Instant Gratification Meets Exercise.

The problem with designing exercise programs and diets to appeal to the masses is that you might succeed.

When you make a practice or product popular, what is actually effective and life changing about it has been altered.

Practises that lead to health are seldom popular, that is why so much of the populace is in trouble. To be healthy and in shape now a days means that you have rejected what is popular and are swimming upstream, against the flow and the status quo.

If you are waiting for an activity to be fun before you begin it, you will wait for a long time.

But don't worry, you and your expanding waistline will not be alone.  You will be in the company of the vast multitude that please themselves today, yet are unhappy with the consequences of their yesterdays.

Multitasking Exercise Makes Child Rearing More Interesting for Everybody

For busy fathers: Try child bonding and exercising at the same time.

Mystical, Mythical Tomorrow

Tomorrow: a land where diets and exercise will begin.

There is another side to tomorrow. While we hear a lot of the wonderful things people will do when it comes, there seems to be a bit of anxiety about it as well.  The same tomorrow that holds the promise of a new beginning also holds the threat of a new problem.

The Amplified Bible says it this way: "So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble." Matthew 6:34

In other words, leave tomorrow, with all of its positives and negatives, alone. It is a box with problems in it. You have enough problems in the box called today to deal with. Fortunately you also have the tools and resources to fix them. Don't trouble trouble until it troubles you.

Shamed onto the Stairway

In Barcelona , Spain they tell it like it is: Skinny people take the stairs. That's how the skinny stay skinny. If you are fat, well, it's because you aren't the kind of person that uses stairs.

Want to change? If you want to look like skinny people look, then change your direction and do the things that skinny people do.

Sometimes the Motivation Finds You...

Some people search for the right motivation to get started. Others look for multiple motivations. Don't wait too long finding that motivation, or that motivation may come looking for you.

1951 Cartoon on diet and fitness. Same struggle, different year.

[Nice touch; Note the bacon and egg wallpaper]