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What Role Does Fitness Play in a Healthy Lifestyle?
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Mar 10, 2025
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is more important than ever in today’s fast-paced world. Fitness plays a key role in achieving overall well-being, helping to improve both physical and mental health. From reducing the risk of chronic diseases to boosting energy and confidence, regular exercise is a powerful way to invest in yourself. Listen now to discover why fitness matters and get practical tips to help you succeed! 📖 Read more: The Role of Fitness in a Healthy Lifestyle: Tips for Success #ReluctantLowCarbLife #HealthyLifestyle #FitnessTips #ExerciseForHealth #StayActive
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this is Nita for The Reluctant low carb
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life at The Reluctant low carb life we
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really believe in what we call the
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trifecta Health which is about basically
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three elements of having a healthy
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lifestyle and I want to point out at the
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beginning this is not necessarily a diet
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because I don't believe diets work you
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know you go on a diet you're good for a
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while and you get off the diet and then
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you're not good anymore this is more
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about a lifestyle this is about changing
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your lifestyle and the three things that
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we believe in one is eating Fresh Foods
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that Wherever You Can Eat Fresh Foods
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cut out the Alti processed foods all
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iprocess foods have shown to be
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extremely unhealthy and particularly you
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know the the diet which is one of the
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most unhealthy diets in the world is the
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American diet because there's so much
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all processed foods in that diet the
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other one is eating foods that are that
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will make you help you feel full longer
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if you eat foods that help you feel full
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longer you don't have to eat as much you
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won't be as hungry you won't have those
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midnight Cravings overall just have a
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better diet and the last one is about
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Fitness and today I want to talk about a
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little bit about Fitness like why is
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Fitness important and why is Fitness
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part of this Trifecta of Health I
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recently went to the doctor and I had a
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bone density scan done and he said oh I
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could tell that you've exercised a lot
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because your bone density is really good
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you know he said you must have exercised
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a lot when you were young and I said yes
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I did and I've kept exercising
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throughout my life and he said well yeah
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I can tell that because of your bone
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density so you know exercise and fitness
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does matter it does matter that you that
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you do some physical exercise there's
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some physical benefits to it which are
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basically you know of course weight
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management you know stronger muscles and
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bones which I just talked about going to
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the doctor and the doctor telling me
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that my bone density was actually really
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good and the other thing which I think
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this is just a side note that help my
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bone density and I I have no scientific
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background for this and I'm not a doctor
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if you want to ask your doctor on it but
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I also stopped drinking Diet Coke and
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diet coke what I've read has been shown
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to hurt your bones and and so I think
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that that's part of what's helped my
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bone density cuz a couple years ago when
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I did my bone density exam I was right
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on the borderline between good and you
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know just not being you know poor and
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then I cut out the Diet Coke and up my
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exercise and now I'm very much into the
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good area of it the other one is you
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know exercise so exercise can help your
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bones and your muscles and and of course
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you know as does your food um
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cardiovascular health is another one
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activities like running swimming or
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cycling can improve your heart health
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and that it you know can make you to um
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enhance your blood circulation I'm a
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swimmer I love to swim I've cycled quite
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a bit but swimming is has be sort of
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become my thing now and I really enjoy
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swimming and getting in the
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pool I feel like I get a really good
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workout in like it works out all my
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muscles the other thing with blood sugar
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regulation that exercise can help you
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with your blood sugar and it can improve
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Mobility there's also mental health
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benefits for exercise is you know it can
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help reduce stress it can help you with
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your mood it you can get better sleep
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and you can have increase uh focus and
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cognitive behavior or function it can
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help with diseases too with heart
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disease or Strokes or type 2 diabetes
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certain types of cancers is really
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helped by through exercise as is
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osteoporosis so you know there's there's
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some things that you can do to get
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exercise into your life one thing that I
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find and this is just me and I don't
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know if there's any of you out that are
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out there the same as me but I really
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find that if I don't get up in the
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morning and I don't get into my exercise
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it really doesn't get done and I I feel
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bad for people that have really early
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morning schedules that this is just is
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not possible but I find for myself that
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if I'm not up and not getting exercise
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in in the mornings it doesn't happen I
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you know some days we'll sleep in you
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know just like anyone else I'll sleep in
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and I'll say I'm too tired today and
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I'll I'm going to I'm going to ex
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exercise at noon during lunchtime at
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work or oh I'm going to exercise this
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evening it doesn't happen for some
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reason it just doesn't happen I wait for
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the next day for something to happen and
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then and then I get the exercise in so
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that's something which I have really
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found for myself a habit which I've seen
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for me to really get exercise in I do
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best in the morning I you know maybe
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it's a sense that I like to be able to
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you know get up get the exercise in and
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also Al at the same time you know then I
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get dressed and I'm ready for the day
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and I don't have to worry you know worry
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about it the rest of the day it's not
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something that's on my plate or in my
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head it's like I've already done my
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hours worth of swimming I've already
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gotten a you know a good level of
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exercise throughout the
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day you know find activities that you
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enjoy I think that's really important
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that find something you enjoy if you
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like to exercise with other people find
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a group I recently started a boot camp
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and one of the reasons why I started
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theot boot camp and believe it or not
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the boot camp is at 5:30 in the morning
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which is really early you know it's
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earlier than I normally get up I usually
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get up about 6:00 but I decided that I
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would get up that hour or so earlier to
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get to the boot camp and you know just
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working out with other people helps it
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pushes me it was hard it was tough I
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hadn't done it in a while but it's
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something that I'm going to keep
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continuing to do because I know that the
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benefit of it is is really a great
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benefit that just to be able you know if
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you can get up and work exercise with
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other people and you know some of them
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become your friends and you get to know
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them well then you know then that
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motivates you and one of the reasons why
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I get up a boot camp is it's like
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another friend of mine was saying too
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that's there she says oh well I they ask
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well who's going to boot camp and I put
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my name down and say I'm going then I
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know that I need to go I need to get up
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and go and I'm like yeah you know like I
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can see how that's a powerful motivator
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so you know find activity you en jooy
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enjoy and maybe people you enjoy doing
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it with if you're not really big into
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lifting weights maybe find a group of
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people that you enjoy doing it with
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where something becomes fun create a
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routine and this I think is really
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important to have some type of routine
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like like I mentioned before for my
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routine it's it's the morning time other
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people may be the evening time but I
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find for me it's the morning time that I
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need to be up and add it in the
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morning you know start small and build
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up you don't have to do everything all
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at once we really are great Believers of
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the 1% rule which means just do 1% or a
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little bit more every day and if you
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just you know if you just decide like
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you just add like one day of EX extra of
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exercise every day or 1% more every day
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just imagine what it will be like by the
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end of the year you cannot chew an
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elephant in one bite so you really need
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to take it step by step little by little
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and just be consistent with
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it and you maybe have some variety too
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so I try to incorporate some variety in
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my exercise you know try to get some
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different type of variety one of the
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things which I really enjoy with
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swimming is the Swim app which is my
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swim Pro and I've written some blogs on
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it we could put a link for one of those
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in the description but one of the
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reasons I love it is because every day I
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have a different routine for my swimming
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so I'm not just going in the water and
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I'm not just swimming the same thing I'm
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swimming something different every
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single day and that kind of keeps it
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interesting it keeps me on my toes it
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keeps me doing things it it challenges
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me uh the other day you know one of them
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was to do the butterfly and I hadn't
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done a butterfly in quite a while but I
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did you know 100 meters of butterfly and
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it was like wow that was a challenge
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stay hydrated drink water you know if
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you're drinking the diet sodas cut it
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out try to get onto water I try now to
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drink mostly mainly water try to stay Hy
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hydrated listen to your body and you
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know get that you get the water in if
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you want to you know seek professional
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guidance you know like you said get with
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the group get with the trainer get with
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someone to help you and most of all find
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some way that you can stay motivated you
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know that you enjoy doing something that
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can help to motivate
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you and these are all things that we can
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do to help us to be able to become more
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fit through exercise you know they all
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they're all things that we've all heard
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before like this isn't anything new this
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is stuff that we've all heard before but
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it's a matter of implementing it it's a
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matter of saying okay I'm going to get
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up you know like like for me for the
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boot camp I'm going to get up you know
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an hour earlier on this day and do the
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boot camp I'm going to push myself on
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the boot camp do it as much as I can and
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I know the more I keep at it the easier
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it's going to
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become or I'm going to get up and I'm
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going to go swimming or I'm going to get
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up and I'm going to walk or I'm going to
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get up and run whatever it is that
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you're going to to do just do it bit by
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bit and set those little 1% goals where
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you where you try to improve a little
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bit every single day and if you do that
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by the end of the year you will see that
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great and amazing things are happening
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this is Anita from reluctant low carb
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life we hope that you will enjoy this
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we've written a a Blog on this we'll put
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a link in the description so that you'll
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be able to read that blog post and
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hopefully it will give you some
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inspiration on your own healthy Journey
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we're all about having a healthy journey
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in life taking
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this isn't about like quick fix this is
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really about a journey and a lifestyle
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and changing your life thank you so much
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for listening we certainly do appreciate
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you our listeners
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