Doing Health vs Being Healthy

But today I actually want to talk about the difference between doing health and being actually healthy, because there is a line there and it's not the same thing.

The gap between them is where a lot of people can get lost and feel confused about what it actually means to be a fit and healthy person.

So that's going to be our episode for today, gang.

And here's what it looks like in real life.

You know, let's picture somebody takes their shot of apple cider vinegar in the morning.

Me, 2015.

Because it's healthy.

But then later on that day, they eat a ton of shit food.

They just eat crap, a load of nonsense, right? Or let's go something different, right? Somebody gets a lovely new pair of blue light glasses because they spend too much time on their laptop.

And all of a sudden then that night they're sitting there wearing their blue light glasses, but they're scrolling on their phone in bed for an extra hour instead of actually going to sleep.

But they feel like, you know, they had their glasses on, so it's protecting them from the blue light.

So it's not actually interfering with their sleep, but they reduce down the amount of hours they got anyway.

Or somebody does a cold plunge in the morning.

They do a dip in the in the sea.

They did a sauna in the evening time.

but they skipped the gym all week.

But because they hit their cold plunge and their sauna, they feel like, oh, but I did enough for my health this week.

I did my cold bath.

I did my sea swim.

I did my vinegar.

I wore my blue light glasses.

I am a picture of health.

I do not need to worry about anything else because I did all of that amazing stuff for my health.

Do you see what's happening here? It's the small, easy, trendy, new flashy thing that gives somebody a permission slip to skip the big, hard, boring thing.

And psychologists actually have a name for it.