Celebrity Rehab Advice

You're an instant celebrity, a hot, young actor or actress, a rising pop singer, or perhaps an emerging filmmaker. Success looms large, and so do the choices you have to make. With success comes pressure, pressure creates stress, stress breeds doubt-in yourself and those around you.
That's how it starts. One day you wake up on top of the world, but in a fog, unable to put your finger on right choices. The choices have gotten easier, but that's when you're hooked.
As a Personal Trainer, I've worked in health and fitness for over 25 years, in Sin City, the OC, and the last ten years in Hollywood. I've seen my fill of "users." I've been around deteriorating health, relapses and suicides. Alcoholics, meth addicts, coke-heads, sex addicts, speed-freaks, and drugs simply identified with a single large letter. I've also witnessed addicts turn it around and become spiritually fit and mentally sound. How do some users make the change?
Get physical. Make exercise your new addiction.
Here are ten sober choices you can make to change your habit:
1. Exercise and add years to your life; or have your life stolen from you by your addiction
2. Impress yourself by getting physical; or depress yourself by remaining inert
3. Exercise can help prevent illnesses; or become a breeding ground for constant mystery sicknesses
4. Use your body wisely and be admired; or abuse your body and become a joke
5. Breath or choke
6. Finely tune your machine; or become a Pick-a-Part
7. Sleep well; or sit in front of the mirror and watch your face (and life) melt away
8. Exercise and feel good about yourself; or remain in an addiction that doesn't give a damn about you
9. Exercise and prevent neuromuscular diseases; or invite strokes, heart attacks, palsies, and other disabilities
10. If you are in recovery, which if you are you always will be, you need to exercise because it will add quality to your life; or you can search the word "Depression" on the internet and see your picture come up.
Get back to making the right choices you're capable of making. I say you need to re-train your addiction. But then what do I know, I've never had one.
Erik Flowers is a Personal Trainer and co-owner of Body Builders Gym, Los Angeles. He has been called "The Athlete Whisperer," and the L.A. Times named him one of L.A.'s most innovative trainers. Reach him at: http://www.athletewhisperer.com