Lifestyle: Movement should always follow a meal. Not the other way around. Life is won by the little things, the minor details we tend to overlook have a great impact on our well-being. If you move, get hungry, eat and lay down - your body never really stops working during all three stages. If you eat, then move, and then rest - your body is actually generating more energy than it is wasting. Lifestyle isn't just about doing the right things - it is about doing the rights things at the appropriate time and in the appropriate order. A small change perhaps, but enough to put a significant amount of excess weight and strain on your metabolism over a large period of time. Many people tend to think too big in scope when it comes to health goals. Creating a joyful lifestyle is about creating a sort of pattern of behaviors that feel like little victories. If you can have a perfect day even once - you can have a perfect day 30 times. Now you have a perfect month. If you can write a single great page, you can probably write a great book. Before you start making big changes and shocking your body and mind with drastic change, perhaps it is wiser to try moving things around first. Don't add or subtract anything - but rather try and make whatever you have to work with more efficient. Realigning your lifestyle towards health is far easier than changing it completely. You must learn to make the world work for you, the biology of the body, the laws of physics, etc. Something as simple as always choosing to travel or go to that store you needed to go to straight after you've eaten does exactly that. The sustenance is working for you by providing the necessary energy for the trip. The walk is working for you by better digesting the food. And then the rest or sleep after is working for you too because your body doesn't need to work as hard anymore. To the resourceful mind, everything is a servant.