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Variety: Spice of Life, and Key to Healthy Living

March 4th, 2010

The past couple of weeks, sticking to my plans for healthy living has felt kind of like having your underwear on backwards – slightly uncomfortable, a little restrictive, and just not quite right.  I’ve been doing fairly well (not counting my entire week without exercise), but something just has been a little off.  Even though I haven’t really been unhealthy in my eating, I was just was starting to feel a little behind – a little like I wasn’t at the top of my game.

And then I realized early this week, I’ve been bored.  Bored…as…hell…  Bored with the treadmill, bored with my packed lunches, bored with my typical breakfast of cereal, bored with the whole…damn…thing…  When I got started with healthy eating, I really needed to be very simplistic so that I didn’t have to put too much thought into my meals.  I knew if I counted calories or food groups, I’d feel overwhelmed, so I just found options that worked for breakfast and lunch, and I ate them.  Everyday.

Breakfast was a bowl of cereal with half of a banana and skim milk.  Lunch was » Read more: Variety: Spice of Life, and Key to Healthy Living

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Laying Foundations

January 10th, 2010

It was a cool October morning in Atlanta, and it was my birthday. My thirtieth birthday. I was actually looking forward to turning thirty – I felt like it represented being a lot smarter and more confident than I had been for much of my twenties,and it might even help with losing some of the youth handicap that I felt like the twenties could often provide in the eyes of older colleagues in the professional world (I was, after all, getting grey hair at an increasingly rapid pace). In the weeks leading up to the big day, I’d gotten excited about thirty and had come to like my soon to be age.

Until I realized, I’d focused on professional pursuits with lots of intensity for the past decade, and I’d neglected my health, my well-being, and to some extent as a result, my happiness. So for my thirtieth birthday, I decided my gift to myself wouldn’t be something extravagant like a new car or a trip, or something fun like golf lessons or a new electronic gadget, but something healthy – a consult with a nutritionist. Seemed like a good idea. » Read more: Laying Foundations

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Reconstructing 30

January 9th, 2010

Turning thirty this past October didn’t really feel like an existential crisis for me.  The age didn’t bother me, and I didn’t magically feel older just by passing that day on the calendar.  But (there’s always a but, right?), I did begin to realize that as the song says, “Time keeps on slippin’ [slippin', slippin'] into the future,” and there was no time like the present for me to make some changes I’d been putting off for far too long.  Nutrition, exercise, living more healthily and without regrets – suddenly all those things became my priorities.

So began this project of reconstructing much of my life at the ripe old age of thirty.  Losing weight, getting fit, and living life to its fullest has become my mission.  As I write today, I’m a little over two months in, and it’s been hard work, at times frustrating, at other times rewarding, and more than a little entertaining.  Come back often to check my progress, laugh (with me and at me), learn, and realize that all of us trying to change our lifestyles are in the same boat.

Just an average guy – transforming his life at thirty…  Reconstructing 30

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