Are you feeling a little discouraged about a lack of progress?

Welcome to Walking as 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.

I began walking for fitness in 2013 and still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So for more than a year on Monday mornings, very early on Monday mornings, I would ask my friend Steve the same question.

Steve was part of the morning team and he, when I met him, was seven months into a weight loss journey.

When he began, he weighed 440 pounds. Part of the process that he was committed to was a weekly weigh-in. Every Monday morning, before he left the house, he got on the

scale and weighed himself.

And so on Monday mornings, after we arrived in the studio,

and of course we were in various stages of waking up,

how much coffee we had had, and so on.

So we would probably somewhat sleepily say, good morning.

And then I would ask Steve the question. Same question, every Monday morning.

And it went something like this.

Well, that's all I had to ask.

Well, and Steve would tell me, down two pounds.

I gained a pound.

Held steady, no change.

And the thing that really blew me away about Steve, those weeks where the progress seemed non-existent, his attitude was never one of discouragement.

And I think we're at a point for a lot of folks who began a new fitness journey on January 1st.

Maybe the fitness journey involves weight loss, maybe it involves other areas that need a change.

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