The Key Ingredient to Wellness

This Fall Whole Foods Market opened a new kind of health club in select cities around the country. For a couple hundred bucks plus $45 a month, you get a lifestyle evaluation, access to nutrition and cooking classes, and discounts on food sold in – you guessed it – Whole Foods Market.

That doesn’t sound like such a bad deal for those willing to commit to a healthier way of living. My question is, will these clubs include all the right ingredients?

Ask any fitness expert from Jack LaLanne on and they’ll tell you that the key elements in any fitness program include eating right and getting plenty of exercise. This is a winning combination that works for everyone – young or old, man or woman, committed athlete or weekend warrior.

But these days a lot more attention is being paid not just to what we eat and how far we bike, run, or swim, but what and how we think as well. According to weight loss expert, Katherine Brown, healthy living doesn’t come by human will but by a new and inspired view of who and what we are.

“If you’re trying to control your way to an outcome, who are you when you get there,” asks Coach Kath. “If you’re carrying all the same limiting beliefs and fears that you have now and you lose 20 pounds, who are you when you get there?”

Good questions.

Although I could be doing a much better job of maintaining that trim figure I once had, I recall one particular weight loss program that proved to be more effective than anything else I’d ever tried – one that began not with an evaluation of what I was eating or how often I was getting out on my bike, but what I thought about myself.

Article Author: Eric Nelson

I’m a Christian Scientist who likes to follow and write about trends in spirituality and health. I also serve as a media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Northern California.

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