{"id":387,"date":"2010-04-24T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/04\/24\/its-not-easy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:39:00","slug":"its-not-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/04\/24\/its-not-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"308\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/CoverWinter10.jpg\" \/>Kim Johnson<\/em> &#8211; It&rsquo;s not easy to eat healthy. It&rsquo;s not easy to exercise at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week. It&rsquo;s not easy finding time to relax and de-stress. It&rsquo;s not always easy to talk to someone when we&rsquo;re not feeling &ldquo;well&rdquo; (physically, mentally, or otherwise).<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I have two college degrees in health and still struggle with all this on a daily basis. Most days I would much rather have a quiet, leisurely lunch and skip cramming a workout and shower into the hour. It&rsquo;s much less effort for me to grab take out or pour dinner out of a box or bag. And I actually have to practice going to a fast-food restaurant and NOT ordering French fries. (Even with practice, I&rsquo;m frequently unsuccessful once I actually get to the counter and smell their greasy goodness. That then makes it a little easier for me to choose working out later. I guess there is a silver lining to French fries after all.)<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Health and well-being are among the most important topics we can talk about, yet no one wants to touch either. That&rsquo;s why we decided to take a light approach to a heavy subject in the latest issue of <em>Wabash Magazine<\/em>. We hope it was just the inspiration needed to jump-start a quest for better health.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Need some tools and tips to get started? Visit <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/magazine\/index.cfm\">WM Online<\/a><\/em> for a list of links to helpful websites recommended by physicians, a dietitian, and a health educator.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Also, in honor of this issue, we have added a new blog titled <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fitforadean\/\">&ldquo;Fit for a Dean.&rdquo;<\/a> Follow Dean of Students Michael Raters &rsquo;85 as he chronicles his journey to eat right, return to exercising, and achieve overall better health. He&rsquo;ll share his successes as well as his struggles, the highs and the lows, his goals and how he&rsquo;s going to get there.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Johnson &#8211; It&rsquo;s not easy to eat healthy. It&rsquo;s not easy to exercise at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week. It&rsquo;s not easy finding time to relax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}