Kim Lyons - 5 Essentials of Good Health

So I have five P's to proper or to good health. The first one is proper exercise. Make it fun. If you don't like to run on the treadmill, don't run on the treadmill. If you don't like to do something, there are 5 billion ways to move your body. Tap into your inner kid. What did you like to do when you were little? Think about those things and go back and do them. Make it fun for yourself. Live. This is actually a bike ride that we did and I went rappelling and yeah, we got stuck in the mountains. It was for 16 hours, 300 foot drops. Amazing. We came out at 3 in the morning. Gunter almost killed me, but it was great. And that was a bike ride I did with the Best Buddies Charity Foundation. And it's actually kind of a funny story. They asked me if I wanted to ride the whole race and I was like, yeah, it was 100 miles along the coast. I thought it would be a beautiful, awesome day. Turns out they were like, no, we need you to be at the stops to just greet people and, you know, cheer them on. I was so bummed. I was like, oh, I don't get to ride. Great. They're like, oh, you can ride the last 20 miles. It turns out okay. This. They're like Lance Armstrong people. I mean, I got to the start line at 5 in the morning. People were like, geared up. I'd have been like on my beach cruiser going, ready to go. Thank God it worked out. But anyway, I rode the last 20 miles with the Shriver family in Arnold. It was really cool. Riding bike next to the Shriver family. God, they're normal. I don't get it proper. Wait, I'm not going to touch very much on this one. You guys just get there. Stop trying and get there. That's it. That's all I'm going to say about that. Proper rest. Oh, and by the way, I wrote a book, so it was just a lot easier to pull pictures from the book than to go on Istock photo. I mean, I spent like hours on there. So I don't love myself that much. It was just that easy for me. Thought I'd throw that out there. So anyway, that really is my bed. That's really hard. My pajamas. And that's my dog, Harley. So proper rest. I love what Vision said yesterday. He doesn't set an alarm clock. He just lets his body get as much rest as it needs. For the first time in my life, I'm able to do that. And that's how I Kind of know. I think I'm there. When he said that yesterday, I was like, wow, me too, Me too. I get to do that. I used to set my alarm for like three in the morning, get up and drive two hours and go, you know, pound people into the ground every day for a living. And I'm like, wow. I get to sleep now. Sometimes I get up at six, sometimes I get up at nine. Sometimes I don't go to bed till one and I have a baby now. I don't go to bed sometimes at all. But you know, proper rest is really important. Take a nap if you need to. How great is this photo for? Can we just take a minute and look at my dog Harley? She really just struck that pose. Love it. That's her Halloween costume. It was too small for Gunter, so I had to put it on Harley. Proper attitude. The best thing I like about attitude is it is contagious. I work with a lot of overweight people and they come to me and they're like, well, my family doesn't support you or support me. And I'm like, what do you mean? They're like, my family doesn't support me and my goals. They sabotage me. And this is the best advice I can give anyone. When you really believe in something, somebody else will too. So if you sit down at a table with somebody who is trying to lose weight and they're like, yeah, I'm having the salad and water, what do you think is going to happen? Everybody else at the table is going to go, well, that sucks. I'm having the french fries. Oh, why would you do that? You're no fun anymore. I've heard it all. Because I was that girl at one time when I was dieting for shows, I'd be like, yeah, I'm having a dry can of tuna and vegetables. That's what I eat every day, all day, non stop. And I didn't embrace it. Whereas if I would have said, yeah, I'm doing this fitness competition and it's amazing, I have complete control over my body and I'm watching myself just sculpt and it's really cool and my workouts are awesome and I love it, everybody else would have jumped on the bandwagon with me, but instead they're like, oh my God, she has to eat tuna and vegetables every day. I'm not doing what she's doing. And it doesn't have to be that extreme, but just try it sometime. Order that side salad with the most enthusiasm that you possibly can and watch how many people follow you. Whereas if you order it with a bad attitude, nobody else is going to order that. They're going to order the onion rings triple size. So just have a good attitude about what you're doing and be thankful that you can eat healthy and that you can exercise proper nutrition, which pretty simple. But I'm going to give you guys five keys and I promise you if you follow these, you will be on track. There is so much bullshit dieting tips out there and there is no way to sugarcoat it. I mean, I, I'm a trainer and I listen to some of these diets and I'm like, what? Don't eat fruit, don't eat grains, don't eat nuts? I mean there's just thousands of different diets that just try and tell you not to eat this food. Where's the don't eat processed crap diet? Where's that book? I'm going to write it.