I spoke of health, money and the importance of time in our life in the earlier blogs. I also wrote on investing Health for your loved ones. If you invest on your health, it would be not only for yourselves but also for your loved ones.
I spoke mainly of exercises in the context of investing in health for your loved ones. This means that you exercise and the amount of exercise can be quantified and counted as your investment for your loved ones. Just like saving account you do for your child for example.
You can also extrapolate the same on your diet for example. If you make sure you eat healthy diet with vegetables and fruits, then you can count towards the same. If you did not eat healthily today, then you have not saved for health on diet.
Now imagine if you are the main person who cooks for the household or someone who serves food, you have then the responsibility of getting the right food on the table. If you do not, then you are not investing on your loved ones health.
In India, often you are asked to eat more than you can chew in the name of love or Virunthombal. This would then negatively affect your health and the person who insists on eating may be then drawing on your health savings account. You just have to make sure they understand that!
Happiness and rest and sleep or also important for your health. Hence if you take adequate rests, sleep well, then you are investing on your health. If you acaquire happiness by being with your friends and families, you would like to be with or go on holidays you wanted, then indirectly you do invest in your health and for your loved ones.
Now the calculation of how much investment you have for your health becomes interesting. if you have regular exercise, eat good food, be happy and take adequate rest and sleep well, your investment account of health is going to be looking good.
But what if you start off now with obesity or overweight. Then you have to start your health savings account now. Think of your body weight as an account and this is your credit card account.
I say this to my patients. Your body weight is opposite to that of a savings account. In a savings account you want to save more by putting in more money and taking less out. But in your body weight credit card account, you put less in and take more out if you want ot lose weight.
How to put this all into a measurable method. We thought of one method of really putting money when you exercise ,and you can do so if you have healthy food and sleep well and take adequate rest and so on.
I will let you know of a formula in my next blog.
My patient is ready they say and i have to go now
Regards
Chockalingam
