Physical activities has been part of my life since I realized how important healthy living is. It all started when I gain a lot of weight while being so busy in doing my custom papers such as term papers, thesis and other school stuffs when I was in my senior years. Because of exhaustion, my way of treating myself was through eating. Fast food and value meals were some of my favorites. One day when I saw my fatty body in the mirror I told myself "I will work hard to be in shape". So I did. Basically playing basketball and running were my ways of working out. I still play and run every weekend with my friends it is a part of my fitness routine and socialization routine. We exchange news about sports, health tips and current events in our lives.
If you are heavy and fat, this is the day that you should realize how important and good to have a healthy body. Be fit and exercise! Find the perfect fitness routine and do it with your family and friends to decrease stress and hardship.

hi...my names chantelle and ive jus begun the maple syrup diet.. im 23 and im starting this with my boyfriend who is 21..

ok..so today is our second day..woke up with banging headache.....

For the last few years i've pretty much let myself go. When i was in my 20's i was in great shape and i took pride in the way i looked. But, as soon as i hit my thirties and i started a family with my wife, my fitness and health pretty much took a back seat.
I started to put on weight in my eaarly 30's and my belly has got bigger and bigger each year. It's only now that i finally have the time to do anything about it, but it's been such an up hill struggle. I'm so out of shape that it almost feels like an impossible task. But,
I'm getting there. This site has been great and I thought i'd use these blog posts as a way of keeping track of my progress and a way to keep me motivated.
If you're in the same boat, them maybe i might be able to help you out a little too.

Hello. Firstly, I would just like to thank all the other would be bloggers that are here, and itching to get started. Come one, get your pens out and start blogging!

I have started my fitness regime, again, with renewed vigour. Last year I lost 10kg, and got my weight down to about 84kg. Just before Christmas, I stopped my healthy diet, stopped exercising, and between Christmas and May I put on 10 or 12kg - at my maximum I was 97kg. I had to make a change. Again.

I decided that I do not want to be the fat dad picking his son up from school, or to keel over and die of a heart attack when I am 45 years old, leaving my family without their rock. So I need to lose weight.

My home gym (garage) has turned into a storage room. The power rack and weights are all there still, but covered in paddling pools, bouncy castles, high chairs, old furniture plus many bags of miscellaneous items that my wife has instructed me to move to the garage. So essentially, my gym is out of order. So, I am running.

I now run around my village, with is about 2.5 miles. Maybe 3. Not really sure. It takes me about 30 minutes. It is hard. I start easy, speed up a little, slow down a little, then sprint as fast as I can up the final hill. I work bloody hard on the last hill climb, panting, sweating. Usain Bolt would be proud of me. Maybe.

Also doing some circuit training, although now that I am running more, I am focussing on press ups, crunches and dumbbell curls. Last night I did 40 press ups in one go, followed by another 30. A few weeks ago 20 was my maximum.

I feel fitter, and I am happy with progress. Although it is still slow. I am still about 94kg, so a long way to go. But I feel better, and I am running better, which means I will burn more fat and lose more weight. The fitter and stronger I get, the harder I can work, which means I lose more weight. Like a snowball effect, but in reverse. Reversing the Snowball. Now that makes a good title.

Well, now been for 3 runs. Feeling good. After each run I do some circuit training too, just crunches, push-ups and hyper extensions. Still curling the 10kg dumbbells that live under my bed. Lost a little bit of weight, but once again, still lots to lose. But I WILL DO IT THIS TIME!!!

While dining in a seaside cafe over the weekend I could not help hearing a conversation the cafe owner was having with a friend that stopped by on the way home. The cafe owner was talking about her husbands battle with his weight. He had been diagnosed with diabetes and had entered a state of depression, which resulted in more comfort eating than previously.

She was also overweight, but making an effort to diet, and was managing to lose a few pounds each week, but her husband was in denial. He would say that he was dieting, and then have a full English breakfast with fries and toast. Some days he would not leave his bed for dinner.

As together they owned and ran the cafe, they were constantly surrounded by junk food and often had little time to prepare healthy food for themselves. They had thought about selling, in fact the cafe owner even said that she hated working at the cafe now, but they could not afford to live without the income and would not get a good price if they sold up. She did understand the real problem though, that the problem with psychological. She all said the she thought that hypnosis could be the answer, if she could get her husband to agree.

This reminded me of the Paul Mckenna approach. He made himself famous with his hypnosis stage acts, but developed this into a method of helping people to lose weight through positive thinking. Essentially weight loss is aboutpositive thinking. Stress leads to anxiety and despair, which drains a person of motivation and the desire to fight on. If people can stay positive and believe in themselves, then they can make the changes required to lose weight and get fit. However, sometimes they need a helping hand from a professional, sometimes even loving partners cannot help them dig their way out of a downward cycle of depression and despair.

As a continued effort to both get fit and save money in these hard economic times, I walked home from the station again today. According to CardioTrainer, it was 2.86 miles, and took 48 minutes. Average speed was 3.7mph, with a max of 4.7mph.

I did slow down to send some text messages (Google chats in fact) so I could have done it quicker, but a good time.

My route:

Well, its been about 2 weeks since i began this "fitness regime", and im still going strong!, which im very happy about normaly when i start this (and have done many a time) ill end up giving up because of other comitments and the like, though i am beggining to find that its getting harder to run each day i go out, but that might just be because ive been quite tired this week, hopefully thats the only reason!

well fingers crossed i can keep it up for good! i already feel the difference in the way i feel, and people have even said that i look like i have lost weight! yay!! :D

DAY ONE

Well here I am with 11.8 kgs to loose!!!

Last year in April I started with a Meal Replacement Diet and managed to loose 6 stone by the end of the year.

I have been sort of maitaining - ups and downs - today my highest since then - but never got to my goal weight of 64kg.

Having come this far - I must make the effort to get to goal weight.

I feel like I was on a path to a destination - but seem to have have stopped three quarters of the way there? Why? If I am going somewhere - surely I must get to that destination?
Why is that so difficult.

I know how to do it? ( I have the proven diet - I lost 6 stone)
I know I can do it? (Did it last year)
I know I feel wonderful (I was feeling so healthy)
I know I look so much better (nutrition in the food and no junk food and alcohol)
I know clothes look much better (clothes are now getting tight - and threw all the fat clothes away)

So, to sum up, I have been eating and drinking (far too much) - and feel fat and so unhealthy and so depressed.

I have to set myself small attainable goals: -

For now - I have to get throught this day - Day 1. and through this week - Week 1.

I will plan today - and think of only today.

Eat: 3 x Meal replacements (no bars today) 2 x Shakes 1 x Soup (how easy is that)

Gym: Walk to gym (30 minutes walk) gym (35 minutes)

Water: 3 Litres

Keep busy - here goes!!!

Well, to keep with the theme of fitness, i went out and bought one of those fangled heart monitor watches to keep an eye on my heart when i run.. and to check my resting heart rate, lets just say its not looking to good, hopefully with more running that will improve..

I'm very proud, i managed to slip in another run yesterday before work, which did something i did not expect, it gave me lots of energy for work, which on a normal week I'm completely shattered... so i might try to fit in that run regularly!

Wish me luck!!