Long Beach Fitness Expert

(You can skip the first part and read the last two paragraphs if it’s too long)

I used to be addicted to sweets when I was a child, so much that my two front upper milk teeth were rotten form eating too much sugar, a few years later I had a painful abscess in my gum and had to have teeth removed, my parents did stop giving me sweets eventually encouraged me to be healthy by taking me to swimming lessons and dancing lessons and to eat sensible meals like turkey salad (yum!) even though I would have tantrums, scream the house down, hide a box of ready made icing under my pillow and eat it at night.

At 11 I would ride bikes with my friends for miles to get to the nearest beach and go for a swim (and a tan). That is when I became more conscious of my body and I started to take responsibility of my diet when I was 13 years of age and started to despise unhealthy snacks and fizzy drinks (Im lucky i didn’t end up with diabetes and obese).

When I was 14 I moved away and stopped going to dance classes etc ect, all me and my friends would do for exercise was walk around all day, I felt withdrawn from exercising and would ask my friends if they wanted to go for a jog or to a swimming classes, they didn’t want to, but I figured that as long as I got some sort of daily excersise and fresh air even if it was just walking, that would be fine.

Im quite proud that things turned around for me and I managed to be healthy and fit, but now I have gone back to my unhealthy ways by eating junk and not exercising, I also smoke like a chimney.

I would start again but now eating healthy and exercising feels like a chore, I can’t do it without thinking Im doing it for a reason or that there is a goal at the end of it, my friends are still reluctant to go to the gym with me (they talk about going, getting fit and loosing weight but never get round it) I went to the gym once with my friend and loved it but she must have felt jealous and because she makes excuses about going with me now.

I have done some fitness DVD’s but they get boring after a while and after a few minuets I think what is the point? I don’t want to go out jogging or for a walk because I will feel too self conscious, I have thought about going to the gym on my own but I’m scared of feeling self conscious and getting in a nervous clumsiness state where I fall over or just give up after a few minuets because there is nobody there to compete with and encouraged by.

What do you think I should do?

Stop being lazy. Staying fit IS a chore. But if you think that the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and thus being healthy, outweigh the benefits of potentially having medical problems in the future than you will do it. If you don’t do it, than you really are harming yourself. Stop smoking.

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