So my blood pressure is too high. I am over 40 year's old. I am overweight. My waistline keeps getting bigger and bigger. It is a new month, the holiday is out of the way. Time to do it.
I have signed up on line to Men's Health Belly Buster's program. I bought the book. And beginning this morning I am taking significant steps to beat the belly.

So today is day one of the diet. I won't bore you with journal details. I just ask for some support and patience as I take some big steps to make some big changes and understand that it isn't about y'all for a while but instead it is all about me.

The theory is quite simple. Eat less. Eat right and exercise everyday. The reality is quite different. This is at least the fourth time I have convinced myself to get in shape and get healthy. I run with a pretty wreckless crowd of people. Folks who I am jealous of. They can party all day long for days at a time and still find time to stay in shape, eat right and exercise. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have that gene. I have a much more self destructive gene that allows me to party all right, but none of the "good" stuff follows to atone for my "sins."
The next three or four weeks are going to be difficult. Lot's of parties and events have been planned. I don't intend on skipping them, but I do intend on staying on course and not letting cheap beer and bar food distract me from what I must do to get my blood pressure under control.
In the past, I usually keep this up for about a week or so then find some very simple reason to let the whole affair fizzle. Generally the will power fades because of one or two instances of over indulgence. One or two instances of a hangover or a party I attended that resulted in sleeping in or fighting a hangover and letting that excuse put me off course.