Weight Loss Marathon

Weight Loss Marathon

Losing weight and keeping it off is not a sprint but a marathon…  I know what your thinking, is the coach getting ready to tell me now I have to run a marathon to lose this un-wanted fat…  Relax…  My comment has nothing to do with becoming a marathon runner, but developing a marathon lifestyle…

We all know a marathon refers to a distance of twenty-six miles in a road race…  Even if you are not a runner you have become familiar with this term, because marathon events now take place all over the world…  But did you know where this concept originated?

Pull up a chair and let me share with you a history lesson I think you will find quite interesting…  More than twenty-five hundred years ago in the year 490 B.C. a famous battle took place between Persia a world power at the time and the small country state of Athens…  Persia was expanding its empire and imposing its will on weaker size countries to surrender or be conquered…  Greece at this time was an un-unified country made up of independent states, the two most powerful were Athens and Sparta…

The Athenians refuse to be conquered by the evil power Persians and a battle takes place twenty-six miles outside of Athens, in a place called Marathon…  During the battle of Marathon the out-numbered Athenian army defeat the Persians and stop the invasion of Athens… After the victory a messenger runner named Pheidippides is sent to Athens to reassure the Athenians the city has been saved…  Pheidippides must travel the twenty-six miles over very challenging terrain to bring the good news…  He makes the journey non-stop, quite a human feat and collapses and dies after delivering the victorious message…

So the legend of Marathon, over coming great odds and the human spirit empowering the human body to great feats of accomplishments had begun…  History has a way of repeating itself even to this day…  In America in the month of April 2013, evil once again tried to impose its will in the city of Boston during a marathon…  Once again the human spirit of man was tested, would it run from evil or stand up to it…   Good always over-comes evil and what was meant to terrify, united the people of Boston and around the world…  The marathon spirit of man did not run from the bombing, but ran into it…  Great feats of courage were witnessed and will go down in history…

So what does my story of Marathon have to do with the battle of losing weight?  Everything, you see an enemy has infiltrated our borders costing the lives of thousands of America citizens each year and bankrupting our great country…  As we unmask this villain its identity is obesity, and it will take the rising up of the human spirit to defeat it…

Most marathon runners will tell you winning the race was not their goal, but the challenge to complete the race is what inspired them…  The same is true in the race of losing weight and keeping it off…  To complete the race the challenge to develop a healthy lifestyle living within our hormonal design is essential…  A sprinters mentality will fall by the wayside…  It will take the endurance and persistence of the human spirit to over-come the trials of human nature to finish the race…  There are no magical foods or supplements to turn this marathon event into a sprint…  The magic is in the human spirit willingness to change… 

If you need to lose weight its time to learn from history and take control of destiny…  Put down the sprinters mentality of dieting, and challenge yourself to a marathon lifestyle of healthy nutrition and life-long healthy behavior… 

I challenge all who read my story of marathon to 12 weeks of eating the right foods, in portioned amounts at least four times per day…  There will be trials along the way of old behavior tempting you to give up or give in…  Learn from history as we face our enemy instead of running from it you will win the battle and never have to go on a diet again…
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