Wednesday, August 27, 2008

To change your life;change your lifestyle

I come from a family with several obese relatives. Great people and I am Blessed to have them in my life, but I would have to be blind not to see the challanges they face everyday. Both physically and socially.Lets face it If you are obese your heart, lungs , and joints take a constant beating and you feel miserable.To top that off, people treat you like dirt or make you feel inferior or somtimes they are just down hateful to you.


Being a father of three, I didn't want to see my children have to deal with these problems on top of the already difficult adolscent social dealings. So I did what I could to keep them active. We started my Son in Soccer at age Four. He fell in love with the game and has surpassed me years ago athleticaly. My ten year old daughter also started soccer when she was four and while she liked playing, she wasn't as talented at the game as her brother. As it turned out she was gifted at dance and was ask to join a competitive dance team.


So you would think that being physically active my children would be slim and trim right? Wrong.They were healthy but a little thick around the middle if you know what I mean. I didn't care. I love them nomatter what but I know society and how harsh people can be.So I thought to myself,what can I do.


The answer was so simple it was sick. Our lifestyle had become hectic. Games, practices,lessons and so forth. We didn't take the time to eat correctly. It was a little scary to think what we were doing to our bodies eating fast food and processed frozen meals with a nutritional value of squat. So I found this book that taught us how to change the unhealthy way we were living.If we were going to beat genetics we had to start eating healthy. .Click Here For more info on eating healthy


It simply came down to a simple fact. If we wanted to change our lives we had to change our lifestyle.

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