The Quest for Fitness Begins

In the last post, I shared the early days of my ongoing battle with weight and struggle with fitness. During my seventy pounds weight loss on the Prism program, I developed a habit of exercising 30-minutes at least three days per week. In addition to the health benefits, I was motivated by the fact that by adding the exercise increased my allowed calorie intake to move from 1,500 per day to 1,800. Hey, 30-minutes of exercise was definitely worth more food!

"To Be" State

One of the activities in Prism was to visualize on a daily basis what you would look like when you reached your target weight. In order to do this, we were instructed to find a picture of what we thought we would look like in our "future state." Being somewhat of a perfectionist and techy, I went on an online search for a male body 5'9" tall, my build and my goal weight of about 170. I came up with this model and superimposed my face. It really did help to plaster this vision into my psyche on a daily basis.

After I lost the weight on Prism my father was diagnosed with dementia and lung cancer. I was working a full-time job and attending school full-time completing my undergraduate degree. I lost focus and started packing on some weight. After it crept back up to about 205 pounds, I contacted a personal trainer. That is when my quest for fitness truly became jump-started. Next post, we'll start talking about that transformation.

Today's Takeaways:

• Eating "clean" is the first step to fitness
• Exercising allows you more calories, or food
• Visualize where you want to go to provide clear focus of who you will become

Until next post,

Mike