Dieting is not the only way you can lose weight. Losing weight also means being healthy all around, and that should be your ultimate goal in your quest to lose weight healthy. And that involves a bit of fitness.

Many people get scared when they hear the word ‘fitness’ because they think it involves an expensive membership at the local gym, lifting heavy weight, all the other gorgeous chicks looking funny at your when you show up in your forms and show your chubbiness. Another myth people keep hearing is that you need to look like a bodybuilder to be ‘fit’. All that is just a myth.

To use fitness in order to lose weight needs just bit of time out of your busy schedule, and you can do it all from the comfort of your own home, and here is how you do it.

Do you have a bike? If yes, take it out of its dusty place and start using it. Ride around the block a few times, and if you are lucky to have a park nearby, start using it, it’s free. Next time you go to work, use the bike and leave your fancy car at home. Yes, people might think you’re a bit eccentric, but hey, being eccentric is in lately!

Dance. Yes dance.  You have a tv right? Go to one of those MTV style channels where there is constant music, or even better, put on your ipod some dance music and start swinging along. Best to do it when you’re alone at home, so you don’t have to feel embarassed if anyone sees you dancing. Some people like singing in the shower, and this is no different. Maybe you can complile an mp3 of your own with 10 great fast songs and keep moving your body right until the music has stopped. That will give you 30 minutes of pure pleasure, and you will see that eventually, you’ll be wondering where the 30 minutes have gone, you only started dancing!

Stretch. You can do this also at home all by yourself. Here are a few stretching exercises for you to try out:

• Stand and hold onto a wall to keep your balance if you need. Grab the top of your right foot and bend your knee, while bringing the foot towards your buttocks. Keep the knee pointing straight at the floor. You will soon feel a stretch right down the front of your leg. If you want, squeeze your hips forward just a little, this way you will feel it more in the hip flexors. Stay like this for at least 10 seconds and then switch sides.
• To feel your upper back stretch, put your hands together in front and curve your back towards the floor, while at the same time pressing your arms away from your body.
• Move your right arm straight across your chest and turn your left hand around your elbow, while at the same time easily pull on the right arm. After a while, switch sides. This will deepen your shoulder stretch.

It is not difficult to lose weight healthy using fitness as means of getting you there. You can start easily, doing the exercises at home, without having you anyone bother if you don’t feel like going to a gym or being in a crowd. Of course, if you have a best friend and want to workout together, you can go safely to the gym together. Trust me, everyone going there has the same inhibitions that you also have: that others are looking at them, that they are chubby and need to lose weight fast!