Fit After Fifty: How to Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Stay Fit For Life

By Nick Vulich

We're all creatures of habit!

It's part of being human. If you do something enough it becomes a routine part of your life.

I have a dog. He's an American Eskimo. Whenever anyone is in the kitchen making food he makes his way over to the scene of the action waiting for fall out and handouts. Over the years he's learned he's going to get a few samples and when he's really lucky some crumbs will make their way to the floor. He just needs to be there waiting for them.

When the action switches to the dining room table he makes his way over there, and waits and waits, because he knows someone's going to share their food with him.

People are no different than their pets

The dog knows if he hangs out where the food is, he's bound to get some. So what does he do, he makes sure he's in the best position to get his share.

As people we do the same thing.

We put ourselves in the position where we're most likely to eat, even when we're trying to stop.

I've got this thing for those mini cherry pies they sell at Wal-Mart. I know I shouldn't but every time I go to Wal-Mart I pick up three or four of those mini cherry pies. I tell myself I'm just going to have one of them every day for breakfast.

Can anybody guess what happens?

Not hard to figure, is it? I eat at least two of them.

So what's a guy to do?

We're often our own worst enemies. We set ourselves up to fail. As humans, it's what we do.

I'm going to share this secret with you…

The free dictionary defines willpower as: The strength of will to carry out one's decisions, wishes, or plans.

Losing weight takes will power. Lots of willpower or it's not going to happen.

All of us have the will power to do whatever we want.

Order this book today, and discover how you can be Fit After Fifty

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Vulich
• Release date: Jan 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507098899

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Fit After Fifty

How to Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Stay Fit For Life

Copyright © 2014 by Nick Vulich

Table of Contents

Fit After Fifty

How to Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Stay Fit For Life

Brad’s Story

Read this first

Jim’s Story

Step # 1 - You need to change the way you think

Barry’s Story

Step 2 – It’s all in how you look at it

Bill’s Story

Step 3 – The Basics

Tom’s Story

Step 4 – How much exercise should you do

Mike’s story

Step 5 – Diet is a four letter word

Terry’s Story

Step 6 – Get Started

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Brad’s Story

Brad’s idea of fitness is hefting the TV remote in one hand and a Big Gulp loaded with Diet Coke in the other. Up until five weeks ago he hadn’t seen the inside of a gym since he was in his early thirties.

Today Brad is 55. His weight is hovering just below 400 pounds.

Brad knows the deck is stacked against him and a long life isn’t in the cards for him unless he loses the excess baggage around his waist. His real problem is getting motivated to make the changes he knows he has to make.

He blames most of his problems on the hand life dealt him. He’s got two teenage kids at home, a wife who’s still in college, and no job. To make matters worse he doesn’t have any health insurance so medical advice and prescriptions are out of the question.

Many times Brad thinks he can feel the fat piling on around his waist and chest. He often gets winded climbing up and down the steps and when he goes to the store it hurts his back, legs, and feet if he has to walk very far.

Trying to sleep at night isn’t a picnic either. When he lies down in bed he has to prop his body into position with three pillows or he can’t get comfortable. Even then it’s hard to sleep. Most of the time he just gives up trying to fall asleep in bed and goes out and sleeps sitting up in his chair.

This has been his daily routine for at least five years now.

There are a lot of days Brad is sure he’s going to die. He ends up running for the aspirin bottle hoping it can stave off the impending heart attack or stroke he feels coming on.

Five weeks ago he finally got tired of it all and decided it was time for a change.

The first thing to go was the Diet Coke.

Over the years Brad had tried to give up the soda habit with varying degrees of success. One time he actually stopped for three weeks but then habit took over and he was soon back on the bottle.

Brad decided if he could muster up the will power to give up soda it would give him the added motivation to cut back on food.

Brad had been hooked on pop since 7-Eleven came to the area in 1977. It started out as a Pepsi addiction. He spent the summer of 1979 living at home with his parents and gained 30 pounds. When he went back to school that fall he made the