The most fundamental element of a healthy lifestyle is not fitness, nutrition, stress management or the "usual suspects" in the minds of most people who hear about the term "wellness" for the first time. Instead, the central idea, the engine that powers a wellness lifestyle, is personal responsibility.Without it, the rest will not be sustained. Without it, the tendency to make excuses, to hold someone else responsible or to blame the weather or the stars or something or someone rather than fixing accountability with oneself will eventually prove too tempting to resist.

Visit our BMI calculator. Familiarize yourself with some of the fitness articles, tools and resources on Firstpath.com and decide that you will never again blame your "genes when your jeans don't fit." Embrace personal responsibility--it is the surest path there is to success in weight management, fitness, an enjoyable life or whatever you seek of a positive nature.

Are you overweight? Need more exercise? Do you seek more information about nutrition, such as the difference between vitamin C and beta carotene or other data to better understand what your body needs to be at its best? We can help. Want to learn about varied approaches to wellness advances? You came to the right place.

Learn how to dine at restaurants without obsessing over foods or allowing guilt to ruin a fine meal. Discover which fresh fruits and vegetables can best support your embrace of personal responsibility for a more active life as you near middle or even "advanced" middle age! Want to favor a low fat diet? This is the place.

The older you get, the more important wellness becomes and the harder self mastery will be without a strong commitment to personal responsibility. The number one commitment you will discover at FirstPath.com is that YOU are the sovereign for your own well being. You are the boss, the master of your prospects and ultimate fate. In short, you rule!

And nobody else could ever hope to do a better job of it.

Congratulations. We will offer advice, counsel, coaching, tips and much more, but like you, we will never forget that YOU are the one responsible for your health, wellness and life.