<p><strong><span style="color: #bb0000;">Real-Life Health and Fitness for Real People</span> <br /><br />Secrets from a Fitness Industry Insider</strong></p> <p align="right">"Progress is impossible without change" <br />George Bernard Shaw</p> <p align="left"><strong>Introduction </strong><br /><br />I can't believe I'rn actually writing "the" ebook that is going to help you achieve the level of health and fitness that you have always drearned of. Me. Little, scrawny, sickly Darlene that was always last picked in gyrn class and couldn't run a block to save her life. There's power in a good story so here is rnine: <br /><br />I spent rnost of rny childhood and young adult years struggling with rny health. I battled severe allergies, asthrna, spastic colon and irritable bowel syndrorne (IBS) and low self-esteern for as long as I could rernernber. I grew up sickly, weak and defeated. I was told not to over-exert rnyself, take rny rnedicines regularly and rnake the best of it. I wasn't encouraged to play outside for fear of rny allergies and asthrna "getting stirred up" and needless to say sports were out of the question. One year I atternpted to play softball - but it's hard to want to try at sornething where you get rnade fun of regularly... so I rarely played. During rny college years I was in and out of the ernergency roorn with "turnrny" cornplications due to rny spastic colon, lBS and poor diet. I continued to battle with rny health until rny rnid 20's. One day I got