Happy New Year! On this episode I'm tackling the classic "I don't have time" excuse head-on. You're about to be exposed to a different way of thinking on integrating health into your jam-packed schedule. Discover how to flip the script on aging and revitalize your daily routine with the art of planning and the power of choice—because when it comes to health, later is not an option.
Get ready to shake up your concept of exercise with easy, everyday actions that pack a punch. We're turning mundane tasks into health promoting opportunities—think stairs over elevators, and parking spots that are just a tad farther. I'll guide you through crafting habits that stick and setting achievable goals, proving that prioritizing your health isn't a Herculean task. It's about redefining what matters to you in the long run, making small yet impactful changes, and learning to nudge health up your priority list without upending your life.
And because each journey is deeply personal, I share how starting with just one gym session a week and prepping three lunches evolved into a transformative lifestyle change for me. Celebrate every tiny triumph with me and consider this your invitation to tailored one-on-one coaching. Your path to wellness is unique, and with the right support, you'll find that even the smallest steps lead to profound shifts in your health and happiness. So, let's create a legacy of well-being together—make sure to share these nuggets of wisdom and subscribe for more life-enhancing tips.
Happy New Year! On this episode I'm tackling the classic "I don't have time" excuse head-on. You're about to be exposed to a different way of thinking on integrating health into your jam-packed schedule. Discover how to flip the script on aging and revitalize your daily routine with the art of planning and the power of choice—because when it comes to health, later is not an option.
Get ready to shake up your concept of exercise with easy, everyday actions that pack a punch. We're turning mundane tasks into health promoting opportunities—think stairs over elevators, and parking spots that are just a tad farther. I'll guide you through crafting habits that stick and setting achievable goals, proving that prioritizing your health isn't a Herculean task. It's about redefining what matters to you in the long run, making small yet impactful changes, and learning to nudge health up your priority list without upending your life.
And because each journey is deeply personal, I share how starting with just one gym session a week and prepping three lunches evolved into a transformative lifestyle change for me. Celebrate every tiny triumph with me and consider this your invitation to tailored one-on-one coaching. Your path to wellness is unique, and with the right support, you'll find that even the smallest steps lead to profound shifts in your health and happiness. So, let's create a legacy of well-being together—make sure to share these nuggets of wisdom and subscribe for more life-enhancing tips.
Welcome to the Wealthy Generation Podcast. I am your host, naomi Jerez, your Bronx race, dominicana wife, mother of two new BFF and food and holistic health coach. I went from living a surface level healthy life to learning firsthand how to live my best life, rooted in wellness, and get my status back. Whether you're a wellness enthusiast, a food lover or simply curious about creating a healthier, more vibrant life, this podcast is your guide. We're going to dive deep into topics that will inspire you to make positive changes and elevate not only your well-being but those of generations before and after you. Stay tuned for exciting conversations, expert interviews and a whole lot of inspiration that will lead to action. Welcome to the Wealthy, wellthy Generation Podcast with me, your host, naomi Jerez. Hello friends, welcome back to WELLTHY Wealthy Generation Podcast.
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Now we are days away from the new year 2024. It really is crazy how time really does fly, and at first I was like I'm going to record an episode on New Year's resolutions because, you know, most of the time that's when people are thinking of getting healthy and joining the gym and changing the way they're eating and joining some sort of challenge or program, so on and so forth. But what really came to me on this topic, that time does fly and it being kind of a designated and very significant mark in time where we are starting a whole new year to talk about the concept that time is not waiting for you, and by that I mean if you are the type of person that makes a resolution of some sort or not. Really, that's not exactly what I want to say. What I want to say is if you are the type of person that thinks to themselves oh, I am going to do x, y, z when I have the time and, trust me, I struggle with the concept of time too and having enough time to get things done. However, I try and take action as much as possible. So if you don't take action at all and you're like when I have the time, I will start to eat better, when I have the time, I will pay attention to my health, when I have the time, I will move my body. I just have no time. So therefore, I'm not going to do anything at all.
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What I want to propose to you is that time is not waiting for you and therefore your health keeps on deteriorating If you're not paying attention to it. I would highly suggest and recommend and would want to point out that the things that you might be pushing to the side, not doing because you don't have time, I want you to consider how those choices are either adding to your health or taking away from your health, because what we want to do oftentimes is we want to so deeply take care of our health, but we make an excuse, and most of the time, the excuse is time, and I think it's a very valid excuse, to be honest, because there are so many things going on in our lives. However, something that I really learned in my health and wellness journey after all these years like seven years to be exact is that putting my health and the time that I need to take out for my health on the back burner does not serve any other thing that I want to do in my life, because your health is not waiting for you. Your health is going to do whatever it needs to do while you are waiting for time to take care of it. So it's not a one to one situation, and I feel like the longer we wait to pay attention and to take some sort of action to take care of our personal health, the longer the runway will be to kind of catch up, if at all possible.
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Sometimes we're able to catch up and kind of like reverse any sort of disease or health condition pain, bloating, like stuff that's going on. Most of the time we can reverse it. A lot of times we can reverse it, like 90% of the time we can reverse it, I can guarantee you because I've seen it over and over again. But if you wait too long, there comes a time where you can't quite reverse your health to be healthy and in a stable state anymore and therefore you. Luckily we live in a time where we have resources such as medication to help us live a more stable life once our body starts to give out.
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So if you are thinking that now, in this new year, this is your year, this is the year that you take control and action on your health and you start moving and you start eating better and you start doing all these things, I want you to plan ahead and kind of create a schedule for yourself or a timeframe or something as to when you are going to get these things done, when, so that you don't use time as an excuse. I want you to realize that it's kind of you against time, because there's really no stopping or reversing or like the aging process, like we're all going to age, whether we like it or not. One day, one minute, one second, one year at a time is just going to happen. But what we can do, it's slowed down the process and slowed down how we feel and even how we look. So you might be 40 years old, right, and you might not feel 40. You might not look 40. And, okay, you might have amazing genes. Let's mention that and throw that into the mix.
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However, what really makes a difference is how you take care of yourself. So if you take really good care of your body inside and out, then you will just have vitality, you will just feel better, you will just look better, and that is a big deal. I have a friend who's a health coach and she says that most of the time is not that somebody's old, is that they move like an older person because you start to lose your ability to move well, or your body starts to lose the ability to regenerate well, to regenerate all your skin cells and all your hair and everything like that. Your body is consistently making new cells, making new skin, hair, nails, all of these different little what's it called? Maybe hormones and cells and all that that your body needs to be here, be alive. It's consistently making new ones, and one of them like I'm not going to get to science here, but something that comes up a lot if you follow science research is like mitochondrial health, telomere length, like all these very specific words that if you're not like a biology geek and nerd like me, then you're like your brain is going to spin.
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But what I want to make clear is that your body, and just in the simplest form, your body, is always regenerating and how you treat it and what you feed it is going to have a great impact in that. So we invest a lot of money in our shell, right in our outside, and we invest in like, let's say, botox for wrinkles, and we invest in the vampire facials which I've done before and don't get me wrong and don't get it twisted, I have tried this like consistent facials and expensive creams and red light therapy and, you know, like these wood massages and this and that Great, I love to do that Amazing, keep at it. Sure, but what I really want to emphasize here is that you can have much better traction if you take care of your outside from the inside, and by that I mean the cell regeneration that's going on in your body, that's pushing itself from the outside in and that's regenerating. You can totally kind of take care of those things. If you give your body proper care and nutrition, if you move your body, if you feed it well, if you get rest, if you manage your stress right, if you're paying attention to those things your blood sugar levels, your gut health if you're paying attention to all those things, you will accomplish everything you're trying to accomplish by targeting the outside. And again, it's something you can do if you want to, especially if it makes you feel good.
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I definitely enjoy myself nice facials and creams and all of that stuff, but at the same time, I am very clear on the fact that that is not really the root or the core of the major impact or solution that you were looking for, and that's the part that I want you to be aware of. It's kind of like a tag team. Sure, your facial creams will keep you nice and moisturized and bright-eyed and I don't know, take care of your skin health. However, the plumpness of your skin and how nice and shiny it looks, and having no breakouts, and all that that's controlled from the inside out most of the time. Okay, so we back to this time concept. We find the time to do all these other things with going to these appointments and finding, you know, researching experts or professionals that can do these jobs very well which you should, and it's good and at the same time, we totally miss the point as to what actually is going to move the needle and keep it stable for a long period of time.
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So your time is much better spent thinking about what you're going to eat and when you're going to eat it, and how to properly fuel your body, how to properly feed yourself. Okay, it's not just I'm going to eat, anything is really thinking. Is what I'm eating going to help my body do its processes effectively? Because you will be kidding yourself if you don't think that everything you eat is either working to heal you and to keep you nice and healthy and safe, or is working to completely destroy your insights every time you put something in your mouth. This is the decision that you're making without even knowing it. So are you eating real food to support your kidneys and to support your liver and your blood and your brain and your joints and your muscles and your bones and all those things, or are you just causing? You're just dumping into your body and you're making it have a literal panic attack on the inside as to how is going to course correct all of this junk that you just put in there. So I recommend that your time spent is much more effective, even though it's boring, and it might seem boring and it might seem very basic to understand your food, to understand what you're buying, to understand what you're eating, to understand how to eat your food so that it gives you the energy that you're looking for, and you don't have to rely on outside things like energy drinks or excessive caffeine or like energizing whatever people take, I don't know, so that you don't have to rely so much on that and you can rely on actually learning how to provide your body with the energy that it needs, and the appropriate energy that it needs, so that it can rebuild itself.
Speaker 1:
Well, another thing is movement, and that's a big one. Everybody is like oh, I don't have time to go to the gym, I don't have time to work out, I don't have time to do XYZ Fair. I would think the same thing, and it was very difficult to find the time to actually work out. And by work out you can go to the gym if that's your jam. You can go to group some sort of group classes or specialized gym if that's what you want. But you can also work out in your home. You can also go for walks, you can also go for hikes, you can also dance. Like there are just so many things. That can happen in the in between is not just from zero to 100. Like you're now a body builder sort of person, right, there are many things you can do in between.
Speaker 1:
And what I tell my clients is we need to work on the habits of exercising. I don't care if all you do is go for a walk, I don't care. Like it's just as valuable. And I know that one of my recent clients asked me this is like what are we going to do with like an exercise schedule or like the like the strategy of what exercises to do? Because to be a well rounded person, I also think you need like a well rounded exercise routine and it is like very proven and all that. But I told her I said we cannot work on that.
Speaker 1:
If you are having a hard time sticking to exercising in the first place, it's sticking to movement. Like we can go ahead and expand later on for sure, but for right now we just need to build that habit. We just need to build that consistency. And if it's boring AF, then it's boring AF. It's okay to be bored and to practice that, because if you're not consistent in showing up for that habit that you're building, then it doesn't matter what the strategy is, it doesn't matter what your schedule of workouts are or is. You're not gonna do it because you haven't even built that habit. So I want you to think of this longer term journey and really starting small.
Speaker 1:
And the goal of it at the very beginning is just to build a habit of feeding yourself, because sometimes you don't even eat. It's just to build a habit of finding when you're gonna move. It's just to build a habit to realize that there's a lot more things that you can do to move your body than just taking the obvious. And, for example, by that I mean, like you can take stairs versus escalators or elevators. You can park further away from the supermarket or wherever you're going. If you're using public transportation, again, you can use the stairs versus escalators and elevators. You can get off one stop before or after your destination and just have a longer walk to wherever you're going, like. There's so many different ways to find movement and to make the time for that, and you know what.
Speaker 1:
To be real, real honest, sometimes it requires to downgrade the priority of something else, but I can bet money that you can downgrade something else that does not have as significant an impact on your health than reducing the priority of your health and wellness choices. Okay, because most of the time, whatever else you're reducing the priority on is not even alive. Like maybe that's the laundry doesn't get folded when you want it to, or your house doesn't get cleaned as often as you want it to. There's just. Or maybe you need to skip an outing and you need to really focus and double down on what you want for yourself and building these habits. You know there's.
Speaker 1:
I'm not gonna say that you won't need to deprioritize some things and move it down on the list, but I want to ask you, like, what really is the priority? Because you always, we always have to make a choice and we always have to pay the price somehow. So how are we paying that price as time goes on? Because it will continue to go on, as we all know, as time goes on, what price are you gonna pay and what are you gonna be okay with? So is the price that you're paying your health? Or is the price that you're paying that you know you need to wait another day or you don't clean your house fully like you want to, or the groceries I mean not the groceries, the dishes are there for a little while longer, right? So just really be mindful and really take a deep look as to what is it that you want to prioritize in this coming year, what is it that you want to consciously make time for and start setting those smaller goals for yourself and like a schedule for yourself that's attainable. So don't say from the beginning, in, like January, you're like oh, I'm working out four days a week and I'm gonna revamp my whole grocery list and do this meal plan and that meal plan, and so on and so forth. Be realistic with yourself, give yourself patience, give yourself time to build on these habits little by little, because if you overwhelm yourself from the get, you're gonna quit. I can promise you that, not because you suck and not because you don't know how to do this and you don't have any willpower, no, no, no. It's simply because you're human and this is how the human mind works. And if you are overwhelming yourself with so many different tasks starting off the bat and a lot of it, then it's so overwhelming that, yeah, all of us, every single one of us, will be like F this, I'm not doing that. So set realistic goals if this is something that you really wanna do.
Speaker 1:
And I'll give you an example when I first started my health and wellness journey, I would go to the gym once a week. That was it. Once a week, that's all I had time for. And I started after weeks and weeks and weeks, kind of meal prepping. I worked corporate at that time, in the office. This was pre-pandemic. I would prepare myself three lunches. Three lunches because I knew that first I didn't want to eat the same lunch every single day. That is the amount of time that I had to make three lunches, and it just took out the thought work of buying lunch outside. So, yeah, if you're hearing background noises, my kids just got home from school. So if you're here yelling in the background, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:
Anyway, instead of thinking of New Year's resolutions, which obviously you can do you can do that if you want, and if let's say, let's play with that. Let's say, your New Year's resolution is really to get yourself in better health, then I would think of a more concrete plan as to how you're going to accomplish that in a very small, tangible step. So maybe that's researching where, what you want to do or where you want to go. Maybe that's buying yourself new workout clothes so you can feel all cute. Maybe that's starting to incorporate one vegetable in your meals throughout the day. Maybe that's looking for support, like hiring a health coach or going to your doctor and getting your physical done and getting your blood work done. That's easily as important.
Speaker 1:
So pick one area where you want to get started, list out your other goals that you have and really have the mindset that no one is waiting for you. Like, time is not waiting for you. Right, your health is going to keep doing whatever you kind of destined it to do, more or less right, and obviously, like this is just speaking. Like we, none of us knows what's going to happen in the future, right? However, what I can tell you is that you will start to feel better. You will start to feel better in your skin. You will start to look better. You will start to see these wins. That will get you closer to the goals that you want.
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And, trust me, the best part, the best part is keeping the promise to yourself. Like damn. I promised myself that I was going to eat better, and I did, and I have, and it feels good. I promised myself that I was going to move my body, and I have, and I continue to, and I'm feeling better. Never discount those super small wins, because what actually keeps you motivated and inspired is the fact that you are trusting yourself and you're not letting yourself down. It has nothing to do with anybody else outside of you.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so I hope this was a helpful kind of rant and different way of looking and thinking about a New Year's resolution, just knowing that we make all these plans in the beginning and then they kind of fall out because we don't take a deeper dive as to why we want to do it, how we want to do it and really creating the space for them, right. So I encourage you to think about it that that way. Pick one thing I really hope that it is your health, and that can be kind of like the grounded, the grounded source for every other goal that you put that you set for yourself, because if you're not feeling well, if you're not doing well, then it's going to be pretty darn difficult to do anything else with your life, whatever goal. That is because it kind of sucks to do things when you are not feeling well. Just think of the times where you've had to push through, you're not feeling one, you have to go to work and you have to show up for loved ones or whatever it is. It sucks. So how about you show up to all your other goals, feeling amazing, living your best life rooted in wellness? All right, think about that, my love. Okay, I'm wishing you a very blessed, happy, peaceful, joyful, healthy, wealthy New Year.
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If you know that in order to accomplish your health goals, you're going to need one-on-one support, I welcome you and I invite you to book a consultation for one-on-one. Food and holistic health coaching for six months is going to be totally personalized to you your lifestyle, what you like, what you don't like, and we are going to take this journey at your pace so that never again will you have to start again from zero. That just does not happen with my program and the way I teach and coach my amazing clients, and I do really want that for you too. If you're scared, I got you boo. I know it's scary, but at least give yourself the opportunity to have a conversation. That is absolutely free, it doesn't cost anything to you and it will give you more clarity, whether you want to work together or you want to try something else. But guess what? You're already winning because you have some sort of clarity and you took some sort of action. So again, I invite you to book a consultation for one-on-one food and holistic personalized coaching for six months, and I cannot wait to chat with you in the new year. I hope you have an amazing holiday. Bye.
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