My incredible journey to good health, fitness and an athletic body

Fat can creep up on you and before you say Jack Robinson  you are bloated and out of shape! A few flight of stairs and you are all out of breath, you can’t bend down without saying “my back!” your stomach is so big, you can’t see your toes – now that is disastrous!

My story

The above was true in my case. I use to be a very skinny child growing up, a “broom stick” what people would normally called “Leppa”. But after school, I got a desk job, married, got a car and the story changed.

Desk job mean you are sedentary, you only work with your hands (and brain of course!) but very limited physical exertion. Marriage means, in my case, more foods to consume! And when your wife is a good cook (you know, women get this sense of fulfillment and satisfaction when they see their man devour their food and ask for more!) and of course you know that the typical Nigerian food is heavily starchy (carbohydrates) based and our soup is rich in palm oil. Lastly, getting a car mean an end to walking to bus stops, trekking to the office from where the bus will drop you and generally taking it easy and relaxed.

So in my case, I ballooned, by the way, I don’t drink beer, it just those 3 factors above. I transformed from a “Leppa”  to “Orobo”

The Turning Point

The changing point came when during my lunch break, I tried to walk to the restaurant just a few blocks away from my office. By the time I made it (eventually) to the restaurant, I was all out of breath and I said to myself “this is unacceptable”

Now, it’s not as if I am new to exercising. I have always exercised but in an off-and-on, disjointed manner. There was a time I even went on a one week fruit fast (only fruit for 1 week) but the problem is I always negate any benefit from exercising by eating heavily.

So finally, I sat down with a wonderful lady, at my place of work, she is into fitness and health and quite passionate about the subject. She taught me the exercises, the forms, the types, the combination (cross training) she gave me the website to visit and most importantly the food to eat, how, when, what quantity and combination. And eventually, I believe that I have all the needed information to set out on my journey to good health, fitness and an athletic body!

So this blog is a diary to chronicle my journey. Come with me!