How's my breath?

So…how am I supposed to explain the last three months I spent in absentia? Well…I have had a cough coupled with a stuffed-up face. Ummm…I’ve been pretty busy? How about a nasty computer virus that wolfed down my hard drive? Broken fingers?
You’ve got to admit that these are all good excuses; however, I am sensing that nobody is buying into any of them. If I am forced to present a bona fide reason for skipping out on my blogging activities I would have to say this:
I am finding that I can come up with, or even be inspired to present sound and compelling methodology for losing weight and being healthy, but in practice I am finding that the gusto I have doesn’t quite match the gusto I need. I feel almost like I am saying to the entire world “look at me, Mr. Fatguy, I know everything there is to know about losing weight and inspiring people to be healthy, yessiree I do. Can you even notice that all this knowledge is getting me nowhere – I’ve gone all the way from fat to…fat. Nothing has changed.”
To summarize the hiatus – Too much talk and not enough action has put me in an uncomfortable spot. I don’t much like pretending I am something that I am not.
Have I given up?...Not even close. I continue as a regular patron to Gold’s Gym, I haven’t partaken of carbonated beverages since the great day of abstention, my food choices have improved, and although I haven’t completely refrained from partaking of chocolaty substances, I have made significant reductions in the frequency of such partakings. So what gives? Why am I finding such struggle with shedding these extra pounds? I think I have found the answer to my own question…stay tuned.
The other day while talking with my wonderful wife, Julie, an interesting principle came to my mind. I am going to call it the ‘bad breath principle’ or BBP, for short. Have you ever been face to face with a person that has horrific, disgusting, and offensive stench escaping from his or her mouth? If you have ever been faced with this unfortunate situation – you have undoubtedly asked this question to yourself “doesn’t this dude know that his own pie hole reeks like a freaking outhouse?” The reality of the situation is that the dude doesn’t know that his breath resembles the fetor of a cesspool. For some odd reason he can’t smell his own breath. So, how does this relate to a healthy lifestyle? The other day, as Julie and I were talking, I humbled myself and asked her the question “take a deep look into my life and tell me what you think my problem with losing weight is. Without expounding the details of what followed, I will summarize her answers to that question. I am a stress eater, I am snacking myself to fatness, I find a tremendous amount of comfort from any and all of life’s situations when by belly is full or being filled. Are you following the correlation to the BBP? I basically asked “how’s my breath?” She frankly replied “mighty stinky”. I doubt that I would have ever discovered on my own these underlying, but legitimate, reasons for me being overweight.
The last thing that I want to mention today is that it is very difficult to pursue a healthy lifestyle without first having a proper definition of what a healthy lifestyle is. It works best to ponder the different desired elements of a healthy lifestyle: a morning bike ride, hitting the gym, eating healthy fruits, veggies, & grains, frequent romps to the mountains. Then jot them down on a paper and set goals and come up with a plan to achieve them. For me, the next step in this grand quest is to gain a better understanding of the triggers in my life that cause me to seek comfort in eating and counter them or find a better way to deal with them.
If anyone can ‘smell my breath’ from where you sit – let me know.
Happy brushing!