Am I Healthy? 7 Markers of Health that are NOT your Weight

It's NOT about your weight   We talk a lot in this podcast
about HEALTH being your goal instead of just weight loss being your
goal.  I am firmly in the camp that if you focus on increasing
your health, weight loss will be a great side effect of that if
your body needs to lose weight. ONLY focusing on losing weight all
the time does not necessarily make you healthy.   I could
point to a lot of people who look very thin on the outside but
inside are not very healthy. I could also point to a lot of women
who would, by a BMI chart, be considered overweight but are SUPER
healthy athletes.  So what does it really mean to be healthy?
  In my opinion whether or not you are healthy has 2
components: your experience of your body as healthy, and the hard
numbers.  How you experience your body, how you feel on a
daily basis, how your body is able to perform in the ways that you
want it to; that's all your subjective experience of your own
health. And that is different for all of us.  Then there's the
numbers: things like your blood pressure, fasted insulin, and
inflammation markers. Those are numbers that are more universal for
what's considered healthy or not.  They are super useful
markers for us to measure our health against, and they are way more
useful at giving us a picture of what's going on inside our bodies
that just looking at our weight.     The cool thing about
these 7 markers of health is that if you focus on trying to improve
one, you'll improve all of them AND your weight as well! What I
REALLY want is to set you free from being obsessed and fixated on
weight.  We've been so conditioned all our lives that we need
to be a certain weight but your weight is just one of TONS of
health markers and it's not super useful at telling us what's
really going on inside.  You'll be so much more empowered,
encouraged, and motivated if you focus on these seven factors
instead of just your weight.       XOXO Tara  
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