Creating a fitness routine of any kind, I believe, is hard for most people.

Today, I want to talk about something that has been even harder for me.

Hi, I'm Dave.

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Today I want to talk about something that's been even harder for me than fitness.

Fitness was a challenge.

Did multiple attempts in my 20s, 30s, 40s.

It wasn't until I was 47 years old that I finally created a routine, a habit that lasted.

Getting something else in line has been much harder for me than fitness.

And I'm talking about nutrition.

If you saw the Walking as Fitness YouTube video that released yesterday, you have an idea where this is going.

I'm going to add a little extra insight to what I talked about in the video

and also share some comments from folks who watched the video

who have had challenges of their own.

So there are three things that have made changing my nutrition

really hard. Number one, I've been a thin person most of my life. When I was a teenager, I was skinny. My older relatives would always

say, you know, one day, you're going to really appreciate this. And I didn't believe

them. They actually were right. And I understand that this is not everybody's challenge.

But it did create an extra challenge when it came to changing what I eat.

Because for years, I'll even say decades, I could eat whatever I wanted with what

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