Healthy Living For Smart People
Not much to report this week. I’m back down to 225, which I was disappointed with at first because I was hoping to be lower than that by this point. However, then I thought to myself, “holy crap! I’ve lost 12lbs in the past month and a half and I did it in a completely sustainable way. AWESOME!” Sometimes, you just need to remind yourself how well you’re doing overall so you don’t get too depressed with the little setbacks. [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 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...]
This update is going to be a little short due to a life that has become increasingly busy over the past two weeks but normal posts should resume next week.
First, that numb finger I told you about? Turns out it’s most likely a pinched nerve. Which brings me to a funny story. [Read more...]
I’ve been looking around at exercise classes lately, as a way of making my workout more interesting. I’m quite happy with my weight training and jogging, but I’d like to add another bit of cardio on the days in which I don’t run. So my curiosity was piqued when I saw an advertisement for TurboFire
Now let me clarify something. I am not affiliated in any way with TurboFire
