If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.
I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.
Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy.
I'm constantly out of my mind trying to stay in shape.
If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.
I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.
I can eat healthy when I want to, and I can work out every single day, and I can have the body for a certain runway show if I need to, but that doesn't mean that I'm doing it in an unhealthy way.