Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I'm out early, as I tend to be, and I woke up a little bit harder today than usual.

I roll out of bed most mornings, and I'm raring to go.

But then there are some mornings like this morning where shaking the sleep was a little bit harder

and come out and it's like, okay, I'm awake now.

I want to read you post. This is from Melissa.

She's one of the rock stars of the Start Today Facebook group.

And she has been documenting her health journey for other members of the group. And her health journey has been pretty epic.

She's been at it now for more than a year and a half. She has lost well over 100 pounds.

And she has a goal this year to lose some more. But one of the big turnarounds for Melissa isn't simply the weight loss, but it's also an improved

health outlook. She has eliminated diagnoses of high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, and high cholesterol.

Can you imagine? Melissa doesn't have to imagine. She's living that reality. And of course, posts in the Facebook group, in the Start

Today Facebook group, they're filled with this this excitement, this enthusiasm, this

sense of accomplishment, as she has walked her way, it's primarily walking,

that's her fitness activity of choice. She's made nutritional changes, of course. The experts

tell us that losing weight simply by exercise, only by exercise, is really, really, really hard.

I don't want to say it's impossible, but it's really hard.

When you combine physical activity exercise with nutritional changes, then it is easier. Not that it's easy, but that it's

easier. And that's what Melissa has done. She's made nutritional changes, and she's also added

in intentional physical activity walking she walks a lot and she loves walking I

don't know that she loved it so much at the very beginning but she does now

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