January 11 

The building of a whole new lifestyle is based upon the exact construct that each of us used to arrive at the lifestyle that we are living today.  As we look around our lives today we discover that we typically do things the same way every day, day after day.  We awaken at a certain time, we go to bed at a certain time.  Go to work, we come home, we have dinner, we have entertainment patterns that we engage in each evening, and then at the end we all typically retire at the time that we are most comfortable with.  The next day it all begins again.  Embedded in that day of expressed habits developed over years and decades, are our activities related to routine exercise (or lack of routine exercise) and our eating habits.  Each of those things combined make us what we are physically, mentally and define the overall state of our health.  Therefore to bring about a true, permanent lifestyle change, we each need to examine every aspect of our life and determine which parts need refining, changing and even getting rid of things that are not healthful.  Therefore in order to construct a such a lasting change, we need to first analyze our old life, plan for the new life that we wish to have and then finally go about changing our daily habits to make a lifestyle change actually come to pass and to make it permanent.  Forging whole new habits and getting rid of old habits is not easy and it takes time.  It also takes long term personal commitment to progress and to guaranteeing a healthier tomorrow.  It all begins with that personal decision to redirect our lives and while it is not easy it is the most rewarding thing in any human existence.