Healthy Eating / Healthy Living

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

I want to be able to walk freely for long periods when I'm older. I saw what immobilization and excessive weight did to my mom in her later years, and I don't want to go out like that.

My dad nearly dying due to complications from (previously unattended to) diabetes followed by a stroke did the trick for me. Couldn't have been a clearer demonstration of exactly what was at stake if I didn't start thinking about it now.

Of course, it then took me another 18 months for that to sink in, but that's another story.

So for two months I've been very consistent about keeping food intake down. My main focus is on calories, with the side benefit that finding lower calorie foods that actually fill me up means tending to less processed stuff and foods with less fat, sugar, carbs, etc.

As for move more, I lost at least 15 lbs. playing Wii boxing every day for 30 minutes. Damn, maybe I should have waited until I was as fat as Jared from Subway to start this. I could have been the Jared of the Wii!

And now I'm rollerblading 4 days a week, playing soccer.

So yeah, this feels like a pretty major lifestyle change for me. It's definitely the longest I've committed myself, and it's getting easier to maintain as I go. Hope that lasts.