{"id":3815,"date":"2011-03-01T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:39:48","slug":"v-losing-the-weight-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/v-losing-the-weight-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"V! Losing the Weight for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The turning point in my thinking about eating and weight began in college. The university community on a whole was LIVELY and ACTIVE!\u00a0 It was not uncommon to see many people running, walking, biking, swimming, playing Frisbee, basketball, tennis and volleyball. I began to choose one thing that I could do over time that would stick. It started with walking and riding a bike everywhere instead of riding the campus bus or driving. I lived a pretty balanced lifestyle through college, graduate years then first career as a teacher.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, from the time period of 1999-2008, I gained twenty pounds. That was a big transition time in my life, which included a career change.\u00a0 This blew everything that I had worked over those earlier years to change, and rekindling those healthy habits became a matter of my health and self-esteem. In 2007, I resigned from my career job of almost 9 years in order to go back to college for a Master\u2019s in Sport Management. Throughout 2008, I began the slow climb back to that balanced place I once knew, coupled with a new interest in running.\u00a0 Another shift came in life in 2009.\u00a0 To assist me in my journey, I was prompted to sign up for a local gym membership which contributed partly to losing 13 of those 20 pounds successfully.\u00a0 It was a supportive and challenging community. Emotional highs and lows were triggers that I had to become aware of, and I figured out how to combat them with what I had learned.\u00a0 Here are a few of the small changes that have lasted over the past few years:<\/p>\n