What's this "health journey" all about?

So the first question I guess I would have to answer is why they heck am I doing this? After a little soul searching I have come up with two very different reasons:

• To create a dialogue and hopefully educate others on health related issues that I have been learning about,
  
  
• To create a line in the sand and motivation to stay on my new "get back in shape" plan.

Nothing like a good combination of altruism and pure selfishness to motivate you to do something.

With these goals in mind I plan on documenting my daily routine to "get back in shape" and along the way add in some resources and items of interest for others who may be going down the same path. Hopefully, my daily ramblings will help motivate folks and the other health related articles will provide a solid backdrop for discussion.

A little more about me:
I am a 36 year old father of two and happily married. I used to be very active and played multiple sports including volleyball, basketball and hockey. As is the case with most folks, in the last 10 years I have slowly put on weight and have not been able to find the time to play sports or exercise in any way. Blame it on the desk job, lack of time, lack of motivation, whatever.... the end result is that I am now getting pretty darn overweight!

Tale of the tape
Height - 6' 2"
Weight - 210 lbs.
Waist - 42"
Chest - 41 3/4"
Bicep - 13"

Not severely overweight, but I do have a nice sized "beer belly" (as I do love beer!) and have started to notice my energy level go way down. I figured it was time to get a handle on this or it would quickly spiral out of control and I would begin to see other more serious health problems. Hence, the idea to "get back in shape"... and for some odd reason start a blog to talk about it.

The Plan:
So once I decided to do this I of course had to come up with a plan, as I am extremely "plan" oriented. As I researched.. and researched... and researched the "best" way to get back in shape I began to realize that this was yet another way to avoid the actual doing.

About this time, my wife suggested that we both start doing a new program she found called "8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Shed up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed" by Jorge Cruise (remember this name.. it will come up in later posts).

Of course my first thought was "8 minutes.. yeah right". My next thought was "8 minutes.... I just might be able to manage that". So we purchased the book and began reading the intro chapters and learing about the program.

I will probably do a more thorough review in a latter post, but the 20 second review goes something like this:

• Do just 8 minutes of strength training each day
• Build muscle mass and thus increase your matabolism
• Eating a more healthy diet, including more "good" fats
  
• Lose about 2 pounds per week.. and keep it off.

Sounds very simple and straight forward.. maybe too simple. The skeptisism is definitly in full effect right now, but I figure you have to just try something or you will never get results. So the Journey begins...