Hello World! Been a while . . .

This whole trying to be healthy thing is hard!

I was on the wagon with the 4-Hour Body thing and that worked great. Then I fell off and gained half of what I lost! The fat I gained back was bad food choices and no running. My excuses were that I got really sick (I did, horrible month-long flu or something) and comfort food. BAD COMBO!

Then I started dragging my feet trying to get BACK on the wagon, by beginning to run at least a mile a day beginning September 10th, 2017. I've kept at it and was making big improvements up until about February when I screwed something up in my ankle and couldn't run. I could barely walk, but I continued walking at least a mile a day.

Here we are at the end of April, and I'm able to walk at least 3 miles with some discomfort. I can probably go further and I will try next weekend. As for diet . . .

As we should all know, weight loss starts in the kitchen. That was why I had been on 4HB. I re-learned about Ray Cronise again. Cronise was mentioned in the 4HB book when talking about maximizing weight loss with Cold Thermogenesis. The way it was explained, was using Michael Phelps as an example. When training, Phelps was eating 12K calories a day. There was no way he should have been as fit looking as he was eating all that. However, with some self experimentation, Cronise figured out that because Phelps was training in water that was at a lower temp than body-temp, he was expending more energy (calories) just by being in cold water for hours on end.

Juliana Hever wrote a book a while book called The Idiots Guide to The Plant Based Nutrition. She recently rewrote it with Ray Cronise under Idiots Guide: Plant Based Nutrition. The forward was written by Penn Jillette. PJ is one half the magician duo of Penn & Teller. He also dropped a crap-ton (actual unit of measure BTW) weight following a drastic diet plan by Cronise. He did it because he had a 98% occlusion of the Widow Maker artery of the heart.

And all this whole preamble started because of . . .

Kevin Smith.

On February 25th, Kevin Smith was shooting a new stand-up special for Showtime that is now set to air May 11th. He was going to do two shows. But from the story that I've now heard numerous times through the several Smodcast podcasts he has, he wasn't feeling too well. He was sweating profusely, nausea , couldn't get a full breath and it felt like something was on his chest. As the symptoms got worse (never painful, mind you), it was decided that the second show needed to be cancelled. As he's being checked out by the paramedics, they find that he's having a massive heart attack.

They get him to the ER, and Dr Daniel Eisenberg shoved a stent through his groin (femoral artery) and opened up the Left Anterior Artery with a stent. It was 100% blocked. Kevin said as soon as it opened up, it made a HUGE difference on how he felt. One thing that was kind of funny during this event was that Kevin was pretty blown (as in using the wacky tabacky, the devils lettuce . . . pot). The doctor asked him how he was so calm and Kevin pretty much told him he was high. The doctor then tells Kevin that's probably what saved him. I'm pretty much straight edge, but I have been reconsidering that lifestyle decision. My one vice is alcohol, bear and whiskey.

Kevin received the same advice all doctors give when one is overweight and nearly died of a heart attack. Lose a crap-ton of weight. I can't recall who got a hold of whom, but Penn gave Kevin Ray Cronise info. Kevin followed (is following) CrayRay's (Penn's nickname for Ray) diet plan and lost at least 30 pounds as of today.

Whole food, plant based nutrition.

 . . . to be continued . . .