Welcome – Real Life In Real Time

How much hype surrounds diet and exercise?

Exactly, but you won’t find any here.

If you’re looking for authenticity, encouragement, hope, ideas, tips, and strategies to get healthier and stay healthier, welcome to Lane 8.

Friends once told me I don’t need to worry about diet and exercise. I shot back, “It’s because I DO worry about it everyday – that’s why it looks like that to you.”

I write short, pithy posts each morning about health matters. At 51, the results speak for themselves. I guarantee you’ll think differently about your health if you visit each day.

And different is what most most people need, because doing the same things and expecting different results, is….well….you know the saying….

What I can’t guarantee is if you’ll make slow and steady positive changes. That’s up to you.

If not today, when?

Okay, I said what needed to be said. This entry is longer than the daily posts, which usually take less than 30 seconds, but may resonate with you all day.

12 Reasons We Can’t Lose Weight

Temptation Is Everywhere...
Temptation Is Everywhere...

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is exceedingly challenging.

Anyone who tells you differently is lying.

These 12 tips may help you overcome your next little urge to quit, simply by helping you remember where our human weaknesses dwell.

Don’t do it.

Do not quit.

You can do it.

It will be difficult.

But years from now, you’ll be so glad you never gave up.

Bariatric Surgery

O Is For Obesity
O Is For Obesity

He did a cost benefits analysis to prove it would be cheaper to pay for his bariatric surgery than to let him continue on his path.

He lost 175 pounds, gained 25 back and has been holding steady for many years now. After they stapled his stomach, it went from the size of a football to the size of an egg.

We recently spent three days together and he assured me multiple times, he has no curtains on his johari window. And he also said he was addicted to food, after sharing that I had overcome an addiction.

What I couldn’t get out of my mind was the image of him carrying me piggyback. And not just across a small stream so my feet didn’t get wet, but carrying that 150 extra pounds every minute of every day.

Even when he was sleeping, or trying to, it would be like me lying on top of him – all 150 pounds.

He saved his own life.  He inspired me.  I count myself lucky to know the man.

We all have hard decisions to make. He did whatever it took.