How to get fit? without the usual stuff

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Let us get fit!!!

Everyone wants to get fit nowadays. If they are thin, they want to bulk up. If they are fat, they want to slim down. Whatever the issue, no one is really happy with their body. Now I can take the very common 'New Age' concept and say that we should be happy with our body, however sometimes changing our bodies become necessary.I myself was obese and suffered greatly. Many in families had to get heart surgery, because of their lifestyle choices, which included bad eating habits and obesity.

However, even when we know that something is bad for us and can actually kill us, we might not change our habits. This is true. Even when smokers known that smoking causes cancer, they know that is long way of and they go for the immediate pleasure and discount the risk. What to do? What to do when you feel you really cannot do anything? your will, your idea of time/delay of pain and pleasure, simply do not let you get through that barrier.

The Solution


I believe we must first convince ourselves. Convince ourselves that change actually is possible. When an obese person wants to make change, they cannot even imagine being fit. When a meat eater wants to start eating salads, they simply cannot get to eat more veggies. It can be taste issue, or maybe he was a proud meat eater and cannot face the 'social pressure' of being seen as someone who is perhaps weak. Anything can be the issue, but who we really have to convince is ourselves.

When we know we can and will change. ideas start coming, we start looking for people to help, we start reading about fitness, we start talking about 'running' or 'exercising' with our friends to see how they would support us etc. Slowly we can make changes and let the changes grow, or even take a large step now. As we have convinced ourselves, we can also have  the 'staying power' until the results start coming in.


Conclusion 


Remember, changing ones mindset is only one part of the puzzle, only one step in the plan. Nothing will happen unless our mindset makes us get up and do something. We can all start to work on our fitness. It may be in a small way by eg switching to wholewheat products or it can be in a big way by substituting all our processed foods with natural fruits and vegetables.  It can even be by simply trying to walk more often everyday, Whatever the action, we need to start taking it.


The bottomline however is that it is  'we' who should be our biggest concern. Change is never instant, but once we convince ourselves we can be fit, we will understand and do, everything that seems common sense yet so out of reach.

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