Moving Forward

I recently posted that this blog was coming back to life.  As a tool for me to share my personal fitness journey it has been so helpful. Not only helpful to me, but to the people around me that have also taken up their own personal fitness challenges. However, I feel like this blog is just one piece of the fitness puzzle, so I am going to launch a new website soon. On it will be my continued fitness journey. It will include food, workouts, cardio, and, most importantly, the inspirational/spiritual/mental goodness that often didn't get shared on this blog. It will be a total life fitness website/blog.

I'm hoping to bring in another blogger or two to help share other stories.  I don't see my fitness journey as the journey all should take. I see it as my path, and other people sharing their paths can help me along mine and maybe help yours.

How I started on my journey.

Me at 40.

-D

Lentil Spaghetti

When I started my "physical transformation" I started two blogs. The first was called The Fleet Vegan. On it I was looking to develop alternative recipes to common favorites that could be made quickly and easily for busy people. I got rid of the blog because everyone started associating me only with vegan food (and I'm not a vegan). Plus, I wanted to be inclusive of other things besides just recipes. I was changing my exercise life and my way of thinking (I've become Mr. Life Affirming since those out of prime shape days). The Fleet Vegan format just was complementary to work out posting. It was too food concentrated.

When I started the blog, I made a few silly little cooking demonstration videos. This guy is one of them:

Back @ It!

My fitness has suffered since my 40th birthday. This is partially due to a thumb and wrist injury that left me unable to do so much as a push up for nearly three months. The lack of exercise affected my mental state as well.

Unable to skate or lift, I quickly gave up running and cardio kickboxing. Then my diet started to suffer as I started allowing myself little cheats that led to big cheats that nearly led to being back in the same old fattening routine.

I'm bringing back my public blog to help motivate myself once again. What was supposed to inspire me to the age of forty will serve as my public inspiration through my forties.

Luckily, my thumb is healed and I can workout again. My diet is back on track (there was a three week period that wasn't so good). And the blog is back! I'm writing for Memphis Health and Fitness Magazine now (extra inspiration!), and I want to build this blog to be a supplement to my writing for the mag.