Sixty seconds is what i have to commit to my writing to get going, yet I’ve let it slide. That’s the amount of time the writing app i use requires me to stay focused. If i don’t type for like 10 seconds, the preceding words disappear. One minute is usually enough to get the words to come if not the idea, and yet I’ve let it slowly slide away. Again I regroup.
People are clamoring. They want their old normal but they aren’t willing to risk it. They’re confused. Will I get sick? Was this all a weird dream? Was this an overreaction? What now? It’s maddening.
For those who haven’t been “touched” with someone close to them suffering and possibly dying over the last two months, reconciling your next move is tough. Mask? No mask? Go out? Stay in? Second wave? All the questions. I don’t have thise answers exactly but I do know one thing.
Being healthy is your protection.
Yes. Healthy people have died, but by and large, they haven’t.
Over the last 75 days we’ve all mostly felt out of control of our lives. You can control your health though. You can control what you eat, daily exercise, movement, and again we see it can save your life.
For 20 years I’ve made healthy living my battle cry. I’ve taken it to the extremes, sure, but I’ve lived it and tried to help others live it. I thought that I’ve been vocal about it, but apparently not loud enough. Prepare for me to be more insufferable.
This isn’t about fatphobia or running marathons and beyond. Its not about keto or a no carb/all carb/ diet obsession. It’s about baseline health. It’s about eating vegetables and cooking your meals. It’s about stopping the lies to yourself that anything from McDonald’s or Cane’s is good for you or your kids.
Covid-19 is a novel coronovirus meaning it’s relatively new and we haven’t built an immunity. You know what builds immunity? A healthy diet and exercise. Period. Will it protect you completely? No, but it’s the easiest thing to control
Turns out that most people who die form it have existing conditions. In 2017, 647,457 people died from heart disease, another 85,000+ from diabetes and 165,000+ from respiratory disease. None of those things are novel, and a giant chunk of them are preventable and all of them exacerbate covid exponentially.
We are all going to have to go outside and interact with people at some point. To build immunity. I’m not saying you have to disregard safety measures and be irresponsible, but it’s going to have to happen. Maybe in the meantime, you take a look at what you can control and give your immunity the best chance it can by adopting just one healthier measure.
A walk everyday helps battle heart disease. Eat more vegetables. Eliminate fast food from your diet. The list goes on and on.
Oh, and by the way. You know it already. Nothing in the above words is a newsflash. Yet we choose to ignore it because “Man, Chik Fil hass drive through down to a science.” They also have clogging your arteries down to a science.
So get ready. There’s going to be more of this. I have 2 businesses that my friends and I have worked for 20 years building. We’ve created opportunities for you to improve you life through goals, exercise, and eating right.
I’ve just not i invited you enough times and now I am doing just that.
Come run a FRESHJUNKIE Racing race in the fall. Come eat at FRESHJUNKIE or have us deliver it to you if that’s what you prefer. Join the FRESHJUNKIE Fit Club accountability group on FB and commit to 100 days of fitness. You can live anywhere to participate. You only need to choose to do so.
Come change your life.
It only takes a minute to start.
We are here to help you.
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