Healthy Living 101

[Vegas69]

Originally Posted by DOOM

I started my change 5 years ago . 45 years old 329 pounds I knew if I kept eating the way I did I wasn't long for this planet. So after 5 years (I'm 50 now ) this September I have lost 112 pounds and I have to tell you it really wasn't that hard!! So here it is and mind you I'm as lazy as they come for any exercise. I started walking one half hour a day on the tread mill every day for the first 6 months.This was a simple half hour walk after the first 6 months I started a varied walk/jog again only one half hour but I took Sundays off. I'm now to a point where I use the tread mill in the winter months and walk outside during the summer months. I'm up to 5 miles per day with a varied run /walk,still only taking one day off a week. One thing that kept me going through all of this was I would tell myself ''ITS ONLY ONE HALF HOUR A DAY'' if I could sit my fat azz down and watch tv why not do it while on the tread mill. Whats a half hour out of your life. At the same time I started doing the tread mill I started something else,I would not eat anything past 6pm anything!!! I have been married 25 years my wife and I work 100 hours a week each till this day. But for the first 20 years our dinners were hardly ever home always out and always at around 730/8 at night ,come home shower and get ready to do it again the next day. 20 years of that adds up. This one thing alone is huge I have to tell you!! I also cut down on the bad things . Noticed how I said cut down not stop. Well through all this I really never cut out the things I like. I still have pizza ,I'll grab a coke every now and then,pasta, ice cream nothing really changed for me that way. But I do eat alot more fish ,not much red meat anymore, I'm not a big drinker but if I drink beer its lite, and started to drink more wine also. At the end of the day it was a change for me but really wasn't that bad . Remember we are creatures of habit just change your habit and you'll be amazed at the results!
One last thing. I have neighbor that was over weight by about 190 pounds three years ago. He has lost 105 pounds as of today doing the same exact thing

Good for you Mario. Keep at it man! I'm not letting you off the hook though. NOBODY should be working 100 hours a week. You need to hire someone to cut that down to 50 max. Other people are capable of doing portions of your job, believe me. They just need mentored and trained. They may even do it better than you. Life it to short, hire someone and spend those hours LIVING.