The Time Haz Come!

So ... once upon a time I was a ripped specimen of human performance.  While serving my second hostile fire tour in Bosnia, I was severely wounded ... an incident that would forever alter the direction of my life.  The nature and details of the incident I do not feel like clarifying, though they are forever tormenting me, but the after affects I have to deal with ... primarily ... pain.  No escape.  Can't run, can't bike, can't climb.  My left hip, right shoulder, back, and knees are shot.  The result of my inactivity have been terrible.  In 1997 I was 205 lbs of pure muscle.  After my surgeries and recoveries I was down to 169 lbs.  Today I am resting at a light 236 ... which may not seem like a lot compared to modern obesity issues ... but this is about me .. and getting me healthy.  I can see my neck popping out from under my chin when I look at my feet ... and the pear shape that I have come to stop denying has got to go!

So why this extreme?  Well today I saw a friend that I haven't seen in a few months and he had lost a significant amount of weight ... I was sure he had found a strenuous routine that had worked ... but he didn't.  What he did ... worked ... and we all can do it.  I will share it shortly.



That is why I am doing this ... and to hopefully motivate some of you ... whoever you may be ... to get about taking care of yourself as best you can.  I have had to come to realize after several attempts of getting back into an exercise routine that I will never return to my athletic stature ... but I can do better for myself than I am doing now.

What am I going to do?  Well it's simple.  For two weeks, I am going to reinvent my diet.  I will eat nothing but grilled chicken, whole wheat bread (in small portions) and vegetables and salads and drink only black coffee and water.  Fish is also allowed.  For two weeks I will eat no additional sugars nor will I eat anything loaded with it.  Worse, I will eat no red meat ... in any way ... at all.  This may seem like a small undertaking to you, but I eat meat ... too much.  I have no discipline with it.  I am going to do this for two weeks and report how I do ... and in two weeks, if I have improvement, I am going to continue for two more weeks.  Habits are made routines after one month of reinforcement ... and since I have years of reinforcement on bad eating disciplines, hopefully I can redirect my life and my health.

So here is to healthy eating and getting back into my clothes ... without having to rearrange what seems to be my expecting child.

Maybe, I can motivate whoever you may be to do the same ... and maybe I can just keep myself sane as I shut down my greatest addiction: FOOD

Wish me luck ... and pray for me, cause I already feel like eating my hand ... and I just started tonight.