Motivation

My Fat Butt Is Back On The Workout Wagon

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Ok, if you’re a regular reader of this site you may have noticed that I have pretty much dropped off the face of the earth the past few months (probably longer).   I haven’t been exercising regularly, and my diet hasn’t been one to be proud of either. I’ve been full of excuses as to why [...]

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Weight Loss Success Doesn’t Have To Cost A Lot, But It Depends Upon Your Level Of Motivation And Willingness To Change

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In talking with my wife, we often have conversations about losing weight, getting fit, and finding the “right plan” to help us to lose weight. My wife will talk about how if she just finds the right fitness plan, things will be different. I sometimes feel the same way, thinking if I find just the [...]

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Interview With A Weight Loss Champion and Ultra Marathon Runner

A few days ago I discovered a blog that I found to be  inspirational in my own adventure in weight loss. The site was Run4Change and it details the weight loss journey of the site’s owner Jason. Since 2006 Jason has lost over 130 pounds, and went from being overweight and un-athletic, to fit and [...]

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Here’s My Home Gym. What Does Yours Look Like?

I’m always interested to know what kind of a setup other fitness bloggers are working with in their home gyms. Do they have fancy weight machines, $3000 treadmills and other workout equipment? Are they working with just a set of elastic resistance bands and a workout video? Or do they just go to a gym? [...]

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The First Few Weeks Of Working Out Are The Hardest

photo credit: ericmcgregor Time To Jumpstart My Weight Loss After the new year hit, I made a goal that I was going to start working out again 6 days a week, and that I was going to lose the final 30-35 pounds that I’ve been wanting to lose. I’ve lost 20 already, but I still [...]

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Getting Away From The “I’m On a Diet” Mindset

photo credit: Celso Flores 2008 was a year filled with ups and downs.   My wife was in and out of the hospital a couple of times, and at one stretch was hospitalized for 3 weeks straight with a blood clot. We had tons of other things going on during the year that made it a [...]

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Personal Finance And Fitness: How Are They Related?

photo credit: shoothead Life gets busy The last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that I’ve only been able to exercise a couple of times per week.  We’ve been extremely busy buying a new car, teaching a class on personal finance at our church, dealing with family issues, and just being busy.   I know most of [...]

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It’s been a few days without a post

I’ve been lazy It’s been a few days since I posted here on Quick To Fit.  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, and my fitness goals have pretty much gone by the wayside.  I know that sucks, but sometimes that happens. At the beginning of last week I got an infection in my eye [...]

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Running. Love it or leave it?

One thing I used to just hate doing was running.  I would rather die than go running.  Running is hard, it makes you sweat and it always leaves you as a heaving sweaty lump on the floor. Well that’s how I used to think about it at least. Since I’ve been working out and trying [...]

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Back from vacation – more pushups to ensue!

Well, we’re back from vacation as of yesterday afternoon. We had a great time up in the Brainerd Lakes area of Minnesota, and will probably go back sometime soon. It’s a beautiful area, and we highly suggest checking it out if you haven’t already been! Here’s a photo that we took on our first night [...]

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