, every single thing you do contributes to your health and wellness. To make sweeping change (in your health, fitness, etc.), you must make sweeping change in your life choices. The magic bullet mindset is a massive detriment to anyone who falls into its trap (and a massive money-maker for supplement, "health food," and drug companies who love to sell you their proprietary secret pill or powder or superfood to give you everlasting life and superhuman performance). This mindset keeps us bouncing between feelings of erroneous and misdirected hopefulness and feelings of resigned hopelessness: we enthusiastically try whatever magic bullet Dr. Oz or our friends' Facebook feed is featuring this month, find that it makes no appreciable difference in our life, give up on self-improvement, continue with our old habits and feel helpless and powerless, see an add for a new magic bullet, and wash-rinse-repeat.
I guess "take responsibility for your own health, make better decisions, and put in the hard work every day" just doesn't have the same selling power as "drink this juice and you'll be a living god!"
We all know that making massive turn-arounds is possible. We've all heard the stories of people who went from being obese and tumbling towards death's door to being healthy, active, and happy. We've all heard stories about recovery from disease, about turning life around and walking away from addiction, about regaining health and fitness against all odds. We know it's possible. We just need to accept and embrace that it takes more than a magic bullet. Big changes make big changes.
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