Change is an inevitable part of life. It is one that is sometimes welcome but often dreaded. In the case of one’s personal health, change can be hard to implement, even when needed. Whether that be not knowing what to try next or having trouble getting motivated.

Change is a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately, particularly

Most things in life seem to be very one sided. In politics you either believe this or that, with spiritual beliefs you are this or that and even which sports teams you support, you are either this or that, but what about health? Of course, we all know that some people can be kind of healthy and some can be very, very sick but I think most of us on a day-to-day basis also categorize health as two-sided. “Yes, I am healthy” or “No, I am not very healthy”. The truth is though that often people fall somewhere in the middle on many of these things. Things aren’t always as simple as this or that. I like to think of health as a spectrum that really has no ends on either side. You can never be perfectly healthy, but you can also almost always find some hope or something to be grateful for even in the worst of health circumstances. When it comes to how we treat our bodies, you are moving along a health spectrum. On one end you have good health and on the other poor outcomes and disease. Each decision you make that pertains to your lifestyle will move you along the spectrum in one direction or the other. It may not always be large movements, but which direction are you going?

By nature, all humans use comparison to know how they are faring. How well you did on a test, how well you performed a certain task or skill, how well you speak, how much you know and even how healthy you are. Unfortunately, many of us measure our health and how we are doing by our weight. Maybe this is because it is easy to check but the truth is that weight is just one variable of our overall health and honestly, it is better to be thought of as a symptom of a potentially greater problem. Looking even closer, it is not just our weight but our fat or adipose tissue that is cause for concern, and not all adipose tissue is equal. So how should we be measuring our fat?