Weekly Roundup

A few articles I thought would be of interest:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070418/hl_nm/usa_restaurants_dc_2 - An interesting article about how difficult it is to pick healthy food at a restaurant. Relates back to my earlier post about going out to lunch. In short, don’t do it. If you can bring your own lunch, you’ll be much better off.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070419/hl_nm/heart_sodium_dc_1 - Another article from Yahoo about people’s salt intake. Next time you reach for the salt shaker, think about this one. Also, most unhealthy snacks have way too much salt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6547659.stm - From the BBC news, a story of a man who went from obese to the Boston Marathon. I found it interesting that even at his heaviest, he still saw himself as thin. That’s very similar to my own experience. It took something bad to shock him into realizing how unhealthy he was. For him, it was being unable to play with his niece. For me, it was difficulty climbing the stairs.

And finally, I wanted to include one non health related link. The following blog helped inspire me to start my own blog. It’s about finances and money management and is written by a man who found himself in a horrible financial state. Rather than giving in he started looking for ways to manage his life a bit better.

He did a lot little things. Some worked, some did not. Enough of them combined to make a difference until, a few years later, he found himself almost out of debt and with a healthy savings and investment portfolio. Now that he’s doing better, he’s sharing what he learned with others through his blog. He doesn’t preach major lifestyle changes or get rich quick schemes, he just gives a whole bunch of smart advice on little things you can do to manage your finances better.

Having read Trent’s blog, I realized this was exactly the situation I was in a few years ago with my health. I was out of shape but I refused to admit it. When I finally tried to fix the situation, I tried many little things until I gradually got my life back on track. Reading Trent’s blog inspired me to write 60in3 as a way of sharing everything I learned with other people. Like him, my attitude is that there are no get rich schemes. There are no miracle diets or 6 week exercise plans that will give you six pack abs. It’s just a lot of little things you can do to change your life. Not all of them will work for you but enough of them together will make a difference.

So without further ado, I give you, The Simple Dollar

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/

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