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What comes to mind when you think of enabling someone ... healthy or unhealthy?  The recent definition refers to providing help that perpetuates a problem rather than fixes it. You know, the reasons and excuses we make to justify a person's behavior or actions even sacrificing our own health and well-being in doing so. It can develop into such dysfunction where we actually believe we are helping a situation.   "The reality, though, is that enabling not only doesn't help, but it actively causes harm and makes the situation worse."   When an enabler steps in to help an addict, for example, they take away their motivation and desire to get help or change. According to Psychology Today , "enablers help addicts dig themselves deeper into trouble."   What does this have to do with fitness? Well, it happens to pertain quite a bit to health and fitness.  Are you making excuses and justifications to not start a fitness program? Is it lack of time, your spouse, kid...

Henry Ford said it best, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got."  Bad habits need to be broken which means hard choices are often required to create health and happiness in our life.  What we think in our heads as the way things should be or how we want them to be doesn't magically happen because the thought is there.  Bad habits are ugly and keep us trapped in a life of emotional stress , depression, repeating unhealthy behaviors, and unable to move forward into the life we are supposed to live.  We are not loving ourselves when we are repeating bad habits.  In order to create good habits , ending the cycle of what you have always done will be the start of great things for you. Bad habit cycles can include turning to unhealthy ways of dealing with stress, enabling a loved one, or simply not accepting it is happening at all.  Turning to alcohol , drugs, smoking , binge eating or not eating are examples of unhealthy str...