Before we feed our Stomachs, Feed your mind.

It is important before you start any fitness program  or diet, to know one thing. 

YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN BODY.

it's really important to know this because you need to know that whatever you want to happen with your body, you can make it happen. Try this. 

Go for a run outside... (as in not on a treadmill) for at least 15 minutes. The next day, your body might feel sore if you're one of those people who haven't run in a while and want to develop a higher fitness level. That feeling you get (the horrible aching soreness) isn't as bad as you think. As terrible as this following sentence might seem, you are the one who brought this pain upon yourself, and you should actually be proud of it.

Why? Because this feeling of soreness is derived from your own body, your own muscles and not a machine. The calories you burned are also because of that extra push you gave yourself before you wanted to stop because you felt like you couldn't take it. Machines in the gym are truly fantastic, and will change your body. But knowing that those calories you burned weren't burned off FOR YOU by a machine or another "tool", in a matter of speaking, but by your own biological system that you were in complete control of. 

YOU MADE THIS CHANGE HAPPEN.