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Lessons Learned Towards Gaining Fitness

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In order to reach my two year goal in gaining fitness, I needed a way to measure my progress. I decided that the easiest way is to purchase Omron Body Composition Monitor HBF-375. The purchased serves two purposes: Provide me a way to measure my progress. Sends a message to my subconscious mind that I am serious about this goal. Awareness is the first step. Once I committed myself, I started to become more conscious about what I ate and the size of my portions. Too often, I ate even though I was not hungry, this increased the amount of calorie intake which increased my weight and fat percentage. Here are some things I noticed as I lost some of my body weight: It is relatively easy to defer my hunger after work by doing some workout. I can satisfy the hunger with dinner (instead of snacks). It takes about two hours before my body realizes it is full. This lag causes me to eat too much and feel bloated afterwards. Beef is more filling compared to pork and pork is more

Gaining Fitness (Speech)

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Recent speech I delivered for Toastmasters: New Year is around the corner, there is a tradition that is common across the world. Do you know what is that tradition? It is to make New Year’s resolution. Babylonians make promises to their gods to return borrowed objects and pay their debts. Romans make promises to the god Janus for whom January is named after. At the end of the Great Depression about a quarter of American adults form New Year’s resolutions. At the start of 21st century 40% did (according to statistic brain). Did you know that in a 2017 survey 45% of their respondents would like to lose weight. You can look it up in The Statistics Portal . Why would anyone want to lose something? Isn’t it better to gain something? When it comes to Law of Attraction, we need to say things using positive phrases. That is why this speech title is on Gaining Fitness and not Losing Weight. Losing Weight is easy, if you are very sick, you will automatically lose weight. However, is