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What Are Your Bad Habits Costing You?

itness Freedom: The Cost of Bad Health Habits

From candy jars on your co-worker’s desk to happy hour cocktails, missed workouts and lack of sleep due to juggling stressful situations, bad health habits are easy to come by. Each one in its own instance isn’t so bad, but when they pile on top of each other, you quickly can find yourself in a vicious cycle of unhealthy habits. The problem with bad health habits is that they’re easy to include into your lifestyle, but hard to move away from when you realize how much they’re costing your health and wellness.

“People have a hard time distinguishing between their perception of living with healthy habits and the reality of their lifestyle choices,” explains Bruce Kelly, personal trainer and studio owner at Fitness Together Media. “When there’s a large gap between perception and reality, that’s when your lifestyle habits can end up costing you.”

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To help put the cost of bad habits into perspective, Kelly provided his insight for the following top four bad health habits that he sees many people struggling with:

http://fitnesstogether.com/avon/blog/13510/what-are-your-bad-habits-costing-you-

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