Obviously the most important thing in drug and alcohol rehab is to get and stay sober. Left unchecked, drug and alcohol addiction will destroy you and your life. It has the potential to kill you. So when you unpack your bags at a drug rehab center, your focus must be totally on the steps required on changing this distructive pattern. Learning to live a life filled with other wonderful things instead of drugs, requires a lot of different steps. One is structure. Though I have mentioned this many times before, I will repeat it again as it is just so important. Structure is simply having scheduled things to do, everyday so you don’t have a lot of time on your hands with nothing to do. A job is structure. Courses are structure. Meetings are structure. The other thing most people with an addiction must do is deal with some form of depression. Depression is more dangerous for relapse, as if left untreated or resolved, it leads to increased stress in you life and stress is the major cause of relapse.

So exercise is one of the few things that combats both of these concerns at the same time. Exercise is nature’s natural anti-depressant. It also give you something to do with the pent up anger and stress of first going to drug rehab. REGULAR exercise, preplanned in a superb form of structure in your life. Planning a particular time everyday to work out, means one less hour a day to worry about using drugs. It is an activity that is easy to find groups filled with health minded people to form friendships with. If you have ever joined a “running” group you will attest to the fact, after working out they all go for a protein shake, and a bran muffin, not beers and chicken wings.

Exercise will change your body for the better. This will also help with decreasing depression and stress in yor life. There are lot’s of great fitness makeover programs out there, designed around a 90 day period. Bill Phillip”s Body for Life, is one I highly recommend. Plus, a heathy body will be tangible evidence to your family and friends that you have taken your drug and alcohol treatment very very seriously. So go ahead, and build an new inner you at rehab. Throw in a great new body, just for the fun of it.

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