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**Before we get started today, when I was doing the new web design, I seemed to have broken all my contact forms.  It seems I’ve had many emails slip through the cracks.  So, if you’ve emailed me with questions, or inquired about a consultation, resend the email to jcdfitness@gmail.com.  Thanks to everyone who followed up after not receiving a response!

Within the last few months, as JCDFitness grows in readership, and as more and more download my No-BS Approach to Looking Great Naked, I seem to be getting a similar question multiple times over.

And while the question is usually varies in form, often accompanied with a small novel of background information, it usually goes something like this:

How did you go from the obsessive, neurotic fitness enthusiast you wrote about in your ebook to developing the relaxed approach you now practice?

While I don’t have a clear-cut answer as to exactly what happened, I am going to break it down as best I can and then answer any questions that arise in the comments.

The Beginning

The way I became involved with this fitness stuff dates back to about late 2005 when I graduated high school. After a very short thought of continuing my athletic career at a small college, I enrolled at the University of Arkansas for classes that I’d attend in the fall – I had no intentions of pursuing sports any further as I’d frankly had all I wanted. [Read more...]