I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, mostly because I have a 90% chance of failure. Resolutions don’t motivate me for long periods and as steadfast as I claim I am when I make them, the fickle they are a few weeks later. Instead, I can see the progression in my life, specially when it comes to health: a sequence of baby steps that have brought me to a different place over the past five years.

I am not the person I used to be. My entire lifestyle has changed into a “healthy” one with fitness, and my journey into triathlons, at its core. I go to bed early and wake up even earlier, my weekends are planned around bike rides, and the friends I see the most are those wearing running shoes. I love it! I feel healthy, but most of all, I know I am providing a good example for my kids in their own path.

There is still a long way ahead, specially, when it comes to nutrition. Sugar is my final frontier. I know I have improved significantly but I don’t enjoy cooking, and end up eating and feeding my kids with the same things over and over. Though decent, it is not where I would like to be. I know I should probably be changing our diets but it’s so much easier to stick to the tried and true even if that does not give us all the nutrients we need.

According to a recent survey by Prevention and Centrum®, I fit right into the mainstream American public. According to their survey results:

Even if they are concerned their current eating habits are not delivering key vitamins and minerals, Americans do not appear to be changing their eating habits to increase the amount of vitamins and minerals in their diet.

60% of Americans have not changed their diet in the past year to increase the amount of vitamins and minerals they get.

74% agree it’s a lot easier to eat unhealthy.

Okay, maybe I’ve changed my diet a little bit. However, because I was constantly training for long distance endurance events … I almost felt I had a carte blanche on the whole eating thing.

Of course I didn’t, but I ate what I wanted when I wanted anyways. That psyche change has not yet happened. But this year, though not a resolution, I have at least set the intention. I even signed up for a farm share! Every two weeks I get a bag of locally grown, organic vegetables. I just received my bag last week and didn’t know what two of the leafy greens in it were. I used about 80% of what was sent, and I consider that progress.

I bet that progress will slowly continue until it becomes a habit, and sooner or later I will look back at my eating habits today and no longer recognize them. The same way I look back at the “mom on the couch” of five years ago and can’t believe it was me.

In the meantime however, I had committed to taking Vitamins. Mostly because I know for a fact I don’t have a balanced diet, and taking in a multi vitamin can’t hurt. Again, according to the Prevention and Centrum® survey I am completely average:

 Over three quarters of Americans (78%) still believe it is fairly easy to get the recommended daily values of vitamins and minerals by eating a healthy, balanced diet, nearly half of those polled (48%) are concerned they may not be getting enough of one or more key nutrients from their current diet.

So if you are like me, completely average, and either take a multivitamin or want to start taking one, here is a little gift: a $4 coupon off your next purchase by visiting HERE.

Cheers! Here’s to us, on our non-resolution, perfectly average path to better health.

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