| Everything has gotten so complicated in today's world | | | | What if instead of trying to lose weight and get healthy |
| that we often lose sight of the simple pleasures that | | | | the "adult" way, we try to do it like kids? What if |
| we once treasured as children. When I was younger, I | | | | instead of torturing ourselves at the gym three days a |
| didn't spend the majority of my day sitting in front of a | | | | week where we hate what we are doing, we did |
| television or playing video games. I came home from | | | | something fun? Enter... bike riding. You remember the |
| school and after a brief wave to my mother I was | | | | feel of the wind against your face, the exhilaration you |
| headed out the door again to get some fresh air and | | | | felt every time you jumped on that bike and flew |
| sunshine. I would get together with my friends and we | | | | around the neighborhood. The pride you took in the |
| would play, when it came time for dinner, there would | | | | new basket you got for the front of your bike or the |
| be fresh healthy meals to enjoy. The funny thing is, not | | | | little streamers that were tied to the handlebars. It was |
| a single one of us was overweight. | | | | so much fun to gather up a group of friends and |
| Fast track to twenty years later... over 60% of my | | | | explore, why don't we do that anymore? |
| friends are now battling weight problems (and several | | | | So today, I challenge you. I challenge you to act like a |
| depression). They try dieting, not by eating healthy | | | | child. When you come home from work, don't change |
| foods, but eating strange pre-packaged and prepared | | | | into your sweats and eat your dinner in front on the |
| foods that wouldn't have been recognizable as | | | | television. Instead, change into your biking gear, gather |
| sustenance twenty years ago. They drag themselves | | | | up your friends or family and head outside. Explore the |
| to the gym every day to run in place while staring at a | | | | neighborhood, have some fun, (streamers are no |
| television screen. And some, even resort to pills or | | | | longer required). And when you are done, eat a real |
| surgery. Why is it that no one has bothered to look at | | | | meal. It will make you thinner, healthier, happier and a lot |
| the habits that we had as thin healthy children, and | | | | more fun! |
| incorporated them into your lives now? | | | | |