3 Simple Ways To Lose Weight And Stay Fit

Maximus #9 on the pitch scoring a goal! When you are young you can pretty much eat how you want and stay fit. Not the case when you are the parent raising the young David Beckam!

Maximus #9 on the pitch scoring a goal! When you are young you can pretty much eat how you want and stay fit. Not the case when you are the parent raising the young David Beckam!

Here are three simple life changes to lose weight and stay fit. As a former fitness freak who over the years let a little too much comfort food collect around my middle, when I decided to do something about it I discovered that losing weight as a middle-aged father of seven was a little different than putting the fitness pedal to the metal as a twenty-something hard charging Marine who won awards for fitness.

It’s primarily three things that can doom us to a pant size we are uncomfortable divulging to our friends: 1) a lowered metabolism, 2) a body that won’t quite keep up with the workouts it used to and 3) an unhealthy diet that accumulates weighty momentum year after year.

After much trial, error, and frustration, I discovered three simple things that allowed me to get fit, lose over 35 pounds, get down to my young Marine Corps weight and more importantly, keep it off.

1) Exercise in the morning (at a minimum, 20 minutes of cardio when you wake up before you go to work).  This kicks in your metabolism for the day and thus allows you to burn more calories throughout the day. (FYI, I love my Nordic Track.  Low impact, strenuous, work arms and legs at the same time, cheap to buy on eBay.)

2) Eat NOTHING after dinner, especially before you go to bed.  Anything you eat after dinner will inevitably get metabolized to fat as your body slows down.  It is a vicious reality that is hard to overcome with any amount of exercise or diet, you just can’t eat in the evening.

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3) Drink LOTS of water!  Again, it helps with a healthy metabolism, helps with hunger pangs, and just makes your body run better. Drink a glass at every meal, and at least one when you wake up, in between meals, and when you go to bed.

These three things are about the only changes I made in my lifestyle to lose the weight and keep it off.  I wish I had followed it when I was younger. I might have been bionic! 🙂

Stay strong and follow your passions! Aging is just an opportunity for more adventures. Make sure your body is up for the journey.

And might I note as someone who spends most of his time helping those with PTSD and others effected by trauma and poor mental health – physical fitness is one of the best things you can do for happiness and mental resiliency.  It is no coincidence that your physical fitness can go to pot when you are depressed.

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    Altieres

    October 23, 2013

    Hello. My name is Robyn and I live in Oklahoma City, OK. I am a student at Southern Nazarene University doing some post graduate work on the Vietnam War specifically the films and books about the Vietnam War. First of all, thank you for your blog. I am glad to see that you have written so much about Vietnam it is so important to archive this for history! I came across your site as I am doing research for a paper I’m writing. I’m specifically writing about the impact John Wayne had on young men and how his films affected the expectations of what soldiers going to Vietnam thought their war experience would be like. If you have the time I’d love to hear your thoughts. Did your dad grow up watching John Wayne movies? Do you know if he thought Vietnam was going to be like what he had grown up seeing in the movies? Thank you for your time. Wishing you all the best today.

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