I finished reading "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg this week and near the end of the book when the author was explaining how people change habits, I started thinking about change. I started wondering why we humans are so resistant to change when it is constant and ongoing. After all, its when we decide to change that we have the opportunity to become the person we want to be.
On June 11th, I changed from vacation mode to work mode and what a shock that was. You can see my weight information in the bar to the right. At 169.2 pounds my weight was up almost 9 pounds from my pre-vacation weight. I figured that if I got back on my regular program I would get back to my goal range rather quickly which is what happened the following Monday.
I've also been examining my ego lately. It seems rather ego centric for me to sit here and write about my weight all the time. I realize the world is not centered around me. I guess my feeling is that while I have changed quite a lot over the past 40 years, I know that my abilities are quite average. My message is, and the purpose of this blog is, to let others know that the type of lifestyle changes I have had some success with over this time are quite achievable. It all starts with the decision to change.
