3. Non negotiables: what foods are you not willing to give up? Make space for those in your diet. (If you want a chocolate at the end of the night, make up for that during the day.)
The best diet is the one you can follow consistently. Easy ways to start:
1. Decide: What food do you actually like? Not the ones that are trendy...(cont. below)
Contrary opinion? Working out just to look good, and not for health at all, isn't a bad thing.
You get healthy anyway... The reason really doesn't matter.
5. Manage stress —start with 10 minutes a day focused on something that makes you happy and calm (a walk, meditation, yoga practice, playing chess, etc)
@drgurner Endurance runners talk about the pain cave - they look forward to the pain.
That's what makes the best competitors in any field - the ones who endure life's hardest moments, they embrace the challenge.