Health Advocate

aka do this to lower your health insurance.

The company that I work for, teamed up some time ago with a health insurance program. Don't get me wrong, health care workers should be healthy! How can you treat your patients and preach to them about good health, when you're not in good health yourself? It's a really big pet peeve of many people, to be told what to do by a hypocrite. Unhealthy people are all around, you don't need 20/20 vision to see that!

Take a look at the cafeteria in the hospital for starters. Everyday they put on a display of pretty unhealthy items to choose from. Standard cheeseburgers, fries, hot dogs, salad bar, soup, pizzas, you name it! I will say this, my hospital does make an effort to implement healthy food choices in the cafeteria. I get it, sometimes you just really want to eat garbage. 

I complained A LOT about having a health coach call me like once a week. It was a total pain in the ass, and wasn't at all necessary considering I'm enrolled in a program. This year I was surprised to see that they changed the method to their madness. I have a health coach online through the website, and we pretty much e-mail back and forth. She's pretty cool too. I went into detail via e-mail with her about the program I'm on, and we've decided to target our discussion around exercise. What I can and shouldn't do at the gym, how I should isolate specific muscles and tips for keeping toned. It seems pretty legit. 

It was difficult for me the past year or so, just because my health coach didn't really help me. All she did was call and talk to me for like 20mins at a time, and feed me a line of bullshit. I feel like Christine actually is listening to me (even though we just message back and forth). It's easier for me to just get down to the nitty gritty and the proof, is in the pudding. I'm steadily losing weight still, and she has confidence in me that I can lose another 20-25lbs by October! 

Basically what I'm saying, is use tools to your advantage! They might seem like a total pain in the ass, but they are there to help you. If you don't use it, you lose it baby! At least take a stab and try it out. You have to be serious about it to some degree though. If you're not really ready to change your life, there's no point. You have to mean what you say, and follow through! Use everything you can to your advantage and get onto living a better more fulfilling life! I promise, you won't regret it.