So I have decided to jump on the Healthy eating train, along with a workout. Now I have attempted this in the past and I am hoping that I keep with the workout longer then the Y. It has been 4 long years since I have quit smoking and since then I have gained more weight. Take in consideration that I have also had a life changing occurrence happen when Rachel decided to leave, I gained weight more because I didn’t care how I looked. Depression set in and took a hold of me, making me care less about all of the good things in my life. To add more fuel to the fire, my family ( MOM and AUNT ) were effected by Rachel’s decision and all of us lost the desire to eat healthy. This led to all of us making poor decisions when eating. I often wonder how we compare the better of two evils. You take smoking and we all know how bad smoking can be to our health but at least most people can keep a decent weight hen smoking. If you gain weight like I have then you run into the other major issues like diabetes and high blood pressure and these two things ultimately shorten your life. My problem, it was easy to quick smoking but it’s hard to eat right. We are bombarded with quick box meals and buckets of chicken along with fast food. It is easier to just eat out then to cook a healthy meal at home. Add in the cost of healthy food compared to un healthy and it becomes easier to eat un healthy.
Now comes the fun!!!!
Working out is essential to weight loss. It helps balance blood pressure and keeps your metabolism high to maintain a healthy weight. Now that being said when you are starting a new workout after taking a fast food induced coma for a few years, working out sucks!!!!! You are soar and like smoking the first few weeks are the most critical when making the decision to keep going or to quit. Every morning I have woke up to get ready for work and I can hardly even wipe my ass let alone walk to the bathroom. I have started a new type of workout called 9 Rounds. It introduces kickboxing into the workout. I like it because I hate lifting weights and like I have stated in the past, when you have been away from working out like I have it all sucks. That being said, the workout is a great challenge and it takes the NORM of working out in a different path. You workout for 30 min with 9 stations 3 minutes each and in between the stations a cardio workout. The last time I decided to have a workout plan I joined the YMCA. I stuck with it for a about a month, but it lacked discipline. Like quitting smoking you have to wrap your mind around the fact that you have to quit for you and nobody else. With working out you have to do it in pain and I can assure you the thought of quitting had come across my mind more than a few times. It is harder to add in the fact that all the food you have ever loved is bad for you and working out will make you soar and hate the fact you are fat. It takes a while for you to gain weight but it takes even longer with a lot more work to lose the weight. Stay tuned I will have more to come on this challenge
Mike