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Health & Fitness

COMPETE TO BE HEALTHY

Competition can be heaklthy. Read on to learn how!

May 8, 2012

Are you competitive?  Do you hate to lose?  What if you could enter a competition in which you were guaranteed to win?  One of my patients has found the perfect competition.  Mr. X is competing with himself, and, as long as he keeps it up, he is guaranteed to win!

Actually, Mr. X is winning while he is losing.  Confused?  You shouldn’t be!  By competing with himself he is losing weight while gaining strength, endurance, and health!  Mr. X is using his MotoActv device to monitor his daily activity.  By striving to be more active on a daily basis, Mr. X is running a race in which he is his own opponent.

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Mr. X loves technology.  Mr. X’s Droid is capable of tracking his eating habits.  By tracking his daily ingestion, Mr. X can define what his dietary intake really is and then refine his diet, chicken stepping his way to nutritional health.  Mr. X is happy with his progress.

Taking pride in his weight loss and new physical prowess adds to Mr. X’s emotional account.  Sharing his success on Facebook and with his friends, Mr. X is setting a great example.  Mr. X has found his true “Wellth!” 

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I want to congratulate Mr. X on an amazing transformation from his former being into a state of health and “Wellth.”  “Diets and Other Unnatural Acts” teaches the concept of obtaining “Wellth” by first defining who you are and then working on refining who you are.  Learning to be the best “you” that you can be pays off big.  By letting technology help him, Mr. X has become a consummate competitor.

Become a competitor and get healthy.  Win every day by competing with yourself.  Can you take 10 more steps today than you did yesterday?  If so, you are a winner!  Can you eat 10 calories less today than yesterday?  You win!

On you mark, get set, ready, go!

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