After my dad passed of a heart attack in February, I have been fighting anxiety over my own health (piss poor till then).
I started making smarter decisions and paying attention, and lost 20 some pounds with very simple changes and periodic excersize.
About two months back, an uncle who is a personal trainer offered to help me out breaking my first plateau and do free nutritional support, etc, as long as I am serious about it.
Started eating paleo and sticking more closely to the basic guidance of the primal blueprint 2 months ago and am down 19 lbs in that timeframe. For a consultant who is on the road a good bit, some difficult food choices, and only reasonable excersize (nothing crazy), so far so good.
At first the stuff sounded crazy as much of the guidance runs counter to what the USDA has been "selling" the public for years. But when you think about how our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and all the way back to the cave men got along, it makes sense.
Losing weight is tough to get started when you pursued a sedentary lifestyle without discipline and fall into the ugly "morbidly obese" technical category. You are carrying around so much weight that simple things like walking or swimming hurt, tire you out quickly, and can even be embarrassing.
Others similarly situated might find Paleo and the excersize implied by the Primal blueprint a good, graduated way to take control back and start doing what you should have done years ago.
Don't believe me? In the hopes that it can help motivate even one person out there to get up and do SOMETHING, I'll embarrass myself and put my own two month weight chart up here.
One of the bigger things that has really stuck in my head has been the advice that I needed to change "diet" from a verb to a noun. E.g. Diet isn't something I do. Its a description of what I eat. And what I eat needs to be about sustaining my energy, NOT about (necessarily) making myself feel good.
Overall, I have lost more than 45lbs since making that choice, and kept the weight on a downward trajectory since Feb. The biggest difference? One day *I* made the choice to get started.
I started making smarter decisions and paying attention, and lost 20 some pounds with very simple changes and periodic excersize.
About two months back, an uncle who is a personal trainer offered to help me out breaking my first plateau and do free nutritional support, etc, as long as I am serious about it.
Started eating paleo and sticking more closely to the basic guidance of the primal blueprint 2 months ago and am down 19 lbs in that timeframe. For a consultant who is on the road a good bit, some difficult food choices, and only reasonable excersize (nothing crazy), so far so good.
At first the stuff sounded crazy as much of the guidance runs counter to what the USDA has been "selling" the public for years. But when you think about how our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and all the way back to the cave men got along, it makes sense.
Losing weight is tough to get started when you pursued a sedentary lifestyle without discipline and fall into the ugly "morbidly obese" technical category. You are carrying around so much weight that simple things like walking or swimming hurt, tire you out quickly, and can even be embarrassing.
Others similarly situated might find Paleo and the excersize implied by the Primal blueprint a good, graduated way to take control back and start doing what you should have done years ago.
Don't believe me? In the hopes that it can help motivate even one person out there to get up and do SOMETHING, I'll embarrass myself and put my own two month weight chart up here.
One of the bigger things that has really stuck in my head has been the advice that I needed to change "diet" from a verb to a noun. E.g. Diet isn't something I do. Its a description of what I eat. And what I eat needs to be about sustaining my energy, NOT about (necessarily) making myself feel good.
Overall, I have lost more than 45lbs since making that choice, and kept the weight on a downward trajectory since Feb. The biggest difference? One day *I* made the choice to get started.
