About ‘The Husky Kid’

Time to drop the winter pounds. I am going to be adding my up’s and down’s in attempt to keep myself accountable to this diet. Oh Wait – I guess diet isn’t the right term. Let’s call it changing my life style. Feel free to drop me notes of advice or encouragement. Oh heck you can be critical too if that’s your style. I’m tough I can handle it.

Here’s my story;

I grew up in rural Ohio, brother a son to a good family. Like everyone our family had our struggles. My dad worked hard to allow my family to have all the things we needed. He was never home, but he was a dependable source of stability for our family. My mother was stay at home mom. She was amazing and took very good care of us. She worked with what she had. She showed us what it was to be loved and to love. I always felt safe at our home. My mother’s side of the family came from West Virginia. While I love the country lifestyle, the food choices where well, shall we say un-healthy a best. I crew up on bacon grease and potato’s. I was a member of the clean plate club from a very early age. We knew nothing of portion control. If you put it on your plate, you better not waste it. Now, I don’t blame my family, they just didn’t know any better. I carried these bad habits into adulthood. I’m working on kicking the ‘clean plate club’.

I have always been a healthy over weight boy, as if that is possible. . I have never had heart, lung, blood pressure issues or diabetes. I have always been lucky. My skeleton has been worked over a time or two, but thats what sports and getting ran over by a vehicle will do to you. I still have my health. I will turn 37 this year. There has been quite a few of my relatives that I truly loved and depended on that hat their lives cut short by poor decisions and poor choices. Their precious lives where cut short by diseases that in my opinion could have been avoided. I don’t want to fall into that same path. I want to give my body all the help it needs to stay around for many years to come. I want to grow old with my adorable wife and see what our precious kids become. I will be honest, I want grandchildren. I want to spoil and let them know they will always have me to depend on.

In 2002 I married the love of my life. She remains the most incredible person in my life to this day. She is amazing. She however is a bean pole. I am certain that she can what ever she wants and it never sticks. She benefits from good genetics. She does her best to look out for me, but lets face it good food is bad for you. She is a Pizza Lover, therefore we have pizza once a week. This is going to be a hard habit to break.

Like I said I have always been overweight, I just want to remain healthy. The breaking point for me was when I was trying to eradicate a spider from the kitchen cabinet and because of my size I became short of breath and had to stop. That woke me up.

I have done this lose weight / gain weight roller coaster before, but I think with everyone’s help and this blog I will stay with it. Please keep the encouragement coming. I need all the help I can get.