Walking with Bob

The “To Do” list
Well, January is over and that was the month we all made our New Year Resolutions. Now we are in the month of February. It’s a good thing it is the shortest month of the year so we don’t have so long to make excuses for not staying on the great diet we started in January. Diets do not work. They are not sustainable. Think about it. If you lost one pound a week on that frenzy diet, that would have been 52 pounds this year. If it worked and you made it a habit, in 10 years you would be 520 pounds lighter. Hey, I have been where you are at least 15 times.
Here is what worked for me. On June 12, 2006, I decided to live a healthy and happy life. Why did I do that? I was eating and drinking too much. For two years, I only went from 254 to 239 and my blood pressure was still sky high and just a bit lower than my high of 204/105. I may have lived for another five years in that condition. The pills and diets did not work for the first 74 years of my “fat boy” life. It was time to change.
My doctor is an athlete. He runs two miles in the morning and does it again in the afternoon. My nutrition advice comes from a runner who is also a well-known expert on healthy food. I tweak my drinking, eating, walking and sleeping habits only after talking with or observing athletes and highly trained first responders and military heroes. They all walk the talk.

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