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Ok, we have all done it..thought some ridiculous diet would help us lose weight and KEEP IT OFF or had crazy ideas about how we should exercise. \u00a0I am not sure where these crazy ideas come from or why they become ingrained in our brains, but it seems during each stage of life there is a new way of thinking about how weight loss and getting fit should be done. \u00a0We have all fallen subject to them. \u00a0I have had my own crazy diet and views of exercise over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n

Starving Myself<\/strong>
\nMy earliest memory of these, unknown to my mother, was in the 10th grade. After gaining quite a bit of weight one summer while moving to a new town, I thought the only way to lose weight was to restrict my calories. My mother sent me off to school with lunch money only to spend it on a pack of crackers and a diet coke from the vending machine, all equaling about 150 calories of nothing nutritious.<\/p>\n

I later recall hearing and feeling my stomach growl continuously while practicing piano in the afternoon and staring at the clock wondering when we would eat dinner. Of course my mother was so proud that I inhaled everything that was on the table and saved no leftover\u2019s\u2026but I was famished!<\/p>\n

What I Thought About Exercise<\/strong>
\nAs a Kinesiology major in college I taught \u201caerobics\u201d (as it was called back then). But my one fitness ambition was to be a runner. It did not come easy for me, but I was determined to accomplish it. \u00a0I remember attempting to go for a run the fall before turning 21 years old and thinking, \u201cIf I don\u2019t condition myself to run a whole mile straight before my birthday, I will never get it. I will be getting too old.\u201d Ha! \u00a0(Did you laugh out loud reading that as I did?) \u00a0How crazy was it to think I would never be able to get in shape at an \u201colder\u201d age. \u00a0Today, at age 42 I think I could\u00a0run circles around that\u00a0young 21 year old girl.<\/p>\n

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My Point<\/strong>
\nTo truly learn how to have a healthy lifestyle, we have to develop a healthy mindset. \u00a0Romans 12:2 says,<\/p>\n

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Do not conform to the things of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your MIND so that the perfect will of God may be done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When we start my praying for God to transform our mind, we may have a new view of how we should eat and exercise to take care of them body He has given us. \u00a0And perhaps learn what good nutrition is and break the perceptions we have of exercise and view of self.<\/p>\n

With the right mindset and healthy way of living, I am happy to say I no longer follow a crazy diet and view of exercise. \u00a0I am curious: what is the craziest thing you have ever done and how have things changed for you? \u00a0<\/em>Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.<\/p>\n

In Good Health,<\/p>\n

Crystal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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