Top 5 All Time Best Health and Fitness Decisions !!

5 years ago when I was overweight, I had no idea what healthy eating and exercising to taking care of yourself means. Eating fried food and soda was my world and i did not know anything beyond that. It was when I had series of failures and rejections in life, that i started walking as a stress buster. Little did i know that a small walk would help bring so much changes in my lifestyle. I stepped into a gym for the first time then and had never known how to operate a treadmill. That was the best day so far and nothing is going to make me go back. 

Today i would like to list top 5 decisions that has made me love myself and take care of myself and why I truly love this journey.

1) Walking

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In August of 2010, i made the decision to enter the gym and step on the treadmill for the first time. I had no idea how to operate the treadmill then. But since then there has been no coming back. Over the years, walking moved on to running (sometimes), maybe on the treadmill or outside. But this is something that I still love doing and continue to do.

2) Pedometer for Walking

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I am the type of person who tends to get bored easily. So obviously when i started walking, I started getting bored of it after some days. That is when i decided to get myself a pedometer to track my walking and challenge myself a distance everyday. This has been a source of motivation for me. Till date, i still use my pedometer and on days when unwell or on vacation, i make it a point to definitely include 10000 steps.

3) Clean Eating

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Primary factor contributing towards your weight loss is your diet which is 80%. You may put 120% energy in your workouts but if your diet is not good, there is no use of workouts. So you will not see any changes in your body and may tend to lose motivation slowly. I was also a victim of this. Its amazing to see how i have progressed from eating outside food 6 days a week to planning and cooking my food at home.

4) Drinking water

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As easy as it sounds, drinking water is one of the hardest thing i have ever done. I can easily go drinking sodas and canned juices. But i would not drink water as i found it tasteless. Little did i know then the importance of hydration and water. Ever since i make sure to drinking 2-3 litres of water everyday. 

5) Discipline

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Eating healthy and exercising require more than just plain action. It requires a lot of discipline and consistency to actually follow doing that. It creates a positive shift in your mindset to actually transform to be the person you want to be. I learnt the true meaning of being disciplined by following this lifestyle change.

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