Health every day

The last way I would describe myself is as a health nut. Because of the way our society views health, exercise and weight and because of all the misinformation and blatant lies out there, I have a love/hate relationship with exercise. I would love to exercise more, but I hate feeling like I SHOULD exercise, so that paralyzes me sometimes. The dichotomy between wanting to do something because I want to do it and feeling like I have to do something because society tells me I should and therefore I refuse to.

I have a love/hate relationship with dieting. I hate dieting and I love to rag on people to advocate it because they are morons.

That notwithstanding, I understand the importance of health and I try to be as healthy as I can. I may not belong to a gym [disgusting places!] or count calories [I've got better things to do!] but I have a long list of healthy things I do or [don't] as the case may be. My new goal is to make a better effort to do [or not do] these things or more than one of these things every day.

For instance the givens are:

I don't smoke, never have.
I don't do recreational drugs because I like my brain cells and want to keep them.
I drink very little alcohol. [Maybe not enough?]
I take long walks.
I meditate.
I like to laugh.
I have pets that bring me joy.
I have hobbies that calm and center my mind.
I'm creative.
I like food that is good for me.
I try to keep a positive attitude and reduce my personal stress.

So today's healthy thing was a protein shake for breakfast, my usual light lunch and a sauteed chicken breast and a salad for dinner. Fruit for dessert. None of this was 'perfect' on the let's be obsessive about our healthy habits scale, but it was good. And good is good enough.

Yesterday, I got some sunshine and a I took an afternoon nap.

Tomorrow I don't know what my healthy thing will be, but hopefully I'll be able to find one that's above and beyond the givens listed above.