{"id":572,"date":"2024-09-27T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/?p=572"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:00:19","slug":"looking-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/2024\/09\/27\/looking-in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking in the\u00a0Mirror\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have just been alerted to the tragic news of the passing of a great friend. \u00a0It\u2019s terribly sad and he will be remembered for his amazing sense of humour, kind personality and somewhat wild ways!\u00a0 However I suspect he will also be remembered for his troubled history with drink and drug addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Already people shake their heads, tut-tut, and posthumously remonstrate his failings in this area. But I think as human beings generally it\u2019s too easy to point the slightly self-righteous finger. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you the person that goes to the same bakery and orders the same pie every morning for morning tea?\u00a0\u00a0Are you the person who drinks the same 5 coffees every day or keeps the day going with multiple cans of E-drink?\u00a0\u00a0Are you the person who comes home at night and opens the same bottle of wine and has the same 2 glasses over dinner, 7days a week, 365 days a year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that\u2019s you, understand that you\u2019re doing no less damage to yourself than someone who smokes anything in a rollie or abuses class A drugs \u2013 the only difference is the speed at which it kills you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly 1000 people a year die in NZ from drinking too much alcohol.\u00a0\u00a0You may think that\u2019s not you \u2013 and if you\u2019re reading this, then clearly it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But patterns become habits, and habits become addictions. Just because we hide them behind the veneer of \u201csocial status\u201d or \u201clittle lifestyle luxuries\u201d doesn\u2019t make them any less damaging,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why change?\u00a0 Well it\u2019s the realisation when we lose somebody close, that suddenly life was not all about me \u2013 it was more about the people around us and the people we care for, and that neglecting our health is administering perhaps the cruellest blow you could ever deliver to someone who loves you \u2013 deliberate self-destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what to do..?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take some time to make these 2 things happen\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) START doing the things you say you need to do.\u00a0 (We hear \u201cI know I should\u2026\u201d constantly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2)\u00a0 STOP doing the things you know you shouldn\u2019t be doing.\u00a0(We hear \u201cI know I shouldn\u2019t\u2026\u201d constantly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With small, consistent, increments you CAN make monumental gains to your health, wellbeing and weight, and in doing so change your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consistency is the key!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_nectar_blocks_hide_post_title":false,"_nectar_blocks_transparent_header_effect":false,"_nectar_blocks_transparent_header_effect_color":"light","_nectar_blocks_header_animation":false,"_nectar_blocks_header_animation_delay":0,"_nectar_blocks_header_animation_effect":"fade","_nectar_blocks_page_css":"","_nectar_blocks_page_js":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness-tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skymediatest.co.nz\/performancehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}