Health can be a touchy subject. How someone considers being healthy varies from person to person. If you were to ask my dad, it means not eating any processed foods or sugar, exercising, and eating as many natural ingredients as possible. If you were to ask my friend, Claire, it means having a good balance between physical and mental health by getting the necessary nutrients in your body, while also trying to live a stress-free life. Society also has different criteria on what it means to be healthy, which brings a lot of controversy.

When it comes down to it, everyone wants to be healthy; even though the word is defined differently for everyone, in the end, everyone wants to feel better. We diet, pay undefinable amounts of cash towards diet plans, gym memberships, classes, and manipulate our experience with food. We are brainwashed into becoming healthy.

For me, being healthy means not only having a good physique and the right food intake, but also having good mental health. Overall, how we feel on the inside projects to the outside. We create our bodies from the inside out. Yes, there is makeup to cover up any blemishes, but what we put in, think, and do, shapes us.

The key to a healthy and happy lifestyle isn't putting a permanent stop to the things you enjoy. It does not mean you have to give up junk food to achieve your ideal body weight -- well, maybe you'll have to give it up for a few days. If you want to do something, there isn't anything stopping you except you, giving yourself reasons on why you can't do that certain thing. Health is basically made up of how you feel on the inside.

Eating healthy, exercising, being nice, and indulging in a stress-free life makes you healthy, and it's pretty straightforward. Our health begins on the inside, and it shows through how we look on the outside. When we go after our goals and desires, the journey that you take and how you enjoy that process is the process of living healthy.