My Story of Health and Fitness

Healthy plus fitness is how you define what that looks like, not others. If you feel like you should change your bad habits to lose weight, bulk up, or maintain it’s on your terms and how you want to take action. You have to be willing to make it a lifestyle change, or you’ll struggle for longer.

Since I was young, I’ve always struggled with how my body was getting bigger each passing year. At the end of last year, I became the biggest I’ve ever grown. In the past, when I did decide to slim down, I’d change my eating habits and exercise more. For the first few weeks maybe more would I do great, but then I would quit from any excuse. Now to the present moment, thing changed some health concerns I fear if I continue down this unhealthy path may come forth. So this year I decided to change my lifestyle to become healthier.

In the last few years did I realize why I wasn’t reaching my goal before, which means that it is a lifestyle change. You can’t just do it for a little while and expect the results to stay. It’s a skill and will power you have to develop through this change for life, not just for a few months of dieting and exercising.

I found that you can achieve a goal, but it’s easier to create small task goals that line up with the big one. When January of this year started, I buckled down and written out my break down plan each month that will help me lose the extra weight. I want to change my lifestyle in a much gentle way for a better future. I know there will be times where I want to quit, and that is just a reminder to look upon my progress and monthly goals again.

My first goals from January did I not reach until the month of April. Where I finally locked down my goal of drinking eight cups of water a day. For tips to how I reached that many cups keep an eye out for water does the body good. Also doing simple morning stretches. Then for the month of May, I upped it to nine and added easy yoga poses to the end of stretching. As of now, I can drink up to eight glasses on weekdays, sometimes nine and the stretches help wonders. I’m more upbeat and not getting so down on myself if a don’t stick to them some days I don’t reach my daily goals.

The only question I’ll ask is, are you ready to take that chance now? Here is how first, sit down with the big goal to have the body you want. Second, break that goal into small ones to make it easier. Third, set a time limit of a month or however long to reach that task. Expect set back, struggling times, but that is part of the journey. Every day all you have to do is start over as many times as you want. Remember you’re doing this for a lifestyle change, because once you get to that curvy or muscular body you want, you can’t go back to the way you were eating and little to no exercising.

P.S. Keep a look out for a monthly update of my mini goals.