Couch Potato Secrets

Here is an interesting true story that would help us realize why we need to get healthy:

EDMONTON - Jim Jerome has been a pack-a-day smoker his whole adult life. He’s also a couch potato. “I’ve never even walked playing golf,” he says.

He’s sort of disgusted with his health, “but I’ve been able to get away with it for whatever reason. I don’t exercise, I don’t gain weight. I smoke, and my family has no heart disease.”

Then his 10-year-old daughter Sydney came home from school and told her dad that according to what she learned in science class he was killing himself by smoking and she wanted to know why? With teary eyes she also asked him when he was going to stop?

“I said ‘Dad, I’m worried,’ ” she remembers.

“That got me right in the guts, you know?” says Jerome.

“My kids are too old now not to understand what I’m doing to myself and it’s a joke to tell your kids not to smoke when you smoke.

“If I expect my kids to stay healthy then I’ve got to lead by example, otherwise they’ll become less active watching me, is the problem. It would be horrible if they smoked because they saw me smoke.”

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We may sometimes not know it but people close to us are affected of our lifestyle.  Wouldn’t it be a shame if your kid will be the one who would tell you that what you are doing is unhealthy or that is not the right thing to do?  Let us not wait for them to tell us that what we are doing is wrong.  As kids, we teach them the right things that they must do and believe.  Thus, we must also live with the things that we teach them and be a good example to them.

Exercise is not only for weight loss purposes or for body health.  It affects our mood and our well-being.  It helps us think more clearly and also feel good about ourself that it gains us more confidence.

For those who suffer with depression, they are more likely to convert themselves into a couch potato.  Hey! Be smart enough to get smarter!  Instead of isolating yourself, get yourself healthier and smarter.  Take time to exercise.  It will help you think better and get rid of depression.

For couch potatoes, get up and do some moves.  What we must really avoid here is laziness.  If you confess yourself to be a couch potato, be sure you are not the lazy one as what people perceive a couch potato is.  Once in a while, move your body, flex your muscles, and let out some sweats.  There is nothing wrong being a couch potato.  But have time to care for your health.  It’s not only for your body but for your brain as well.