Imagine what it would look like and feel like to have your healthiest Fittest year! Really close your eyes and picture it. Get up in the morning full of energy, wide awake and feeling good. Imagine what it would look like in your favorite outfit. Do you see it? You can have it!

I personally do not make New Year’s resolutions. I do pick One Word to guide me through the year, (Build is my one work again) more about that later. I will as always continually work on my health and wellness, mind, body, and spirit. Having your healthiest fittest year is not easy so let’s make it fun. I know you can do it! We will help you and we will commit to doing it along with you.

Commit! Set your goals extremely high, Surround yourself with others with the same healthy goals, work harder than others your age and younger, GO MOVE THE WORLD!

Do these 8 things to have your Healthiest Fittest year!

1. Ask your self Why? Why is this important to you? Internal why might be less joint/back pain, to avoid cancer (its scary how many people I know with cancer:), or to have a healthier gut. External why might be to fit into the jeans you haven’t been able to wear or to not look puffy and bloated.

2. Have someone keep you accountable. It could be a family member, a friend or your trainer/coach. Make sure they have the same healthy goals and lifestyle mindset.

3. Just eat “Real Food”. If it has a label don’t eat it often. Eat fruit, veggies, lean protein, and good fats. Sign up for this blog and you will get a 60-page download, “Eat Cleaner Get Leaner” with everything you will need to eat to get lean and healthy.

4. Workout every day! No excuses, get up 10 minutes early, get out at lunch, do something after work. Everyone has at least 10 minutes. If you have a sitting job it is even more important for you to move. These workouts don’t always have to be hard, take an easy yoga class, take my Qi Gong class, take a walk in nature. Tips from one of our blog post.

5. Get an App. To help you to get moving download an app on your phone. My Daughter has one that sends her a message every 2 hours with a couple of exercises to do. She does them at work throughout the day. Some of the apps that we use are Tabata, Sworkit Workout, wahoo 7-minute workouts, and 30-day fitness challenge. If you get one let us know if it helps you to arbuthnotdrug.com.

6. Eat Superfoods. The more nutritious foods you eat the less likely you are to have cravings. Superfoods optimize your body’s ability to function by supplying a megadose of nutrients. Also, they improve the health of your skin and bones. Some superfoods are berries (wild berries get a star), coconut oil, collagen, local honey, greens (all kinds) spirulina, acai berries, sweet potatoes, wheatgrass, avocados, cinnamon, wild salmon and almonds are a few.

7. Get 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. Be in bed by 10:00 and sleep until 6:00. I know you hear this all the time but it is for your own good. I go to bed at 9:00 and get up at 5:00. It works great for me.

8. OK, if you do all that you can treat yourself. Maybe by a new outfit for the leaner you, you could do a photo shoot with me for my fashion blog:). How about a night out at a fancy restaurant so you can dress and feel good in your clothes, or maybe a trip to a spa or some special place you’ve been wanting to go.

Consistency is most important. Stop trying all the fad diets out there and just eat real food. Get out and move every day. Everyone can do this. Leave a comment below so we know you are all in.

To the Healthiest year ever!