15 years of blogging – exercise and weight loss

If anyone out there has followed this blog for the full 15 years, they will know that I have written about exercise and weight loss often.  One stimulus involved my own journey to finally have extremely successful weight loss (starting Memorial Day weekend 2013) of 35-40 pounds.  The weight loss took a year and I can safely brag that my weight this morning was at the level when I declared victory! My writings, readings and personal experience have taught me much.  Weight loss requires persistence, a great game plan, and perhaps some good genetic fortune.  Weight loss maintenance requires the same things. What follows is my personal journey.  It may or may not help you.  Please steal any concepts that you think will help.  I doubt that anything I write here is original, but it is my story. Fortunately, I did not gain much weight until my 40s and 50s.  Until then I was an addicted basketball player.  Basketball gave me considerable aerobic endurance activity, making weight control much easier.  At age 44 I realized that injuries occurred too often, and took too long to resolve. I dabbled in a variety of exercise methods over the next 20 years.  I had several personal trainers; I often used elliptical machines; I dabbled in using exercise bikes.  But my exercise did not become routine enough.  Slowly I reached a weight that I really did not like. We flew to Santa Fe for a wedding and I resolved to start my weight loss program.  My initial plan included 8 pounds of ...
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