I do love the Warrior Poet concept, but I'm going to say what we've all been thinking—Paul P. looks like he was carved out of granite. He and I share the white beard color and crow's feet, but I really look up to him—NOT a tasteless joke—about how fit us old dudes can get.
I can honestly say that quitting (crappy) carbs and sticking to a fasting plan has been the fight of my life. Quitting smoking and drinking both were much easier for me. Over the course of a career in management, I went from being a tradesman to a dude that parked at a desk all the time, even when I could've gotten out and walked around some. Now I work from home, and I'm forced to acknowledge that I have a discipline problem. I am doing the work on eating correctly, hitting the elliptical, and lifting; though I have found myself dusting off and getting back on the horse more times than I want to admit.
And while I'm working on the discipline, and I know we need it over "motivation", I find the thought of becoming another Battle Gnome a powerful inspiration.
Thanks, Paul
Hey Patrick,
Like I always say, it's not always the year but the mileage...and I've got some city miles on me. I can tell you that leaving government contracting a year and a half ago to go to work for WPS has challenged my level of discipline. Staying in shape was easy when all I had to do for 90 days at a time was work, workout, eat, and sleep. Now that I'm travelling 2 weeks a month, my training consistency has definitely suffered; I understand your struggle.
I've used intermittent fasting for health and body composition management back before everyone called it IF and I just called it skipping breakfast. Personally, I find not eating to be much easier than skipping cocktail hour in the evenings.
All you can do is try and be a little bit better tomorrow than you were today and the little bit you do today is better than the nothing you did yesterday.
Stay the course, my friend!
Paul
Paul, I’m happy to hear this about cocktail hour. I was wondering how we were going to get through our time together in Maine in July. Glad to find out we share another interest.
Holy shiite. A response from the Battle Gnome himself. How long have these Forums been up? How was I missing these before? lol. This is gold.
Seriously! I've been a WPSN subscriber since day one...........just noticed the forums.
Same with me, KB. Though I watch via the WPSN app on my TV's Roku virtually all the time. Now that I know about the forums, I can see me utilizing my laptop more often!
"Skipping breakfast" lol. A doctor told me that there is as much benefit to regular/consistent one-day fasting as there is for contiguous fasting. In other words, rather than fasting for 7 days, you fast one day/week for 7 weeks. Something like that. Said your body builds up a "memory" of each time you fast, and it works the same over time as if it was all together.
I recently started IF’ing and also pretty much look at it as skipping breakfast. Results have been promising so far.