Exercise is Key

Everyone knows exercise is crucial to the weight loss process. Watching your diet alone may not produce the kind of weight loss you are looking for (loss of fat and not muscle). Watching your diet alone will not build the muscle necessary to burn fat stores and keep the fat off long term. Exercise is key.

If you are not exercising now, choose to start today. Walk (march) in place for five minutes. Walk around your block. Walk to the next telephone pole and back on your country rode. It is simple, it is doable, and you will feel great for having done it.

Then the next step... and this is key, do it again tomorrow, and the day after that and plan on keeping it up for at least a year and probably for the rest of your life. 5 minutes a day. You can do it. It will provide results. You may choose as the days go on to increase your time to 10 and then 20 minutes or 2 blocks and then a mile or more. It is up to you. You don't have to think about running your first 5k or marathon right now, although that may be your plan, just think about walking for 5 minutes today.

The priority is to commit to your health and your future. Commit to spending 5 minutes each day exercising. See where it takes you. 5 minutes can start a process that will change your life forever.