Healthy Living For Smart People
I’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...]
This is week five of my project to get back to a healthier lifestyle. If you recall from a couple of weeks ago, my goals at this point were:
And The Goals Were:
How am I doing? [Read more...]
I’m writing this on a Saturday afternoon. I went hiking this morning and I’m about to head out later this afternoon for some outdoor fun at the park. I weighed myself on Friday and the scale showed 230lbs. Goal Achieved! However, what about all my other goals? [Read more...]
Julie and I arrived home three nights ago after an amazing two weeks in Croatia (which I highly recommend for anyone looking for a beautiful place to go). I’m tired, I’ve had a miserable weekend because I caught a cold on the flight home but I’m also incredibly happy. The honeymoon showed me just how much I love her and how wonderful our life together will be. However, since this is a health and fitness blog and not a marriage blog, let me focus on a couple of thoughts that occurred to me while I was gone.
First of all, my choices are no longer mine alone. In the past, if I wanted to eat poorly and not exercise that was my choice and the consequences were mine and mine alone. That’s no longer true. My health is now Julie’s concern as well, especially when we’re talking about kids and a future together. The consequences of my choices are hers as well as mine. This is difficult for some people to accept and I can see why. It’s not easy to take responsibility for another person, to be accountable for what they do and to allow your own actions to be dictated in part by them. In effect, it means I’ve abdicated some control of my body, my decisions and my choices to her, just as she’s done for me. That’s a lot to accept but I accept it willingly because it’s part of our commitment. [Read more...]
I mentioned a few weeks ago that being healthy means living a healthy lifestyle. It’s a lot more than just 4 hour diets and trips to the gym. It means doing everything possible to live a life that gets you moving more and eating less. Today I’d like to talk about the act of giving.
We all enjoy giving. We like making people around us feel better. However, purely monetary giving (the act of giving money) seems to be unpopular these days. We hear constant stories of our money being used for less than charitable purposes, we believe that the individuals we give our money to might misuse it or we simply have no money to give. So, I would like to propose an alternative that is satisfying to both body and soul, volunteering. [Read more...]
Just a quick update about the marathon training. I’ve split my weekly runs into four different days:
Overall, I can feel my performance getting better and better. My pace is going up as is my endurance. When I started this a few months ago, I doubt I could have run 6 miles in a row and my pace was barely above 5mph. I’m feeling good about finishing that marathon in under 5 hours and I’m really hoping to get close to the 4 hour mark.
I definitely feel that having this public goal of training for a marathon is enhancing my resolve and motivation. It’s nice to have something to work towards and to have a bit of social status hanging in the balance. Motivation is key in everything we do, so having an upcoming marathon to think about it definitely motivating me to get healthier.
I got a question from a reader a few days ago in regards to the 4 hour body diet. He wanted to know how to maintain his weight now that he had reached his goals. Interestingly enough, it sounded like he was still losing weight, past where he wanted to be, so he was wondering what changes he should make in order to stop the weight loss but not go back up to his previous weight. [Read more...]
