Healthy everyday living… It’s just that, an everyday habit that has to become a lifestyle. Something embedded in your psyche that there are healthy food choices and that movement is essential to physical and emotional well-being.

You don’t have to follow trends such as banning carbohydrates, eating grapefruits for every meal or drinking protein shakes. Healthy everyday living is about making small steps that progress into strides toward meeting or exceeding your personal goals.

Set personal goals: Your own personal health and wellness goals may be about losing weight, fitting into those skinny jeans, maintaining weight or just feeling good about yourself. You need a clear mind when setting fitness goals, otherwise your body may be taken over by venomous, almost life-threatening, negativity that results in bad food choices, laziness and overall ‘blues’ emotions.

If you keep your body at absolute peak fitness, you will start to feel confident and happiness will seep through your pores. This is what makes us healthy.

Set wellness goals: This begins with ‘WE.’ Let someone into your life – a family member, a friend – to keep you on the straight and narrow path, even when times are tough. Struggles, just like with everyday life, are going to make an appearance as you work toward your goals.

Whether your struggle is in the shape of a plateau, or if it is deeper, such as disappointment, your motivator will be there, to remind you that you are doing a great job with a pat on the back or a shove to get back to class.

Set workout goals: Make the most of your workout. Group fitness classes are the perfect motivator – an instructor, leading and pushing you to push yourself. Fit in one hour of total body enlightenment, a ‘group’ effort that reminds you that you are not alone in your battle for health and wellness.

Find quality instructors: The instructors guiding your workouts should have the proper training and experience to give you an advantage to succeed in reaching and even exceeding your own personal health, wellness and feel-good goals. Find a fitness studio with an atmosphere and environment that is high energy and family oriented. For more information about SPQR Fitness Studio, please call 754-9411.