Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us stay fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's take a walk. I want to read a comment from Eileen. This was left on one of the Walking-Hus Fitness YouTube videos.

For many years, I walked in the evenings after work, which cleared my brain of the junk of the day.

At some point, I gave it up.

I got lazy and discouraged because I saw no weight loss.

As a result, I gained more weight and became pre-diabetic.

Eileen is sharing a reality that many of us have faced.

We begin a fitness journey, a healthy habit, and we stay with it for a while, we enjoy

some of the benefits, and then for whatever reason, we stop. And it becomes, and I used to, I used to lift weights.

I used to eat healthy.

I used to walk.

I want to take a few minutes today during our walk.

That is a trash truck passing by.

Sounded a little different than most traffic that goes by as I'm walking.

I want to take a few minutes today and talk about this phenomenon of stopping something that is good, a good habit, maybe even provides a benefit.

You know, Eileen said the walk after work cleared her brain of the junk of the day.

That's a pretty big benefit.

And yet she stopped.

So five thoughts. Number one, and I'm going to sort of dissect a little bit of what Eileen says,

draw some perspective out of Eileen's comments. Number one, and this probably is the biggest reason why most of us stop.

We see no progress on a bigger goal.

So we're enjoying some benefits like Eileen enjoyed the fact that the walk cleared the junk from her brain after a hard day of work.

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