While your health and fitness are important, and it’s not that hard to make the work it takes to achieve the fun, it’s still important to take some time to just chill out when you need to. Danny and Lexi take plenty of active rest days, enjoying a break from the gym while taking a casual stroll through the park with their three gorgeous golden retrievers.
Rest days should be fun, with gentle activity, preferably involving something different from what you do to work out. You can take it lightly with things like yoga and walking, or try something new, like surfing lessons, trampolining, or even beginner trapeze classes!
Nothing Beats the Support of a Like-minded Community
As you’ve probably picked up by now, Lexi and Danny wouldn’t have made it as far as they did without the support of friends, family, and the wider community they reached out to. While their results are theirs alone and they were certainly the ones who did all the hard work, there were moments of doubt and weakness along the way that were defeated with the help of their community.
Lexi’s community exists in both the online and offline worlds. Along with her Instagram account, she has a Facebook group where she hosts contests and shares tips, advice, and motivation. In the real world, she is never short of a workout buddy or a friend to chat to when she is feeling unmotivated. The #Fatgirlfedup social world is now filled with people sharing their own journeys and encouraging each other to achieve their goals.
Fit Friends Are the Best Form of Motivation
As we mentioned, Lexi’s offline community was just as important as the online one she created. Surrounding herself with friends who had the same healthy living goals was essential and Lexi has come to have a bevy of best buds who are always happy to meet up for a gym date or outdoor adventure.
In fact, this need for community actually brought Lexi out of her shell, giving her more than just support for her fitness goals. In Lexi’s words: “over time, I found others along the way who helped make me who I am today and helped to make my journey more enjoyable.”
A Whole New Life Filled With Dirt Bikes and Adventure
Taking this “try something new” ethos to heart, Danny and Lexi discovered a new shared passion they never would have dreamed of before: dirt bikes. Captioning this image on her Instagram, Lexi wrote: “from 765 lbs to riding dirt bikes, life with you is an adventure & I’m enjoying the ride.”
This brings us back to one of the most important tips Danny and Lexi shared: to stay in shape, make sure you get into physical activities that you find fun. There’s nothing like learning new skills and getting fit at the same time. The sense of achievement is its own kind of natural high. It may take a few attempts before you find what does it for you (dirt bikes aren’t for everyone), but rest assured, your fun-inspiring activities are out there just waiting for you to discover them.
Danny Is as Much of an Inspiration as Lexi
We have focussed a fair bit on Lexi Reed and her inspirational ways, now let's shift the attention back to Danny, who has been an equally remarkable inspiration to many men who are traversing the same weight loss path as him. Danny shares his own progress photos, life lessons, and advice through his Instagram account, DiscoveringDanny.
Along with tips and words of wisdom and inspiration, this super sweet dude also shares snaps of him and Lexi out and about doing all the things they feared they’d never be able to do together just a few years earlier.