The Road to Ultra

I enjoyed the feedback from my post about Bacteria: Secret to Weight Loss? post the other day. If you have a chance, head on over and read the feedback.

Since we often hear the bad news about the horrible obesity epidemic and the struggle to stop it, I thought I’d share a little bit of good news. It looks like we’re making progress! Obesity statistics for 2003 through 2005 for adolescent aged and younger children appear to have leveled off. While that still leaves us with 1 out of 3 overweight and a staggering 3 out of 20 obese, it means the rate is not growing … if we’ve indeed stabilized it, we can focus on reversing the trend and making those numbers go down!

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Is bacteria the key to weight loss? Because my Lose Fat, Not Faith Transformation Guide, while primary a “personal development” book because it focuses on the mindset necessary to achieve success, is also considered more of a “diet/fitness” or “weight loss” category, I keep track of the top sellers in this area.

I was a little dubious when I saw the top spot for eBooks was being rapidly overtaken by a program called …

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I don’t know how long it will be before people take diet and exercise seriously, but we’re not quite there yet. People still view being overweight as a "cosmetic" decision and seem almost proud of their unhealthy eating habits. Even more disturbing is the people who are "in good shape" and look fit and healthy, but don’t exercise and have poor diets. There is a myth in our culture that being that way is somehow healthy - research suggests otherwise (someone who is overweight but exercises and eats healthy is 2 1/2 times less likely to have a heart attack than someone of "normal weight" who doesn’t, according to one study).
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I came across an interesting article today that confirmed what we pretty much suspected for a long time - that the number of your fat cells are fixed in number. What’s strange is how they came across it.

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Back here with a continuation of my journal.

Did I give up on the 12-week challenge? Not at all, I just realized that 12 weeks wasn’t a convenient container for the program I’m building, as it’s going to last longer. My New York vacation was a good week of active rest, so now I’m embarking on another workout cycle that will last 10 weeks (70 days) and I figured it would be easiest to journal it here.

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