Improving Your Health (Blog Series, Post #1)

Okey doke.

For those of you who have read my blog on any sort of consistent basis, you'll know about my weekly health challenge posts.

Unfortunately, I don't think those will actually be overly helpful. In other words, I don't think I'm helping you enough by doing it this way; don't you feel special? You should. :)

Anyway, this is to announce the end of the weekly health challenge, and to let you all know that, instead, I'm going to do a more in-depth blog series on it, on par with the one I did about public school a while back. I hope.

But before I plunge right into it, I suppose I should let you know why I can help you, right? For all you know, I could be an overweight woman who's basically blowing soap out her nose when she gives you directions.

Done with the mental picture?

Good. Then let's get started.

I was a pretty overweight kid from the time I was eight years old until about eighteen. And the reason that changed was remarkably simple.

I was a black belt, and the other black belts in the school I trained in left me in the dust. Every time. I hated it, of course, so I set out to change it.

I started doing some simple exercises at home every night, building up my strength and flexibility, and started reading health food magazines and newsletters.

The results being that at one point I had dropped thirty pounds without a trainer or a gym, or even going on a diet.

So I think I can help people. Or at least people who are like me, or are like I used to be.

I don't want to be super-thin, or look like a body-builder. I want to be healthy and happy, and have lots of energy. And I think I can help you take a step in the right direction.

Let's get started!

First off, there are six aspects of health:

~Physical

~Spiritual

~Mental

~Social

~Environmental

~Emotional

Not necessarily in that order, but you get the idea. For simplicity's sake, I'm going to stick with the physical part.

The first post (after this) will be about finding your motivation for changing your health for the better. After that, we'll move on to the step-by-step process to get you organized and then you get you started!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment them below!