Not a diet book (rather guidelines). Not an exercise regimen book (rather movement of your choosing). Not a meditation instruction book (rather calming and relaxation techniques to use if you choose to).
So what is it?
A powerful investigation into behavior change and habit formation with examples and suggestions that you can use to achieve your best, healthiest self.
The three tenants of the book, menu - movement - mindset, encapsulate the very essence of a well-lived, meaningful, and healthy life.
Sick to fit takes a deep dive into not only making our own choices about how we choose to eat for health, and how to incorporate movement into our daily lives (things that we know or have entertained), but moves beyond our superficial decisions (which we have likely already made) to habit formation. We know we'd like to eat well (what ever that looks like for us). We know we’d like to move more (or at all) to stay healthy, and get fit. What we don’t know / understand is why we can’t seem to gain traction, ‘fall off the wagon’ or, in some cases, get started in the first place.
This book takes the reader/listener through very vulnerable journeys of 'sickness', growth, stumbling blocks, and health gains. It provides very simple, well-tested, well-researched tools to help anyone (no matter what their current capabilities) shift their mindset, set simple goals, choose a direction, course correct as necessary, learn from set-backs, and gain traction on their journeys from sick to fit.
On a personal note, prior to implementing the tools in this book, I was on near bed rest following a long-term mystery illness. After medical intervention (though important in making sure nothing serious was going on) failed to provide me an answer or solution, In conjunction with physical therapy to regain balance, I sought a way to help myself heal.
It was likely, on reflection, that I had to give my body time to fight whatever had attacked me to calm down. In that process (over half a year), I was worn out, exhausted, suffered from muscle atrophy, and many side effects from the original illness. I didn’t think that I would/could ever fully recover well enough to maintain my independence. Less than a week from signing disability forms, I decided to seek physical therapy. It got me walking nearly normally and balancing again so that I did not injure myself. But I was a shell. So much damage had been done. There was SO MUCH trauma. I thought that this was as good as it was going to get. Talking to my doctors, I was given clearance to exercise if I wanted to, and continue on my plant based way of eating (my choice…the book does lean this direction as well).
So, I figured I had two choices: go on disability, or fight for my ability to maintain my independence. I chose the latter. Not knowing if it would work, but fully knowing that if I did nothing, I would not improve as I wanted (I had three months off in the summer and 1.5 months in the winter with only moderate improvement in balance and energy, and little improvement on vision), I took a sort of ‘leap of faith.’
I took my ‘literal’ first steps, even though my body was screaming for all day rest. And I continued to take those steps. I slowly eliminated the ‘healthy junk foods’ and dragged myself to the kitchen to make WHOLE FOODS again, even though my body was screaming for rest. I added my self-care hobbies (piano and reading) back slowly as my eyes were severely affected and reading and movement were very uncomfortable. I joined the sick to fit page for support, even though I felt like I just wanted to be alone and fix this myself, and that I was out of place because this program didn’t sound like it was for someone as ‘messed up’ as me.
And slowly but surely, my energy and balance began to return, I went from playing the piano with my eyes closed to doing short bursts of reading music, I began to practice walking through the market and crowded areas without leaning on a cart for support, I went from listening to all my books on audible to incorporating small bursts of physical reading, I began reaching out to others for social interaction (after isolating for nearly a year out of pure exhaustion), and my willpower shifted to identity. Menu, movement, and mindset became my identity, something I just DID, not something I needed willpower for. I no longer felt that it was a chore to move (walk, yoga, strength train, etc...) or cook for myself. It was an HONOR and a PRIVILEGE! I have so much gratitude that I CAN still do those things.
And in the last few months (it has been a little over a year since my original illness), IDENTITY has become so much more…I went from identifying as ‘I AM a sick person’, to 'I am ME, a person who had GOTTEN sick.'
Sick to fit was a game changer for me. It gave me the agency to take back control of my health destiny. I didn’t give up on doctors and they didn’t give up on me. I just got to the point where the only one who could help me get out of what was essentially ‘fold’ and surviving, to movement and thriving!
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