@circusmobility posted this quote a while back and I 💜 it: “Easy often has be earned.” While we’re referencing completely different things here, I couldn’t agree more. When I look back on my health choices over the course of my life, the “shoulda”, “coulda”, “woulda”s never get me very far. They also don’t make it me feel very good...because I’ve grown exponentially and have come a longgggg way since drinking nothing but sweet tea, kool-aid, sodas, and alcohol. It’s taken one positive but difficult change, choice, and mindset shift at a time to get to where certain avenues are now easier for me. But that shit was not easy and hydration is a small sliver of the pie chart that makes up our health. The gates of “health and wellness” swing with subtle judgments, and they always will. Are we in or out? Will we ever be clean enough, pure enough, or good enough? Grasping the concept of health is overwhelming, scary, and down right confusing to those who are just entering these gates. I’ve had to unlearn every crap piece of nutritional advice that I’ve taken from the PhD bro who’s never glanced at a piece of research that included female physiology and yet never let me forget that they have a PhD to hold my attention... I had to abandon the exercise plans from the perfectly sculpted disordered eater with a frozen forehead, fake tits, and liposuctioned abdomen telling me if I simply ate less and worked out more, in 28 days my body would become a “beach body”... What do these folks know about health and wellness and what it means to me? I had to find my own definition and I encourage you to find do the same if you’re trying to improve your overall health. My advice (if you want it): Mindset is a big aspect and it has to be addressed by identified your roadblocks. Find what’s true for you. Run everything through your common sense filter, does it make sense for YOU and your body? Lastly, don’t forget to ease in to these lifestyle changes if you want the good habits to last forever. Rome wasn’t built in a day but you are a masterpiece worth working on. Work for the things that matter to you most, the things you desire to be easy, because they will be some day. 💋