My Quest:

Today is November 30, 2015 and I just got back from Wash.state and Idaho visiting our 2 sons and 4 grandchildren for thanksgiving. I have been eating mostly nutritarian since march 11 of this year. I weighed 275 then, down from my top of 283 since I broke my ankle Dec. of  2013. I felt awful. I hurt in all my joints. my eyes were starting to bother me all the time, itching, redness, blurry at times. I was on high blood pressure medication and could barely walk around the block. My back was the worst pain I had. I could barely stand up for 5 minutes without it having excruciating sharp pain in one spot. I was still recovering from the broken ankle even though it had been over a year since I broke it. I decided that morning laying in bed that I was the only one who could change my life. I had read the Eat to Live book a couple times and dabbled with the diet but hadn't made the commitment. The first 2 days were hard until I got rid of toxic hunger, I was not a vegetable lover but I ate vegetables, fruits, legumes and some nits. I started feeling better within the first week. I got off my blood pressure med. in about a month. and  my back and joints felt so much better. Today I weigh 224. I'm up 2 pounds from thanksgiving because although I ate vegetables every day, I ate the traditional food also.  I had watched the movie Wild when it came out then watched it again on HBO and wanted the book so I ordered it and read it. I was inspired to do something like that but since I am 60 and am sure it would damage my back to carry a heavy pack it is out of the question. Plus, I don't have any desire to camp for days. I don't have to work outside of the home so I have the time to do whatever I want exercise wise. I had worked up to walking an hr at a time. I would go to a casino here in Las Vegas where we live and walk and climb the equivalent of 30 flights of stairs for an hr. I also had just started biking for the last month a few times since it isn't too hot now.
    I got it in my head that I should start exercising as much as I could and really push myself. I would be able to sleep in my comfy bed at night, not in a tent. I would be able to cook nutritatian meals and sit in a recliner once in a while to rest. So today I got up and did the Jane Fonda complete workout dvd. It uses weights and has an aerobic section also. I plan to do this Mon.,Wed., and Fri. Tuesday and Thur. mornings I will walk for an hr. so I keep my ankle working, also I was born with a club foot on the other side so it helps to keep the tendons in that leg stretched and working better. The rest of all the days. I will be biking as much as I can. I plan to start out to do 2 hrs. a day, so that would be a total of 3 hrs. then in Jan. I will pick it up to 4 and in Feb., 5 hrs. an day. I know this isn't as hard as Cheryl Strayed worked but It is a challenge for me and I will be happy if I can do this. I want to lose faster than I have been and get more stamina to have a fuller life. I am excited and a little apprehensive to make this kind of commitment. I will be eating vegetables and  a pomegranate for breakfast soon. drinking water throughout the day. I want to keep track of what I eat and how much I exercise on this journey. I don't expect anyone to read this since it will be boring to anyone else but I want a record and to see just how far I can push myself since I feel so much better from the Eat to Live diet. I better get off  here, eat my breakfast and start biking. :)