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When I was in college, I didn’t worry about the effects of my lifestyle on my future. My diet consisted of food that tasted good no matter what. My body didn’t seem to react badly to the way I treated it. I kept my body looking good even though I was treating it like dirt. Of course I eventually learned that my body would seek out its revenge.

After college, I found a job, got married and had some kids. My life settled into a routine that I enjoyed. My life was different and so was the shape of my body. The things I did when I was young now had a profound affect on the way I looked. I had somehow managed to get a tremendous beer gut where there was not one before. It seemed like I had no time for myself. There were a lot of demands on me that I couldn’t seem to get away from. I could not keep living my life this way. If I didn’t get some control in my life, I would be teaching my kids the wrong way to live their life.~I was setting a bad example for my kids and knew that if I didn’t change they would turn out just like me. My children were not being taught the right way to remain healthy and would look like me when they were older if I wasn’t careful.} I did not want them to follow in my footsteps when they became adults, so I decided that it was time to lose my stubborn belly fat and learn how to lose weight fast in order to help myself and my family and give them a good shot at being healthy in the future. I knew that if I could get my wife and kids involved that they would benefit too.

Since I decided to do this with my family, it made the challenge a little more difficult. The family would have to plan a fitness program around school and work. We would also have to find a method that everyone would agree to and enjoy. It was not going to be as simple as going to the video store and buying a copy of the latest and greatest six pack ab exercises, because I had to find something that would work with kids as well as adults, and it had to be good for both men and women. We were finding a common ground for all of us to spend time with each other in a positive way. There were a lot of fitness type things to do for all of us that we could do with each other. One activity I knew we could enjoy was an afternoon in the park. Not only did we get some very good exercise in, but we created family memories. We also knew we could ride bikes in the neighborhood together. By using our brainpower we came up with a plan that would work for everyone in our family.

Just as important as finding the time to exercise, was figuring out what to eat. I began to do some research and discovered that there was help available at the biggest loser forum, which had many useful links and also had chat rooms which were full of people who offered some great advice for me and my family to implement our new fitness regimen. As a family we all had different tastes and satisfying all of them with more nutritious food was not going to be easy. We picked foods that were good for us, but also were foods that we all liked.

There are a lot of good things that happen when a family decides to get into shape together. Designing our fitness regime brought us closer together. Before we started this, everyone had their own things to do. The fitness plan became something that we could all participate in. In addition to being with each other more, our body’s were benefiting. Our lives had started to travel down separate paths but they were now walking down the same path. Because of the fitness regimen, the generation gap between the parents and the children was lessened. Both the parents and the children have benefited from what was just the idea of one person who wanted to recapture some of his youth.