No More Excuses! 10 steps to getting you on the "health train"

I am sick and tired of my fellow African Americans making excuses for being overweight. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard that it just runs in the family. "My mother is overweight, My father is overweight, My grandparents are overweight....therefore, I'm overweight." Guess what! Your parents and grandparents and YOU are overweight 'cause you all are eating the wrong things.....and too much of it! That is why I decided to start this blog.

This blog however, is not being written for the purpose of making anyone feel bad or guilty, so I am laying down the 10 steps to get you started. Hopefully after reading this introductory article there will be "No More Excuses Please"!

10 steps to get you mentally started in making a healthy lifestyle change:

1. Admit and recognize that you have been eating wrong.
2. Take full responsibility for your action. (of putting the wrong foods in your mouth)
3. Seek help and guidance on how to eat properly (as well as how to shop for food properly).
4. Figure out what you need to avoid (or who you need to avoid) in order to stay on the right path.
5. Surround yourself with people, activities and things that will support the life and health that you are trying to achieve.
6. Avoid unhealthy thought patterns that will put you back on the road to "health destruction".
7. Take the time to love, encourage and accept yourself for who you are.
8. Tell yourself that you are worthy of becoming a better you.
9. Allow yourself room to fail so that you can forgive yourself and quickly get back on the "health train".
10. NO MORE EXCUSES!!!