This information is excerpted from the book, Recapture Your Health, by Walt Stoll, M.D. and Jan DeCourtney, C.M.T. Feel free to use up to 10 tips in an article or story as long as you quote the source and ordering information for the book (at bottom).

Health Tip No. 12: Make Creating a Healthy Lifestyle the Most Fun You ve Had in a Long Time

One choice you can make is viewing wellness and the process of getting better as enjoyment. Consider your self-help wellness program as a hobby. Seriously practicing wellness is not only one of the most enjoyable hobbies, but it also offers the greatest potential for a happy life. If you don t think you have enough energy for making lifestyle changes, start small but do start. Once wellness, at any level of commitment, has been your hobby for a year, your increased health gives you more time and ability to make even more positive changes in your life. Actually experiencing a wellness lifestyle is the only way to know how happy you can feel.

Walt Stoll, MD, and Jan DeCourtney, CMT, are co-authors of the book, Recapture Your Health: A Complete Step-by-Step Program to Reverse Your Chronic Symptoms and Create Lasting Wellness, (ISBN 0965317129), available at local and online bookstores, and from Sunrise Health Coach Publications, 1-877-357-9355 or www.sunrisehealthcoach.com.