So here starts my record of exercise activity. For the most part I walk, with the occasional hill. I decided to increase resistance by walking in the sand at the beach. I live in North West Indiana next to the Indiana Dunes National Lake shore. On the beach I can take really long uninterrupted walks, and climb hills. Climbing sand dunes is very hard! Very good short high intensity workout.

It's kind of overcast, but I shot a simple video of the main hill next to the park pavilion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eA6mw0_XY
You'll have to click the link to see the video.

More pics and vids as I find things interesting.


A little history:

I happened upon the Paleo diet via the 5by5 network podcast Latest in Paleo by Angelo Coppola. I listened with great interest about this diet to reverse the horrible effects of a standard American diet. The healthy fat and organic foods really sound like the cure for me.

I'm a single 46 year old living in Northwest Indiana. Currently my health is failing. I am 320 pounds, have a fatty liver, high blood pressure and cholesterol. My poor health has started to show physically besides being fat, I have Stasis Dermatitis and an Enlarged Heart, which is very demoralizing. I'm on the typical full regimen of Statin and Beta blocker drugs, and other drugs to deal with the side effects. I have tried other diets, the Dr. Dean Ornesh diet was the last one, with demoralizing results, I just felt cravings and was hungry all the time. I had given up at this point, and went back to fast food, and just waited to have my heart attack/stroke and die.

I have not always been this way. I used to be really fit and active, hiking, climbing, boating, swimming etc. I lived to go outdoors and do stuff, go adventuring, feel the sun on my face. But, somehow I got away from that. I guess I got caught up in the work/car/drivethru/tv cycle that I let persist for years, 20 years! I have only myself to blame for getting like this, and I honestly want to get better, improve my health, and enjoy life again the way I used to.

P.S. It would be cool to embed the Youtube videos in the posts, but I think the mods need to activate this in the BB code options.

CMJ, try working in some jumping jacks with your push-ups, if you can tolerate the impact of landing.  They will kick up your heart rate and are pretty easy to do      .

Day 10 of the Paleo diet.

Today I got more exercise at the beach. Afterward relaxed on the beach and read more of the Paleo Solution book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBJUq8eoOI

Finally slept through the night, I think I'm finally adapting to the diet. I also picked up a blood pressure monitor. I am finally free of all blood pressure and cholesterol medications, so I want to track the blood pressure closely to see if it goes down with the diet.

Found 2 good sources locally for grass fed beef and farm raised animals and eggs. I'm skipping dairy, so it's just meat and veggies for the next few months.

Fitness wise, I have been a bit lax as far as doing the stretching and exercise at home, I just need to start a new routine I suppose. I'll work my way up to it. I am still waking at least 1-2 hours a day now.

I'm off to pick up some iron cookware, and some Magnesium supplements...
JIM

Day 11 of the Paleo diet.

Finally got the blood pressure monitor, but don't like the results. 161/103, which puts me as level 2, serious high blood pressure. I'll be checking it daily, so will see how it goes for the next week or so. If it keeps up I'll try to locate a new Paleo friendly doctor in my area for a treatment program that I can work my way off of eventually, and just stick with the diet and exercise to control the blood pressure.

I've just started taking a daily dose of liquid magnesium to help with the blood pressure ,but I don't think it's going to be enough. I'll have to get my weight down to 200 or so before I can look to go without medication. It was worth a try, I hate being so dependent on drugs, which is part of the motivation to lose the weight and get healthy again.

I have walked about 1 hour today so far, plan another hor tonight after work. No vid today, can't find stupid camera...

I'll check out Marks daily apply blog, I have heard it mentioned several times. I have very limited web access, so will just download a bunch of articles. I'll look into the yoga thing, I'm not big on group stuff, being a total introvert that I am.
JIM

Blood pressure still over 160/100 and I don't think it's going to come down by diet alone in my case.

It may well not until you get some weight off. I wouldn't consider it a loss if you need to take medication to control the condition. You know it'll be temporary, sort of like a band-aide or crutch, to help you get to where you need to be.

You're doing awesome! I need to get out and walk more myself!

Day 13 of the Paleo diet.

4 reps of 10 wall pushups
4 reps of 10 squats
4 reps of ten lunges

1 hour walk in the morning.

Will do another  1 hour walk in the evening.

Will be picking up some fish oil supplement and start loading up on omega 3's to help with my body using it's fat reserves more easily. Also picking up an iron supplement.

Misplaced camera again, searching....
JIM

Very nice videos. I subscribed to your channel.

:-D

Days 16-18

Flaked off this weekend. Purchased new iPad and spent all day Saturday setting it up and all night playing with the damn thing. Was planning a big walk on Sunday, but no sleep from iPad play destroyed that idea. I think this was the wrong time to get an iPad, a ipod would have been a much better choice so I can actually take it with me on walks.

Anyway, the weekend was a wast exercise wise. Slowly learning that I need a regular plan for this sort of thing, and get rid of distractions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBUr4KHhxG0

Next week I'll take that long beach hike!