Involve The People You Love In Your Fitness Plan

Posted on timeMarch 31st, 2010 by userAdvisor


Kids don’t seem to think that they will ever get older and the way they do things reflects that and I was just like any other kid. I enjoyed food without worrying about what was in it or what time it was. My body didn’t seem to react badly to the way I treated it. Despite my lack of nutrition I was able to stay in decent shape. Now that I’m older, I truly miss the days when I could get away with all of those things.

I settled into a comfortable life that included a job, wife, and children. My life settled into a routine that I enjoyed. My life was different and so was the shape of my body. The things I did when I was young now had a profound affect on the way I looked. I had somehow managed to get a tremendous beer gut where there was not one before. It seemed like I had no time for myself. I was always taking care of something for somebody else. I knew something had to change. If I didn’t get some control in my life, I would be teaching my kids the wrong way to live their life.~I was setting a bad example for my kids and knew that if I didn’t change they would turn out just like me. My children were not being taught the right way to remain healthy and would look like me when they were older if I wasn’t careful.} I did not want them to follow in my footsteps when they became adults, so I decided that it was time to lose my stubborn belly fat and learn how to lose weight fast in order to help myself and my family and give them a good shot at being healthy in the future. I also decided that I would bring my family on the weight loss journey with me.

I would have to face more obstacles in my weight loss program by trying to do this with my spouse and children than I would have to if I did it alone. The family would have to plan a fitness program around school and work. Whatever plan we came up with had to satisfy many different needs for several people. It was not going to be as simple as going to the video store and buying a copy of the latest and greatest six pack ab exercises, because I had to find something that would work with kids as well as adults, and it had to be good for both men and women. In the end, what kind of plan we chose was not as important as making sure that we could do it as a family. There were a lot of fitness type things to do for all of us that we could do with each other. We found out that we could take ourselves out to a nearby park to get some exercise in. By going to the local park we were able to get active, and also spend a great day together. Another activity was a simple as taking a walk around the block in the early evening. We started to work as a group and came up with a long list of activities that we could do together.

Just as important as finding the time to exercise, was figuring out what to eat. I began to do some research and discovered that there was help available at the biggest loser forum, which had many useful links and also had chat rooms which were full of people who offered some great advice for me and my family to implement our new fitness regimen. Like our exercise plan, we sat down as a family and decided on a diet plan that all of us would enjoy. Working as a family we were able to come up with a diet plan that suited everyone and would be healthy for us.

The benefits of doing the fitness regimen as a family are plentiful. We shared our thought and ideas about what to do with each other. We used to do many things by ourselves in our family but that has changed. The fitness plan became something that we could all participate in. In addition to being with each other more, our body’s were benefiting. Our lives had started to travel down separate paths but they were now walking down the same path. Because of the fitness regimen, the generation gap between the parents and the children was lessened. What began as a person looking at themselves and deciding it was time to change, became something much, much more.

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