I was a super active kid playing lots of sports, especially tennis (up to 3 hours a day) - which allowed me to have my fast food habit and not gain weight. Then I went off to college and discovered pizza and beer... and it's been down hill ever since.

Now, I work in a pretty sedentary job and have two wonderful kids, and I realized that I am really letting myself go. My energy is lower than I'd like and I don't spend as much time being active with my kids as they'd like me to. I have a family history of heart disease as both my grandfathers died of massive heart attacks at 50. My dad has thankfully bucked the trend by keeping in better shape than me. He's 63 and going strong. I want to be able to be the dad that can play sports with his kids and not be huffing and puffing because of the extra "baggage" I am carrying around. I want to buck the trend here as well and be around for my grandkids.