About Us & Our Health
Kay and I are pushing sixty and wanna stay active, so we’re taking action to make that possible and enjoyable for a long time to come. High time to combat the trend of more pain and less flame!
You have heard that sixty is the new forty, haven’t you? Propagated by fans of “The Boss” who just turned six-oh (Bruce Springstein).
We’ve been members of athletic clubs most of our adult lives, but never seem to achieve more than just get by reasonably well.
The last eighteen months have been a bitch. I retired (Kay was already retired), we moved to Florida full-time, moving our seven MPH boat 2,100 miles in eighty-seven days, after which we felt we deserved some major decompression.
Well, we got so decompressed that we nearly exploded! Fortunately, our livers and fat asses survived everything we threw at them. Now we have another chance to not do the wrong thing again…
It’s time to get off these fat asses and shape ‘em up, so here we go, kids.
Cheers!
Cap’n Gene and Admiral Kay
Well, ninety days or so after I wrote this initial commentary about our eroding lifestyle, we have, in fact, made a bunch of healthy lifestyle changes, succeeded in most of our initial (aggressive) education, fitness and nutrition goals (yes!).
The downside impact has been more a social one (“ain’t nothin’ for nothin’…”, as Pappy used to say).
Feelin’ good, but acknowledging we must be ever vigilant. Hard but not impossible. We’re stronger for it (mentally AND physically).
It is difficult to eat and drink healthy when all around you are still immersed in the lifestyle we so came to enjoy and regret. If it wasn’t easy, America wouldn’t be the most obese developed nation on the planet!
What to do? Keep movin’ forward. We minimize the ‘happy hours’ we attend and abstain (who knew it would be this hard?), but so far (knock wood), success.
Kay still struggles with the food thing – me, less so. She’s down fifty pounds and still crazed to keep goin’ down with only the occasional setback (we ARE still human, after all, and still enjoy life, just in a significantly different way).
We continue to turn our energies toward a more positive and productive path. Sometimes that means spending less time with old friends, more time with new. Mostly, people are really good about our challenging choices, and we sincerely thank those folks.
Our mantra… “It’s not a diet, it’s a LIFESTYLE CHANGE.”
Gotta go get ready to hit the gym, kids! Outa here!