Today we're going to talk about the key to beginning a fitness journey that sticks.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation

to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave Dave I've been walking for

fitness since 2013 averaging about 21,000 steps a day I'm walking right now and

would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. It's a little chilly. The

temperature here in Myrtle Beach as I am walking is actually below normal for this time of year.

I've got a nice thick hoodie on and I'm still feeling the crisp temperatures.

A reminder that summer is in the rearview mirror.

It is firmly autumn and up ahead within the rearview mirror. It is firmly autumn.

And up ahead within the foreseeable future is,

dare I say it.

Winter, but we're not there yet.

I saw a post in the Star Today Facebook group that triggered a story for me.

So I've told you about my friend Steve.

Steve and I worked together on the morning radio program in Baltimore for a little more than a year.

And this was a few years ago. Steve was in the process of losing weight.

At one point, he was packing 440 pounds

and had tried losing weight before.

Multiple attempts failed and finally began

another weight loss journey that clicked.

And I think that first morning that we were doing the radio program together,

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