So...why is it that we...or actually me, because this is an issue specific to me...have to wait until something is terribly wrong to take action? Yeah...well its that time again folks to play America's Most Popular Television Game Show...Force...Don...To...Do...Something! Hosted by your very own...dangerousdon!
Okay...yeah...this week I was trying to ease into things, kind of get ready to really bite down on this challenge and go for the gusto next week. Well, this week came with a lot of distractions and a lot of complacency. I too often get off the rails of my tasks and just say...oh well...I'll start again on Monday. Yup that was this week.
So I have had some lower back issues that I thought were confined to my lower back. I have had these for a couple of years now (okay it only manifested itself a couple of years ago), and for the most part I have worked on the lower back issues with strength training. And it has worked wonderfully. I have not been doing what I have been supposed to be doing probably the last four months or so...and I starting to feel it again.
I had some x-rays done yesterday of my back. Turns out...the whole spine is really messed up. Bone spurs in the neck, arthritis, bone on bone, compressed cartilage, and some other stuff I am probably forgetting at the moment. Years of humping 100 pounds on the back across whatever landscape I was at the time really took a toll on my back. Plus all the years that I didn't do anything to care of it probably didn't help anyway.
So...seeing the x-rays with literally vertebrae on top of vertebrae with nothing or little in between them...really hit me hard. This is not the way I wanted to start father-hood.
But these are the cards I have ben dealt right? I can either fold and lose the pot, or push every thing in and go all in.
I know this challenge is a weight loss challenge...But I would like to make it (at least for me) a get healthy thread. Losing weight will be a big part of it...but I need to do some other things. Evidently, stretching is just as important as strength training...yeah...I don't do enough of that. I need to do a better job at staying hydrated. I think the protein approach to my diet is spot on for this issue. But I will likely need to up my collagen intake. So, collagen powder and a lot of bone broth...her I come.
Anyway...I think I wrote all of this to say...no matter your situation...stop being complacent and take action now. It not only is my goal to live long. But I also wanted to feel young while growing old.
Push on brothers and sisters...push on hard!
