Live natural, live healthy
Focus for a moment and try to strip away everything new from the last few years, decades, centuries then millenniums. The internet, machinery, television, Skin tightening, cars, planes and trains all vanish as do cities, empires, kings and emperors. When it is all gone we are left with you, me, the air we breath and the beautiful planet we live upon.
This is what I did and I tried to focus on that what we can learn and take from this to ensure I live a healthy and fit lifestyle with what nature has given us and in a way nature intended.
This essentially boiled down to my diet and my exercise.
Being in my forties I became already knew how hard it was to stay trim and fit. I started eating less and visiting the gym a little more and I began running regularly. This showed some positive results but I felt I could do more. I also felt I could do it better, cleaner, more naturally.
Looking at how humans have evolved and how technology has taken over it was easy to see that the diet we eat today was not designed for us and that there is a huge amount of misinformation out there. I took a leap of faith after discovering variants of the Atkins diet and I went back to what our ancestors ate, what we are designed to eat. My diet became dominated by fat, in fact over half my diet is now fat with the rest mostly protein and hardly any carbohydrates.
The results were amazing. I essentially went from burning sugar as my main fuel source to burning fat and the body fat I had been holding on to for sol long just started to melt away.
With the results I was getting I was inspired to further seek out nature in my fitness regime and now love to run barefoot by the local river and through the woods. Yes I have to be careful not to tread on anything and I would not recommend it lightly however the feeling of being at one with nature is one I would not swap. I vary my running from slow to sprint in the same way a hunter gatherer would from 100,000 years back and I regularly stop to exercise with logs and branches.
I have never felt better in my life, I have never, I am sure, been healthier and I definitely would not swap my diet, my natural gym and especially my results for a burger and chips and a sofa after the exercise bike.
Best of all… I have that elusive six-pack!