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A Message To The Coworker With The Candy Dish At His Or Her Desk

January 23, 2012 By 1 Comment
Bowl O' Candy

My enemy!

If I ever run a company, I’m going to make sure the kitchen is stocked with Almonds, peanuts, turkey and roast beef slices, cashews and maybe some berries. I’m going to make it a rule that employees cannot have giant bowls of candy at their desk and I’m going to outlaw the kitchen fridge from having any sodas in it.

I say all this because my biggest enemy in the battle of the bulge has been well meaning office managers and coworkers who insist on tempting me with their unhealthy wares. Seriously, it’s like there’s a competition going on at the office to see who can bring in the most unhealthy items. One day it’s banana nut bread and the next it’s chocolate from Hawaii. In the mean time, the well meaning office manager is stocking up on cereal, granola bars, bags of candy and cookies.

And oh how much I hate these people!!! [Read more...]

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Are You Listening To Your Body? You Might Be Surprised At What It’s Telling You

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series The Long Path To Health

Water = HealthI used to be awful at paying attention.  In college I would sleep through half my classes, probably because I was working 60 hours a week but that’s another story.  When I drive, I tend to zone and not pay attention to the road in front of me or the cars around me (or the screaming of my passengers as I almost hit things).  However, one thing I do pay attention to is my health.  I like noticing what’s going on with my body and then trying to figure out why those things are happening.  It helps me solve problems and improve my health in ways I never imagined.

As an aside, this kind of critical thinking is important in every part of life.  If you want to know why things are happening, pay attention to when they happen and then figure out what happened before, what happened after and what happened during.  Do this enough and you’ll notice patterns that will help you avoid and mitigate problems or take advantage of opportunities.  For example, with enough critical thinking and pattern recognition, you too can figure out everything from when the next recession is due to ways in to increase your sex drive.  Trust me, it’s all a numbers game and you just need to pay attention to the numbers.  However, that aside, let’s get back to the topic of listening to bodies, mine specifically.

Since I’ve changed my diet somewhat over the past few months, I’ve been focusing on what’s going on with my body a bit more than usual.  What I’ve seen ranges from the expected but enlightening to the pleasantly surprising. [Read more...]

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The Plan For 2012

January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

2012 !I talked a bit about 2011 in my last post.  This post is going to be devoted to 2012.

I will consider this a very successful year if by the end of the year I will have:

  • Gotten on a scale and seen numbers below 200lbs
  • Shopped for pants with a waist size of 32 or less
  • Run two marathons in under 5 hours
  • Performed at least 1 bench press set of 10 reps with 300lbs

Now how the heck am I going to accomplish this? [Read more...]

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My Healthy Xmas Wish List

November 28, 2011 By 3 Comments

christmas tree 02 watercolorMy wife and I are spending our first Xmas together and she’s asked me what to get me as a present.  I do have an Amazon wishlist but it’s a pretty boring one consisting mostly of books.  She wants to get me something more meaningful (women!) and so I’m spending some time thinking about what I could possibly want this holiday season.  I’ve come up with a list of items, some of which are related to health.  I’ll post the healthy items here and for the rest… well, I’ll publish those just to my wife :) [Read more...]

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Tim Ferriss 4 Hour Body Diet – Maintenance Mode

November 21, 2011 By 2 Comments

DinnerAs you can see from the other posts in this series, I’m basically changing my lifestyle to match that of the Tim Ferriss 4 hour body diet (reviewed here).  I’ve made one minor modification to the diet, the addition of slightly more fruit than Tim recommends, but I’m sticking pretty close to it otherwise.  I’m finding the diet to be difficult in some ways but easy in others and I thought I’d detail them here for those people who are thinking about this as a permanent life style. [Read more...]

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“Eat Less, Move More” Is No Longer Accurate

November 14, 2011 By 4 Comments

Healthy LifestyleI used to believe that anyone who wanted to lose weight and get healthier needed only to “eat less, move more.”  In other words, just stop eating as much calories as you are right now and start exercising and you’ll see some great results.  My experiments over the past few months have revealed to me a slight (or maybe not so slight) error in my thinking.   [Read more...]

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Going The Distance

November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series The Long Path To Health

longest roadI’ve been making some minor changes to my life over the past six weeks and I feel like things are finally falling into place.  So, here’s the way I intend to live the rest of my life, and yes, I am very serious about that.  If you’re making any health changes that you’re not willing to live with for the rest of your life, you may as well forget about them right now.  Temporary changes make for temporary results. [Read more...]

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