I love getting up in the morning. I’m hopping out of bed because I know I’m getting ready to weigh. This morning I had lost another 2 pounds for a total of 5.8 lbs in 3 days! All because of the Jack LaLanne diet! I read on the internet last night that he had heart valve surgery and is doing very well. Not many 95 year olds can make it thru heart valve surgery, and if Obama passes this God-awful health care plan poor Jack would not have been eligible if he needed it in the future. But that’s another story. I wish Jack LaLanne a speedy recovery(which I’m sure he will have) and many more years of healthy living.
I have been walking every day on a treadmill…usually about one hour and I usually burn about 280-300 kcal. I am starting to enjoy walking. I go to a gym that has the treadmills and elipticals with their own individual tv’s so I get engrossed in a show or movie and the time just flies by.
“Trust Yourself”(page 6) of Jack’s book, “The Jack LaLanne Way To Vibrant Good Health” discusses family, friends or coworkers in your life who may question why you are beginning to diet, exercise and persue a life of postive actions. Change can be scary or unsettling for some when they see someone they know begin the road to discipline and self-improvement. Jack published this book in 1960 at age of 46. He talks about some of the guys he hung out with in high school so I am guessing his senior year would have been 1931 or 1932. Some of his friends called him “muscle man” or “health nut”. His yearbook cartooned him running for a touchdown with a bunch of carrots under his arm. He said “I was considered a crackpot”. Jack mentions that he recently(in 1960) saw one of his friends and barely recognized him. His friend had had a stroke and had left-sided paralysis and was dragging his left leg and having difficulty with speech. That was 49 almost 50 years ago! The longevity that Jack has enjoyed and note, positively enjoyed is worth mulling over. Jack graduated high school 79-80 years ago and is still going strong! And survived heart valve surgery! Incredible man and incredible motivation.
