Life is full of suffering. Life is the struggle against oneself for the creation and transcendence of being into something greater. This is not easy and often involves doing things we don’t want to do...

One of the most important things to have in life, the thing that will help us stay on track are goals. Creating goals for ourselves helps give ourselves guidance and keep us on track towards the type...

Not so long ago it was easy to get me off track and stop me from doing positive things in my life. When I would face resistance against positive goal like weight loss, I would quit. I listened to...

The most powerful force in your life is the power of momentum. Think about your day to day lifestyle. Do you deliberately choose to do certain things every day or do you do things that align with what...

I recently took a trip with a group I am a part of to Texas. I had never been there before and didn’t know what to expect, although we always try to have a good time. I decided to do another road...

I used to always run from anything that could cause me pain and discomfort. The issue is the pain I was running from was growing pains. This is a temporary discomfortable sensation we all must go...

In 2021 things seemed like they were still out of hand in the world (not that they are much better). We initially took a trip to the grand canyon of PA (they’re just big hills) and Gettysburg PA...

Our culture values sloth and hedonistic pleasures above all else. Many so called achievements by most peoples standards revolve around the ability to do nothing of value. I used to be addicted to...

No matter what we do in life it will come at the price of not doing something else that we could have done. We all start out with a seemly infinite number of possible realities or selves. As we get...

When I started thinking about weight loss and dieting often I would put it off until “tomorrow”. The thoughts “I’ll start my diet tomorrow”, “Tomorrow is just at good as today anyway”, and “There...

One of the keys to my weight loss has been a relatively low calories, protein and nutrient dense shake I make. I add frozen, or sometimes fresh fruit. I would highly recommend getting a real powerful...

I was able to visit Yellowstone National Park in 2022. We went on a road trip to get there, I probably do road trips a little differently than most. I like to map out where I’m going and...

When I was fat my primary concern was temporary comfort and this was coming at the cost of my future. Sometimes things are just good enough where you may not be happy but they’re not so bad that you...

I used to consume foods that had a lot of oil. Even when I would try to eat healthy salads, I always had oily salad dressing with it. Vegetable and other seed oils are a major part of the “Western”...

My absolute favorite food used to be pizza. I would crave it every day and on days that I didn’t eat it sometimes I would have dreams about eating it. I didn’t know this at the time but that was all...

When starting to lose weight, I started tracking calories. I used to drink lots of pop, sweet tea, and always had sweet flavored creamers in my coffee. I was consuming hundreds of unnecessary calories...

     Over the course of a little over two years I was able to lose and keep off 125 pounds. It was a struggle, especially getting the momentum going to lose the weight. Almost two years...