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The health habit that helped me start a healthy lifestyle
The most useless (but true) health advice I got
If you’ve been following my story for a bit, you would know that I grew up overweight and that in turn had caused me to struggle with my mental health (or maybe it was vice versa?)
Regardless, I’ve come to understand that our mental and physical health are closely interconnected. And like many interconnected things, there’s a momentum to it.
The most useless (but true) health advice I got
Besides eating plenty of vegetables and getting regular exercise– tried and true health advice which also isn’t very useful if you’re struggling with your health (*human empathy matters when it comes to health, pure science often isn’t enough)– I remember my gym teacher sharing advice that I had no idea what to do with.
“The easiest way to be healthy is to stay healthy”
He announced it like it was the most profound thing you could share, but if you’re not healthy, what good is this information? I was young, overweight, and struggling at the time, and I had never felt less seen.
But reflecting on it years later, I began to understand what he was trying to explain, which…
