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I sit here at the beach today looking out at the Gulf of Mexico with the sun starting it’s daily descent while I am pondering this thing called weight loss.  I have been battling my weight on and off for more years than I care to remember and it was not too long ago that I realized that losing weight is the wrong issue to deal with.  The issue I now know is that a diet is not going to cure my weight woes.  This fact that obesity is in my daily life has led me to the point where I now know that I need to make a lifestyle change and within that lifestyle, I must pursue health.  The end result of that quest for health is, and always will be weight loss as nothing more than a byproduct of that health.

The solution that has come to mind is one that I have to just stop trying to force myself to lose weight.  I have to stop all of the diets and all of the decisions to stop eating chocolate or soda and decide to alter my eating habits in a quest for overall health.  Since I have realized that if I stop trying to fit weight loss into a box called a “diet” and just change the way I live, the weight has started to retreat on the scale.  I no longer get on the treadmill and walk a planned 3 mile circuit because I have learned to realize that I would much rather take my German Shepard Jackie out for a five mile walk.  Instead of going to the gym and forcing myself to exercise I have come to realize that life is so much more enjoyable if I just add more activities into life that I enjoy.

I am not one that enjoys or keeps to rigid exercise schedules and with that knowledge I have learned to do simple things like take a walk on the beach.   As I sit here in Pensacola, Florida on the white sands, I write this with the determination that I need to go for a walk.  I have the desire for a walk not because I want to lose weight but because I know the walk will help with my overall health.  As I extend these thoughts to you just take this thought with you for the next few moments.  As you struggle with your own effort to go exercise stop and think for a moment.  Why should you force yourself to walk on a treadmill for boring and mindless steps when it can done wandering while stepping through the waves on the beach?   The secret is not that you have to find ways to get yourself to exercise, the secret is that you need to find exercise that you enjoy.  Where is your beach?  Where and what do you enjoy doing?  Stop trying to just exercise for the sake of trying to lose weight.  Start an activity that requires effort and you too will be able to find health.  As you get more into your own personal activities you should experience health and through that health…weight loss can and will happen.

Excuse me now because the waves are calling me to introduce my feet before the sun makes it’s daily exit.  Spend some time thinking about what you love to do, get started and watch the numbers on the scale start to change in the direction you desire.

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