Even better is that your being fit not only positively affects you, but everyone around you, including your family, friends and co-workers. This harmonious effect then extends past your world and into your community and beyond. And yet…

-- According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 33% of Americans are obese and 25% are overweight. That means over half of Americans have 20lbs or more to lose! Even with obesity being a common news theme, statistics like that are downright shocking.
-- Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, shows that 63.1% of adults in the U.S. were either overweight or obese in 2009. This is an even higher statistic. But then there’s this. . .
-- Regarding females alone, 2-4% of girls and women will struggle with an eating disorder or borderline condition. That translates into 5-10 million females!

Together those statistics tell us more than 65% of Americans have some sort of unhealthy relationship with their weight… from one extreme to the other! Scary isn’t it? Even scarier is that these extremes are both growing and deadly.

So what can we do about it? It all starts with one word: balance.

Since fitness had just always been my way of life, though, I also always had a training regimen to lean on. A program that was targeted and changed to meet my goals at that time. And THIS kept me CENTERED… balanced. Because…