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LETS GET STARTED FITNESS LOSE MORE WEIGHT FASTER AND KEEP IT OFF! Hello all you fitness buffs! This months column consists of ways to get you started..to get you motivated to begin. I know that seems to be the first step in winning the battle of being healthy. Just begin..some people find so many reasons to NOT begin..excuses..such as ..I'm too big-it will take forver to see results! nopt today maybe tomorrow or next week....well guess what people you are wasting time, energy, health, and running out of excuses! Its time to get moving and I am going to help you. First you need to realize I was at an occasion or two in my life where you may be today..Ive been there..at one point I lost 85 pounds so if I can you can! It doesnt matter how much you have to get off poundwise -just get started! Ive always claimed my best fitness advice ever is: if you only lose 1 pound per week and keep it off, in twenty weeks thats twenty pounds! Twenty weeks will be here regardless of whether or not you lose that one tiny pound per week and keep it off..so you may as well do it. This is an easy way to feel that you can attain the goal you set for yourself by not overwhelming yourself with thoughts of having to lose too much too soon! Take it small and slow and eventually you will be there and so excited and proud of yourself! I gave this advice to a friend of mine and she said it helped her so much the first week she lost not one but three pounds! There are so many ways to acheive keeping this weight off-this one pound per week..even ways to begin to lose the one pound per week..you will probably lose more but shooting lower will bring you