When far too many challenges arises.

We are old told to meet the challenge face on but what if you’re already weakened emotionally by a chain of events. You simply want to lie in bed and hide.

Your will power is gone, your motivation is gone and oddly you just want to eat foods that will make you feel worse but your body craves them.

Your will power is gone, your motivation is gone and oddly you just want to eat foods that will make you feel worse but your body craves them. Comfort foods we call them. Why. We simply feel bloated, overly full and they are the farthest thing from what our body really craves.

The past three weeks Leaf has felt like that. He ate really poorly one week. A good friend made home made pasta. Leaf loves anything home-made but not his tummy. He is gluten intolerant but chooses to deal with the side effects simply to make his tongue happy. He likes an occasional glass of wine and well, maybe more that one. Dessert? Of course, we might as well keep the unhealthy habit going since know we’re going to suffer anyway.

Apart from physical impairments, gluten also makes Leaf depressed. Finally after three weeks feeling sorry for himself he got angry. Enough! Instead of surfing his instagram account first thing he got out of bed and stretched. One pose lead to another. He just let it flow. Not thinking, not analysing. He was simply in the moment. When he was done, he had been active for two hours and felt motivated and uplifted. He went for a walk with his favourite podcast pal Rich Roll talking into his ear. (They’re not really friends but Leaf likes to think they are.)

Breaking a habit takes only a moment. Developing a habit takes far longer. The neuroscience behind it is so complex. Listen to this podcast and kick yourself forward to a more active life/ (sounds like a really painful slogan).