////This blog is about losing weight. And this blog is about taking exercise //// 
The aspect of weight loss and exercise that this blog looks at is creating the habits that get us what we want. Not just creating new habits and processes but weakening or breaking the ones that keep us stuck.  
The trouble with unhealthy habits is not that they give us a certain level of unhealthiness it is that our unhealthiness compounds over time. By repeating the same actions, we do not stay the same but get worse.   
We get fatter, we become more sedentary. Life gets uncomfortable, Type 2 diabetes becomes a possibility. We may not be able to play with our children or grandchildren the way we want to. We may become unattractive to our partners. We may not like to look at ourselves. These are the obvious effects of the[now] 

What about the later problems? Immobility in old age?  
(How do you want to age?).  
Heart disease, joint wear. Having to take medications, needing time off work. Life being harder than it needs to be. 

Being fat. Getting slower. Feeling unattractive. These are not inevitable 

New thoughts, new actions, {{{Interrupting}}} behaviours, we don’t want will change outcomes.  
Life can be better. You can be slim. You can be more agile.  Just one action, just one thought at a time. 

First, though we must find out what we want. We must also know very clearly what we do not want.

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