Your life should not be controlled by dieting and exercising.

You’re a fool if you think that everything revolves around dieting and exercise!

It’s true that for a healthy life you must make sure that you eat correctly and exercise enough to keep your weight under control.

But if you’re forever thinking about what you eat, what you mustn’t eat and worrying about that extra biscuit, then is your life worth living?

If you have to get up at 6am every day to go jogging, whether or not it’s blowing a gale and it feels like you’re living in a waterfall, then surely something is missing in your life?

You see, for me, going to work every day is what I need to do to get the money I need to live the life I want to. That is, I work to live. Other people simply live to work. Work is their life.

Similarly, eating well and exercising are things I do to help me live a happier and more fulfilling life. They are not meant to take over my life. Yes they become part of a successful lifestyle. But the important word is PART. They should not BE your lifestyle.

We all want to look good. We all want to be fit and healthy, but at what cost?

We need to blend our eating, exercising and all other aspects of our lives together. In other words we need to find a compromise between all the different parts of our lives.

In this way you can enjoy an extra piece of cake or the occasional one pint of beer too many without worrying about what they’re going to do to your body.

If you miss an exercise one day, you’ll know it won’t matter too much. You can always get back ‘on course’ the next day.

Your life path is a bit like taking a motor car trip from, for example, London to Edinburgh.

If you plan out your route before you start, you know exactly where you’re going and where to turn and which road to take from the start all the way to your destination.

But the best thing is that you can make detours on the way. If you learn about something that you find interesting on your journey, but it’s not on your route, you can make a detour. Then you can enjoy the interesting off-route experience and later you can return to your pre-planned route without any difficulty.

How does this relate to your change of lifestyle to accommodate healthy eating and intelligent exercise?

Well we all make mistakes. We all fail now and again.

What we must do is to work out why we made the mistake or what caused us to fail.

Find out what caused your overeating. Was it stress? If so, what’s causing that stress and what can you do to fix it?

When you find out the underlying reasons for your mistakes or failures, do your best to rectify them.

Then it’s time to get back to your life plan and continue your journey to a healthy life.

What is the point of living if you’re always stressed about what you’re eating or whether you’ve not exercised properly?

You’ll find that there’s just so much more to life than having a perfect diet and fitness plan. When your life, fitness and eating habits are working together in perfect harmony, you’ll find everything you do more enjoyable.

Food will taste better. Sleep will become more restful. And most importantly, you won’t be stressed all the time and a huge weight will be lifted off your shoulders.

You’ll have a healthy, fit and enjoyable life.