I Am Like You!

I am like you. You probably don't believe this. I think that if I read a statement like that on any blog I would refute it immediately. How can anyone say they are anything like me without knowing who I am and what my experiences are? Well, for starters if you are reading this blog, the chances are quite good that you have an interest in being healthy, like me. I'm also quite confident in my statement because I have yet to find anyone who doesn't have the same challenge I do and that is becoming or staying healthy in a world that doesn't seem to want us to. This world keeps us so impossibly busy and then tells us that in order to be healthy you have to work out for hours a week (that you don't have) and eat like a rabbit (and who wants to do that?). The world provides us with far more unhealthy choices than healthy ones. Someone is always selling the next fad solution to our fitness and weight loss problems, and most of the time they don't work. It's hard to know who you can trust and what information to believe.  The world makes being healthy and feeling good feel inconvenient and unattainable. The world also makes us feel like its normal to be unhealthy and pills will make everything all better. Well, it’s no wonder people give up before they start. My most important point in telling you we are alike is to let you know I am a real person, no impressive credentials, and I'm not trying to sell you anything. I want to share information that if I had it thirty years ago, I may not have lost my Gall Bladder at 32 years old. I may not have developed Diverticulitis in my colon at 34 (an affliction usually experienced by 80 year olds). I might not be one or two bad flare-ups away from potentially having part of my colon removed. I’m going to tell you how I lost and kept off nearly 50 pounds, not by dieting, but by changing my lifestyle. I will share with you the information I found and the insights I’ve gained along the way of my continuing journey, my quest to figure out how to live healthy in an unhealthy world. The information found here will not be the “end all, be all”. It will hopefully be a tool in your health and fitness tool belt. Maybe you’ll come here for a tip or a little motivation. I hope you will draw from my experiences (successes and setbacks) and I hope you’ll share some of yours with me too. I promise not to be too preachy but I am going to be honest and tell it like it is…. So here goes!!!