Getting fit one step at a time.

Fitness is very important, and more and more people are coming to realize this. It took me a long time of carrying around the “freshman 15” to figure out that my love handles were not going to leave on their own.

I made a few half-hearted attempts at losing weight, and it would start working, but then something would side-track me. I would put the weight back on, usually accompanied by a couple more pounds. It was the day I got brave and stepped onto the scale to discover that I was only a few pounds away from being medically ‘obese’ that something cracked. I took a good look at myself in the mirror and broke down bawling.

If it had just been the weight, it wouldn’t have been so bad. But there were other aspects of my health that I knew had to change, and it upset me that I had turned a blind eye to it for so long. After my tantrum, I got up and decided that something had to change.

But what?

I started looking around at fitness sites and books and felt completely overwhelmed! These things were throwing too much at me at once. So I sat down with a friend and wrote a plan that I thought would work for me.

The very first thing I would suggest is to find one little thing you can change in your life. Don’t try to do it all at once, because this just stresses most people out and is counter-productive. The first thing I did was to cut almost all soda from my diet. Removing most of the sugar and carbonation from your diet will make you feel better within a few weeks.

The second thing was to start taking walks every day. Just little changes spread out across weeks and months started adding up and turned into a big change.

I want to explore different aspects of fitness and different things people can do to get fit. I’m collecting ideas from my friends and fitness magazines, and I want to put it all here, to help somebody else who needs some guidance, but not a lecture. Please come back soon and see what’s new. I’ll be doing my best to give you relevant information.