How Fitness Helped me Control my Life’s Direction

When I first arrived at College, like most kids, I experienced true freedom for the first time. My parents were four hours away and had no control over my life, it felt amazing! No longer were decisions about my time, activities, or diet made by anyone but myself. I would soon learn that free will has its consequences.

Being relatively active throughout high school engaging in various team sports, I never had to worry about my diet or exercising. Those decisions never required any thought, they were just automatic. When the chains were lifted…