How Finance Class Helped My Health!

Last night I went to our weekly "Financial Peace University" class at church, which is presented by Dave Ramsey.  I'm not going to get into the specifics of the class, but it is eye-opening and well worth the cost and time.  But during the presentation last night he said something that caught my attention, and made me laugh. 

He was discussing financial mindsets and how our actions determine how our financial situation turns out.  His metaphor hit the nail on the head..."If I want to be skinny, I'm not going to eat what fat people eat."  And it got me thinking...

How many times a day do we justify our actions with statements like "if I only eat one it won't hurt me," or "if I skip my workout just this once it won't matter."  Stop and think about how many times you actually eat just one, or skip just one workout.  If you are the type of person that can honestly eat just one oreo, or skip just one workout every couple months, then kudos to you...and chances are you probably don't have a hard time reaching your health goals.  But if you're like I used to be, that one oreo turned into an entire bag, and the one skipped workout turned into weeks on end of not getting my butt off the couch.

Dave's financial motto is "Live like no one else, so later on you can LIVE like no one else."  I'm choosing to make healthy choices now because honestly, what could happen later on if I don't make those choices scares the living crap out of me.  I've seen too many people die of heart disease, lose their hair from  chemotherapy, or end up with type 2 diabetes because of choices they made earlier in life.  If you don't think the choices you are making right now, today, are affecting your life down the road, then you're just being dishonest with yourself.  And we all know how much I love honesty.  You can be mad at me all you want for making these statements, but please know that I'm being honest with you because I want you to succeed and be healthy!  If I'm not honest with myself, how can I be honest with you?

So the next time I think about chucking in the towel and sucking down the pint of Graeter's Buckeye Blitz, I'll think about all people I know that are no longer here because of bad health decisions they chose to make. 

How are you going to live healthy today, so you can LIVE HEALTHY later on in life?