My name is Ali, and today, my fiance and I took the first step in changing our bodies.
After a week of planning out menus and workouts, we started the Body For Life program today. There are no fads, no starvation; it's just learning how to eat and more importantly, how to move.
We've both yo-yo dieted over the years (even before we met three years ago), always seeing decent to good results, but inevitably, we'd gain the weight back (and then some). He and I are extremely happy, but in that happiness, we've become so comfortable with each other that we became complacent with our physical care.
A couple weeks ago, my fiance received genetic testing results indicating that he was at very high risk for cardiovascular disease. The weight that he had gained around his midsection only increases that risk. I visited my doctor's office for my yearly exam and discovered that I was over two hundred pounds -- fifteen pounds heavier than I was when I went into labor with my son.
That was our wake up call. This time, we weren't going to pick up a bunch of Healthy Choice meals and halfheartedly diet. We bought the Body For Life book, read it from cover-to-cover, planned out our meals and workouts, and today, we started our journey. We are formally entering the Body For Life Challenge in the Couples category (though we're just barely missing the 2009 deadline, so we'll be in for 2010).
This journal will serve to record my progress and pitfalls (hoping that those are a minimum!). I'm taking this one day at a time, and looking forward to seeing the changes to our appearances and health in the coming twelve weeks.
After a week of planning out menus and workouts, we started the Body For Life program today. There are no fads, no starvation; it's just learning how to eat and more importantly, how to move.
We've both yo-yo dieted over the years (even before we met three years ago), always seeing decent to good results, but inevitably, we'd gain the weight back (and then some). He and I are extremely happy, but in that happiness, we've become so comfortable with each other that we became complacent with our physical care.
A couple weeks ago, my fiance received genetic testing results indicating that he was at very high risk for cardiovascular disease. The weight that he had gained around his midsection only increases that risk. I visited my doctor's office for my yearly exam and discovered that I was over two hundred pounds -- fifteen pounds heavier than I was when I went into labor with my son.
That was our wake up call. This time, we weren't going to pick up a bunch of Healthy Choice meals and halfheartedly diet. We bought the Body For Life book, read it from cover-to-cover, planned out our meals and workouts, and today, we started our journey. We are formally entering the Body For Life Challenge in the Couples category (though we're just barely missing the 2009 deadline, so we'll be in for 2010).
This journal will serve to record my progress and pitfalls (hoping that those are a minimum!). I'm taking this one day at a time, and looking forward to seeing the changes to our appearances and health in the coming twelve weeks.
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