How is Your Health & Fitness like the Game of Clue?

I’m sure most of you have played the game of clue a time or two, well as I was playing it got me thinking that Health and Fitness is much like that game in many ways. This isn’t a long thought today but I wanted you to be aware of these guesses and clues in case you fell into choosing the wrong set of three and got kicked out of the game and now we are really talking health and fitness.

Playing the game: In the beginning we are all handed out 3 cards the things we are certain of our strengths, our guarantee no failure cards; why because we know certain things are facts, a free pass so to speak. This is you being able to get up early to workout, to watch your portion controls, to say no to sweets and yes to water whatever your “certain no failure cards are”  you don’t have them all you are still looking for clues as to the whole picture.

Observations: this is where over time you start to mix and match your “no failure cards” with guesses of what will and what won’t work, here you are actually asking others for their own no failure cards and this in return helps you discover the whole picture of the game, some cards help and others not so much and some you already know it’s not for you. But you continue to ask and observe your fellow gamers (people at work, in the gym, at the playground) you are observing and asking questions all day long in hopes to get the answer to all the clues in this life of Health and Fitness.

Taking everyone else’s ideas as your own: this hardly ever works and if it does it is very short lived, when you toss your guaranteed strengths to the side and start taking on the “guess” of others you actually lose this game of Health and Fitness much like guessing your card is the weapon in the game of clue, even though you are hold it in your hand “well if everyone else is guessing that maybe it’s the right thing” WRONG you know it’s not stop listening to others when you know what’s right. 

How to win this game?  You look at the cards you were dealt, which ones are strong and will help you make wise choices regarding fitness and healthy habits and which ones need to be switched out because you guessed and they aren’t working for you? Only you can make this observation and guesses. And  I would love to help you narrow your “cards” down so in the end you are not searching for Clues or guessing after each conversation you have with your fellow gamers but that you stand firm on your decisions using your three best guesses and standing on your own strength’s and no
one else's

Only you can make the call and sometimes you have to take the leap of faith, but never lose who you are in the game because in the end if you win by being yourself you’ve won more than your Health and Fitness. 

Joyforfitness

Glorifying God in Faith, Family, Fitness and Food