Student Fitness Journey: Rational Goals

I have been on my student fitness journey for 4 weeks now and it’s taken me day by day to get use to this new healthy lifestyle. I have come to the realization that my fitness goal of losing 20lbs is going to be a slower process then I imagined.

There is this wonderful quote I've come across over and over again. This quote states,

                        “It takes four weeks for you to notice your body changing.
                                    Eight weeks for your friends to notice
                              Twelve weeks for the rest of the world to notice.”


I could not imagine anything else being truer. Being on my fourth week of fitness training I feel like I've defiantly gotten stronger. I can jog for a longer period of time, my stomach isn't as big as it was at the beginning, and I’m getting stronger overall.
When I first started tracking my fitness goals it was only about losing the 20lbs. I've come to the understanding that the only way to obtain the main fitness goal by having smaller objections to reach along the way. Now I’m tracking my fitness goals by a weekly period. If I can stay committed and work out for an hour per day for four days that to me is a success. I have to remember that at one point I was not doing any physical activity at all and now I’m doing four days out of the week, though I have not lost my 20lbs yet I still have something to be proud of. Now my fitness goals are divided in the three month period that the quote has stated. I've overcome the first month and still have two months left to go for the rest of the world to notice.

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