My Way to Stay Slim and Healthy
This article was sent in to us from a reader. Very inspiring! I am a 50 year old man and I am the same size today as I was when I was 15. People th...
This article was sent in to us from a reader. Very inspiring!
I am a 50 year old man and I am the same size today as I was when I was 15. People think I have some magic genetic reason that prevents me from putting on weight.
I’m just like anyone else. I’m just like anyone else, if I eat more than I need I put on weight. If I don’t take any exercise I know my weight will increase, just the same as it will for anyone. So my trick, which isn’t really a trick at all, is to only consume as much as I need.
A key aspect of the way that I maintain my weight is exercise. I don’t go to the gym, I don’t play any form of sports, I don’t go swimming and I don’t jog, so how to I maintain my youthful physique and remain fit and healthy? I use a technique I call passive keep fit.
What is ‘passive keep fit’ I hear you ask? Passive keep fit, for me, means getting exercise while going about my daily business. For example I will walk to my local shops rather than use my car. And when I walk I walk fast so that I get a little breathless. My visits to the shop take a little longer than they would if I’d used my car, but then I’ve burned some serious calories in the round trip whereas sitting in the car does nothing but make you fatter.
I use the same approach in buildings with lifts. I will always use the stairs and will often run up two stairs at a time to burn even more calories. Also, when sat in front of my computer screen at work, I’ll take a break and get a little upper body exercise by lifting myself on the arm rests maybe 10 or 20 times a few times a day.
Also, when I’m relaxing in front of the TV in the evening I break this up with a few abdominal scrunches (is that what they are called). This has helped me to retain my flat stomach and six pack, much envied by my friends who all have beer bellies.
When it comes to eating and drinking, I try to stick to a healthy diet. I don’t eat any junk food and when I do it is a very special treat. I actually get a lot more pleasure from resisting the temptation than I do from giving in. I have developed a habit of visualizing all that I have consumed in a day as if it was spread out on a table in front of me. This visualisation technique clearly highlights how many cups of tea and coffee I’ve consumed, whether I’ve eaten enough fresh fruit and vegetables and any other aspects of the days consumption that was less than ideal.
So I don’t count calories, I don’t work out in a gym and I don’t play sports. Yet I am the slimmest and fittest 50 year old man that I know, and I still look OK in my Quiksilver board shorts and my cool Rip Curl T-Shirts – which can’t be bad for a many of my age.
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