Back in 2017 I started a blog, mostly about my weight loss journey, but about pretty much anything I wanted to talk about. Much has changed since then and one of those things would be my health. After dropping down to the lowest and healthiest I’d ever been I allowed stress, depression and anxiety to dictate my eating habits. The end result was not good. As I write this I am back to 223 lbs, basically where I was when I started my very first Whole30. I am disgusted with myself.
I’m also celebrating a birthday in a little over a week and will be entering the last year of my 30s and staring down the barrel of my 40s. I’ve taken the last few weeks to reflect on what the next year, and beyond, will hold for me and I came to a conclusion. What I want is to get my health back on track. I’ve already started by finishing the first month of DDPYoga. For those who remember I’m a huge fan of Diamond Dallas Page’s program and this time I’ve been doing it with my wife, Rachel. I told her I needed her help and partnership in this to help keep myself on track. Today is also Day 1 of round….4? I think? I’ve already got a headache from the lack of sugar. My plan is to stay focused on a compliant diet, maybe do 2 rounds, and then switch to a predominantly paleo diet. I expect I’ll still have things which won’t always be great for me, but the hope is to remain focused on the overall journey and goal of being healthy.
The big goal I have for myself, the theme I want to stay focused on, is that my 50s are going to be my 20s. Why 50, seeing as it’s 11 years away? The thing is, those 11 years are going to be gone in the blink of an eye and I don’t want to waste a moment between now and then. My two oldest children will be in their early 20s and my youngest will be 16. My wife and I will be celebrating 25 years when I’m 52 and at that point my youngest will be 18. I want to be in a place with my health to really take advantage of that new phase in our life together.
This blog, which is on a different page than my original one, is meant to also help me stay accountable. It’s hard to lie to yourself when you are exposing yourself to the world (giggity). If I feel the need to armchair quarterback something in the news or whatever I’ll do that over there. I plan to make this exclusively about my health journey.
This will be a struggle for me, perhaps for the rest of my life, but I can either let it control me or I can try to control it.
Health isn't a goal, it's a journey 