In August 2013, I took the 30 Day Whole30 Challenge of eating sugar/preservative free foods. After losing about 20 lbs. in 2011 doing the Visalus 90 Day meal replacement challenge and documenting that process here and finding that drinking a shake for a meal (real food) just wasn’t going to be a lifestyle I could accept, I ended gaining the 20 lbs. back by the end of that year (2011) and then some! By August 2013, I tipped those scales at a lifetime high weight of 216 lbs. I needed to do something. The biggest motivation was not the size 40 waist pants I bought just for comfort or the overall things I was feeling – pain in the joints, poor sleep, fatigue, a general desire wanting more food, and lack of motivation. The motivation to address my weight gain was the heart attack … of a younger friend! Time to get serious I knew I needed to make some changes. I was turning 55 that fall. Seems I always saw the reports of the 50 year old guy who had a heart attack on one of the desert trail hikes in Phoenix. It concerned me. I thought if it could happen to them, it could happen to me. I knew I was worrying about it too much when I visited Colorado that year and decided hiking a 14er was not something I should be doing. Between the weight and sedentary lifestyle I had, I knew it would be stupid […]
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