There are weeks when everything seems to need something at the same time. Work pulls one way, family pulls another, the house has its own list, and your body has opinions. Then there is whatever project you are trying to build, whatever problem you are trying to solve, and whatever part of life you keep telling yourself you will get back to when things calm down. The trouble is, things do not always calm down on schedule.
There comes a point when the old tricks stop working the way they used to. You can still push through a long day, get things done, and tell yourself “I’m fine”—close enough to keep moving. But somewhere in midlife, the body starts adding footnotes: a stiff back after sitting too long, a headache that might be dehydration, a bad night’s sleep that turns into three days of brain fog, or knees that negotiate before they cooperate.
In the ’80s getting food from the grocery store instead of the garden became the norm. Growing up in the inner city of Arkansas, it was just life, not the beginning of something bigger. Somewhere along the way, the word processed started getting treated like a curse word. A lot of what fills the grocery store now is not food in the old sense.
Hi my name is Glen. I have been an over-eater for most of my life. There was a time when I could eat almost anything, in huge portions, keep moving, and not think about what that food was doing to me once it got past my mouth. That does not mean I was eating well. It just means my body was younger, louder, and better at covering for me. Now, the bill comes much faster. Miss a meal, eat the wrong thing too late, eat something that burns quick and disappears, and the body sends a memo before the day is over.
Below is an interview I did with Wondr Health aka Naturally Slim back in 2020 or 2021 my brain can’t remember. When I joined in 2019, I understood the program as a behavior-change program, not a diet.
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