Getting started on your weight loss goal is kind of like spring-cleaning or organizing your closet. It’s not hard, but it’s usually a pain in the butt to get started. Sometimes it is just easier to get going and not think about it too long.  If you have decided to spring clean your house this month, but need to wait until you have time, energy or help – nothing is going to happen as soon as you want or need it to.

Spending more time then necessary on making a list, getting someone to help, getting the proper cleaning supplies and making sure you have enough the time in your schedule is a recipe for frustration. You may even end up starting and stopping a few times and even spend valuable time, energy and money to never really get anyway.

Same thing can be said when you organize your closet.  When you make a plan, go out and buy new hangers and organizing bins, by the time you get home you are out of time for the day. The next day you start to sort, but realize you don’t have time to finish and everything gets squished back into the corners. You then make another plan to start again next weekend. Over-scheduled and overwhelmed at having to start again, it is easy to put it off ‘one’ more time. Or at least until you have more time, a rainy day or when you have someone to help.  Even if you just finished one drawer it makes it easier to continue the process.

Losing weight has some of the same struggles.  Every time you start and stop a healthy eating and/or an exercise routine, it makes it hard to start all over again. If you are so busy that you feel like you can’t waste anytime it seems only fitting that you wait until you find the perfect product or plan. Or maybe you need to wait because you know your schedule is going to open up next week…  or you need to wait till you can afford the new cross fit program or a trainer.

It is going to be impossible to get to the stage where being healthy is not just about losing weight.

Just get started.  Spend 1 minute and decided what you are going to do today and this week to improve your health and fitness. Make it simple and get going.  I do not know one person who doesn’t know 5 things that they can do today that will take them closer to a healthier lifestyle. NOT ONE.

You know that fruit and vegetables are better for you than hamburgers and fries. You know that walking 30 minute, (even 15 minutes) is better than watching Dancing with the Star on TV.  We know that drinking water is better than soda.  Just get started doing a few things that you already know will get you steps closer to losing weight, have more energy, being more productive…

Most people know enough about health and fitness to get started and get quite far along without doing any extra research, or spending any money. Once you get to the point where you need a few tips, motivation, more detailed vs. a general get you butt moving plan then you should contact an expert, join a gym/program or take the next step like buying new shoes.   After you get moving toward your goal you will be able to ask better questions. It is easier to customize a program and your goals once you have started on the path.

But for today, just get started. Go for a walk, eat your veggies first, drink a glass of water before any soda  – or do any of the 1 to 5 simple things you already know you can do today to move you one step closer to your health goals. You may find that you have a little more energy to actually get and finish your spring-cleaning faster and be ready to tackle those closets.

Ready for an Epic adventure? Join Tracy Benham as she Cycles the Silk Road this summer with Tourd’Afrique and get all of her travel, health, fitness, training and TravelFit tips on her new Facebook page and Twitter.  

Why Losing Weight is like Spring Cleaning is a post from: Sports Health Exercise

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We have been sharing our tips, shows and clips at numerous health and fitness information sites for the last 4 years and we realize most of our readers, and friends have no idea where all of our stuff is airing.

Througthout the month of August be will be sharing are favorite sites and places we  produce shows, write articles and share our insights.

First up, social networking sites.

We love Twitter – please add us as a friend:  ActiveHealth , Travel Fit – we also have 8 other individual health or fitness pages with focused interests, but these are are main ones. You can also follow our director TracyBenham

FaceBook – SportsHealthExercise, TravelFit, Get Fit Be Active, The AHN page is changing and we will share the link as soon as it is finished.

All of our team uses FaceBook for personal use, but we recently added a company page, GetFitBeActive page and a TravelFit page (the travelfit group pg is no longer in FB – we have an entire site for that group now:)

LinkedIn – stop by and say Hi and learn all about me here -TracyBenham

Amplify (our new favorite site) Active Ideals

FriendFeed – The Best interactive  health and fitness group on the web. No hype or gimmicks just lots of useful tips, info and sites shared by hundreds of active users Get Fit -Be Active , and  TravelFit group.   Since Friendfeed was bought out by FaceBook (FB) our groups are slighty smaller than they used to be. Consequently, we just added groups to FB to make sure we went where are members are active.

We also use various other sites such as Flickr, Tumblr, and Posterous.

Though we do have pages on My Space , Multiply and a few others, we are not presently active engaging with those communities.

Please add us as a friend, like our pages and let us know what other sites we should be actively participating in/with.

* We want to know our readers and followers. Please let us know if we are not following you, so we can quickly fix the oversite

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Daily Kick in the Butt is a post from: Sports Health Exercise

Daily Kick in the Butt is a post from: Sports Health Exercise

Set one goal Today that is meaningful and meets all three of these requirements.

Make it be worth your time, attention and be representative of your hopeful and happy future.

Then attack the goal with all of the motivating energy you can find!

Daily Kick in the Butt is a post from: Sports Health Exercise

They lie & tell you to eat junk, watch TV – instead of exercising, how really tired you feel, that you will do it tomorrow…

Trust the plan

Daily Kick in the Butt is a post from: Sports Health Exercise

AHN: Yoga Kick- Yoga Expert, Stacy McCarthy answers the question: Is Yoga Exercise?

Active Health Network: Yoga Kick – Is Yoga Exercise? is a post from: Sports Health Exercise

AHN: Fit Kick - Fitz shares one of her personal favorite places to get music to keep your workouts upbeat and energetic.  

( Kick Note: http://www.workthis.com/)

Active Health Network: Fit Kick – Upbeat, Energetic – Workout Music is a post from: Sports Health Exercise