{"id":106,"date":"2008-03-26T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/changeyourbody.wordpress.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-03-26T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T11:30:46","slug":"health-and-fitness-for-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2008\/03\/26\/health-and-fitness-for-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and Fitness for the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life has revolved around sports and fitness for over 45 years. In many ways, that has put blinders on me in the ways that I experience the world. I am narrow minded in terms of what I eat and in terms of how I take care of my body, but that, it turns out, seems rather unrealistic in today&#8217;s world.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening, I had to go to the local Walgreens for batteries for Grace&#8217;s new potty (yes, these days they have to sing songs and do a myriad of other things). On the flashing sign outside of the Walgreens, it said, &#8220;Happy Easter&#8221; and then the words in bright red words changed to &#8220;Bud Light 30 pack $22.99&#8221;. Is beer a hot seller now on Easter Sunday or was that just a poor choice of sequence in their advertising?<\/p>\n<p>Next door at the McDonald&#8217;s there was no line at the drive up, but only because it was closed. Maybe McDonald&#8217;s closes on Easter because more people drink Bud Light than eat Big Macs. If I didn&#8217;t have such a narrow focus on health and fitness, then I would probably know these things, but I don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t drink, I don&#8217;t eat fast food and actually, just before I went to Walgreen&#8217;s, I had done Yoga X, making me even more weird.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s my point? I have been creating a theme each week for my blog and newsletter with health and fitness themes that I could think of that were important to me, but now I realize that with my tunnel vision, I was missing a lot of topics that people \tare really thinking about. So instead of themes like positive thinking or motivation or time management, I need to direct my readers to the topics and themes that are on the minds of most people.<\/p>\n<p>Now my blog will not just have ideas gleaned solely from resources in my &#8220;tunnel&#8221;, but instead, I will now direct you to the health and fitness news headlines that are impacting your everyday lives.  By doing so, I believe that I will enhance your knowledge so much more &#8211; and mine too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life has revolved around sports and fitness for over 45 years. 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