It's not a Race, it's a Marathon...

So the last week or so I've been walking everywhere. And when I say walk I don't mean 2 blocks. I mean at least 5k a day. It's nice that now my pants fit better, but holy hell getting healthy sucks. You know, if it was enjoyable I think more people would do it.

This year (not as a New Years resolution mind you) I've decided to become healthy. I try to eat a healthy and balanced diet, I exercise and I'm looking into quitting smoking. The times when I'm not sore and miserable from the use of my very underused muscles I do feel much better.

And this isn't about the way I look. I like the way I look, I'm comfortable with my body and it's various assets and deficits. This is about the way I feel.

Now don't worry, I'm not going to turn into one of those crazy health nuts that insists on explaining that eating those potato chips will clog up your arteries and cause the equivalent of a nuclear meltdown in your digestive system. Though that would be funny.

No, I just want to do this for me. So that I feel good, have energy and hey maybe even live a few years longer than I would have otherwise. This is quite the challenge for me, as I've never before given much thought to my overall health. I pretty much did whatever I wanted, ate whatever I wanted... whenever I wanted to. Being health conscious is a shift in mentality I have so far noticed. It doesn't require counting calories or being obsessed with the .5 inches you put on over the last week. It requires you to be active, avoid excess and have fun, the last one being I think the most important.

If you're not enjoying your life than it really doesn't matter if you can stick to a 2000 calorie diet or if you go to the gym everyday. If you're not happy than you're missing out on the best part.

To sum up; I want to be healthy to better enjoy my life. And so far I think I'm doing a pretty good job. I haven't set myself any unreasonable limitations or goals, I just care now. And I would encourage everyone to do the same. You don't have to cut out 'junk food' or run for 10 miles everyday, just make sure that what you're doing is part of you being able to enjoy life now and 10, 20 or 50 years from now.

And now I'm going to drink more coffee.

Yeah right, like I would give up coffee?

Hardly.

Peace.