Wrapping Up
You did it! You’re now officially healthy!... Probably not, but you’re definitely on the right track.
Getting all the pieces of this puzzle together and building lifelong habits is the hard part. You’re used to your current morning routine and way of eating. You have a pantry full of food that you shouldn’t eat. You think you don’t have time for everything!
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. - Henry Ford
Change is uncomfortable but comfort is the enemy. Your bad eating habits, poor sleep, and lack of exercise got you into this mess. COMFORT got you into this mess. It’s easy to roll through a Mcdonald’s drive through and get a Big Mac. It’s comfortable to sit on the couch and binge watch Netflix after work. It’s fun to stay up past bedtime and play one more level in Call of Duty. But these things aren’t taking you anywhere.
The nice thing about focusing on one area to improve is there is a snowball effect.
Do more, be more - Mark Bell
The more you do, the more you can do! The more you put on your plate, the more room you have to put more on your plate. It breaks the laws of physics but when it comes to personal development, you’ll soon find out it’s true.
Going from 6 hours of sleep a night to 8 hours of sleep a night might look like you’re losing 2 hours, but what you’ve lost in time you’ve more than made up for productivity. Taking 10 minutes to meditate seems like 10 minutes of sitting around, but you’ll be less distracted by intrusive thoughts and feelings that pull you away from the task at hand throughout the day.
The list goes on and on but every single one just builds on the next. You sleep better, your workouts are better. You have better workouts, your sleep is better. You eat better, your sleep is better. Your diet and sleep is better, you lose more weight and gain more strength. Name any piece of this puzzle and you can link it to any other piece of the puzzle. The more one is dialed in, the more they are all dialed in.
Recap
Diet
- Focus on eating (red) meat
- Cut grains out of your diet and reduce carbs generally
- No seed oils. Cook with butter, tallow, olive oil, coconut oil, and palm oil only
Exercise
- Lift weights or, do resistance training of some kind
Lifestyle
- Walk for 10 minutes 2-3 times a day
- Get sun on your skin
- Focus on getting 7-9 hours of sleep every night
- Meditate daily
If you do these things, in 30 days you’ll be a completely different person. Obviously, there is more you can do but we’re just getting started. There are the topics of hydration, electrolytes, organ meats, fasting, types of training, running, etc. but this is a great start.
Be on the lookout for a troubleshooting section in the future. Some things will come easy. Others won’t. It could take a few weeks to get used to the diet. You could be very sore for days after your first workout. Remember, it’s ok to play around with things at first and do what you’re capable of. Don’t “take it easy and quit if it doesn’t go well after 12 hours.” Habits take time to build and change is hard. But you’re not looking to be average, live in pain, or die at a young age because you wanted to eat Micky-D’s and watch Netflix.