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How I Struggled To Get Into Shape

7th February, 2011 - Posted by health news - No Comments

I struggled with my weight my whole life. I was never involved in sports very much growing up. I was very content if I was sitting on the couch and not doing much of anything. It was not hard to figure out why I had a weight problem. I ate the wrong foods and never moved around much.

Each passing birthday made my weight issues even worse. I grew to be what most people would call obese. Regular furniture was not well designed for me. My friends would put out a special chair for me so I would not break their regular chairs. I was fat because of the way that I ate and the lack of exercise, and I did nothing to fix it.

There came a point where I decided to fix the problem before it was too late. My weight was interfering with too much of my life. I had no social life, but most importantly my weight kept me from finding someone special to share my life with so I decided to do something about it and to do it in a hurry, so I ordered one of those programs that promised to show me how to lose weight fast at home in a week and vowed that doing this simple step would cure all that was ailing me in a hurry.

Unfortunately the fad diet was not the answer for me. It failed miserable and I ended up bigger than when I started. I was also very discouraged, but I knew I had to try something to find out how to lose weight fast or at least something that would get me headed in the right direction if I was ever going to find happiness in my life and if I was going to keep myself from dying at too young of an age.

The biggest problem I had was not finding the right things to eat. I went online and was able to find out what kind of diets I could follow to help me lose the weight. It did not take long for me to develop a plan for my eating. I started to weigh my food and ate foods that were better for me. As I said all of that information is easily found. Somewhere through the process, I discovered what it was going to take to drop the pounds off my body. I had to find a way to use up more energy than was in the food that I was eating. That required me to do some type of work out. The biggest obstacle I faced in this task was the fat that was all over my body.

I knew that because of the shape that I was in that I would be limited in how I could work out. I was completely unsure of any type of work out regimen that my body could withstand. Without exercise, I could not accomplish my goals. There was something I could do if I looked hard enough. It was possible for me to work out.

The simplest thing for me to do was to start by going for a walk every day. It did not seem like much at first, but it was difficult. As time went by I was able to lengthen the distance and time that I spent walking. I was also able to increase the intensity at which I walked. The pounds were disappearing too. At some point I was able to start jogging. And the results were reflected on the scale. Everything I was doing was having an effect.

Two weeks ago I ran my first half marathon. I was able to cross the finish line although I was not first. As I finished, I looked back on the start of my weight loss journey. No matter what other people believed, I was able to start exercising.