Isagenix – Most of us have experience directly or indirectly with diets that have failed. If you haven’t experienced it personally, you know friends or family members who have. And the reason that most diets fail is the same reason that treating illness instead of focusing on wellness doesn’t work. Fad diets and treating sickness are “band-aid” approaches to the problem, that don’t address elimination of the cause.
Fad diets can cause you to lose weight, but in many instances it’s at the expense of your long term health, and results are not long lasting. When you pursue a diet that doesn’t provide a long term lifestyle change, you are simply setting yourself up for disappointment or worse.
The only way to really address weight loss is to look at longer term lifestyle changes as your goal, and those lifestyle changes will involve more than just the immediate gratification of weight loss. You have to keep in mind that most of us are overweight because of a lifestyle of poor eating habits, nutritional neglect, lack of physical exercise, lack of proper sleep, and any number of other conditions that eventually lead to total health failure. When we engage in a poor nutritional lifestyle, we fail to fully understand the effect that those lifestyle choices have on everything else we do. We feed our bodies junk, don’t’ get proper exercise, fail to get adequate sleep, and then expect to be at peak performance at work, in school, and in life generally. We all understand that a car needs proper care to perform well, and we take great care to put the right gas in it, change the oil frequently, and get it tuned up as recommended, yet, we won’t perform these same tasks when it comes to the most important machine we own, our bodies.
Temporarily suspending poor eating habits doesn’t get to the real issue which is the need to embrace an approach to nutrition, and wellness that becomes a part of you, as much as anything else you do. We have previously talked about how habits, whether they be good or bad, are hard to break. If you are going to develop habits, you might as well develop good ones.
Now, all that sounds easy enough, and it makes perfect sense to those how really understand what’s going on. So, why is wellness such a difficult goal to achieve? Why is obesity such an epidemic in America? Why are heart disease, diabetes, and other diet related illness constantly on the rise? The answer is because the habits that lead to these conditions develop over a period of time, slowly and progressively, leading us to become comfortable with them and then resistant to change them. Remember habits are hard to break! Take a look at it this way. If smoking a cigarette would kill you tomorrow, do you have any doubt that fewer people would choose to smoke? They certainly wouldn’t be smoking very long! If eating fast food would kill you tomorrow, wouldn’t you be more focused on proper nutrition? Of course you would! But, it’s because the results of these “bad habits” do not manifest themselves immediately that we allow ourselves to be lulled into continuing the habits until one day it’s too late to reverse the effects of the choices we have made.
Human nature drives us to do what is comfortable for us, and that usually means engaging in behaviors that we have developed over a period of time, through lack of proper attention to our wellness. Sometimes these behaviors can lead to absolute addictions, like the junk food cravings many of us experience after a long history of eating non-nutritional foods. It’s not until the pain associated with continuing these poor habits becomes great enough that we develop enough resolve to do something about it, and unfortunately, that often means being on your death bed following a heart attack, or being placed on insulin treatment for diabetes, or being chastised by people for being overweight. Whatever pushes you over the edge towards change, it typically doesn’t happen fast.
In reality, wellness is not a difficult goal to achieve for people who can be honest with themselves. Most of us are very much aware that standing in line at our favorite fast food restaurant is not promoting any worthy personal goal, other than immediate gratification for a craving. And, if we are able to fast forward into our future, and see what those choices are going to leave us with 5 years, 10 years, even 20 years from now, we probably would change the way we do things today. And, that is exactly what we have to do. We must understand that the choices we make today will dictate what awaits us in the future. The ability to focus on that kind of thought process is what will empower you to make the choice to embrace healthy lifestyle choices immediately, and break the cycle of bad habits that have you where you are or where you are heading currently.
Making changes starts with recognizing the need for change, and then educating yourself on the things you need to do. This does not have to be a daunting task, because the time you invest in learning how to be a better you is the best investment you can make. Keep in mind that the time you put into being healthier, more educated, more fit, or happier in life, will benefit you in everything you do, and that is well worth the effort. After all, who deserves to be happy, healthy and wise more than you do?
Some of you may be asking yourselves “where do I start”. I felt that way when I first decided to make wellness a priority, because I have so many bad habits, I could spend a lifetime just deciding what to fix first. But, after talking with some other folks who were having success with lifestyle changes I found out that most of them had concentrated on wellness first, and here’s why. An effective wellness plan will not only allow you to regain your wellness, and lose weight, but will also allow your body to perform at its peak at all times. That includes restoring you to proper brain chemistry, which improves everything from your energy level, your mood, the quality of the sleep you get, to how you respond to life’s daily stresses. These benefits start to generate an “avalanche” of effective activities that result in improved clarity of thought, and an ability to progressively move forward in correcting other things that may be going on in your life. This avalanche opens up intangibles like increased self-esteem, improving your ability to stick with productive lifestyle choices like engaging in personal development as a way of life, instead of out of desperation.
Dr. John Gray, the noted author of the “Mars – Venus” book series recognized the role that proper brain chemistry plays in our health, and how it affects virtually every aspect of our lives. In his book, “The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution” he talks about the power of amino acid supplementation and its role in restoring proper brain chemistry. Dr. Gray was able to identify amino acid supplementation as a key factor accomplishing a number of very important personal goals for himself. While he was able to engage in amino acid supplementation from a variety of different sources, some of the sources were not practical for the average person. However, he eventually stumbled upon one that he found most effective and most practical and that was a nutritional supplement system called Isagenix.
After reading Dr. Gray’s book, Isagenix became the program that I, my wife, my father, my cousins, my best friends, and everyone who I know who is serious about wellness is using too. At the time that Dr. Gray found the Isagenix system, he was looking for a natural food supplement that would produce healthy brain chemistry, and he found that in the Isagenix system. Imagine his pleasant surprise to find that a very healthy bi-product of focusing on proper nutrition for the brain was weight loss. And that is exactly where other diet systems fail, because as we have stated previously, they don’t focus on total wellness and nutrition. Instead, they focus on quick fixes for weight loss. The reason that Dr. Gray found Isagenix to offer substantial benefits as a nutritional foundation is that it had the effect of reversing the bad habits that lead us to poor health. His personal experience with Isagenix was that the program not only helped him lose weight, but improved his mood, reduced food cravings, allowed him to sleep better, and ultimately all these things led to a higher quality of life, including better enjoyment of the personal relationships he experienced in life.
So, if you are looking to journey in a different direction in your life, start with taking better care of the vehicle that will carry you on every journey you will take. Start by paying attention to proper nutrition, and get the wellness avalanche working for you too. Successful on any other changes you make.