Starling Fitness: Daily writings on Fitness, Diet, and Health

Fear is such a personal thing. For one person, learning to surf is scary. For another, being able to walk out to the mailbox and get the mail is. I can’t look into a magic computer screen and see each of your fears. All I can do is urge you to do something scary.

I can think of a ton of things that used to scare me:

• Running a race.
• Writing down EVERYTHING that I eat, even when I’m bingeing.
• Exercising every day.
• Eating healthy in front of my family and friends.
• Saying no to desserts or other food that wasn’t in my plan.
• Being a “picky eater.”
• Hurting myself by exercising.

I could keep on writing, but these are my fears, not yours. Make a list of your biggest diet and exercise fears.

Today…

Seriously, right now, this very second make a quick list of what you’re scared of. Choose something on that list and do it now. I was scared of being thought of as a “picky eater.” Now, I have no fear of that because I was brave enough to say that I didn’t want to eat unhealthy food. It took me a long time to learn how to be POLITE and ask for what I needed, but I finally got past that fear. Today is your day to learn how to cross one of those fears off your list.

Each time you cross off a fear, you get closer to getting to goal weight and living a healthy lifestyle without effort.