If you are like me, then you constantly struggle with eating
healthy. I can be very good with my nutrition
when I am trying to lose weight, but when I am trying to maintaining my weight,
I justify poor eating with the amount of exercise I do. I end up gaining the weight back and the
vicious cycle begins.
Jordan Ring is an author and creator of Fiberguardian.com, TwoHikersHiking.com, and his author page JMRING.
He made the decision to become healthier after receiving news at a doctor’s
visit and it has resulted in tons of research, eventually leading to Jordan
writing four books (The
Fiber Guardian’s Favorite High Fiber Foods, The
Action Diet: 35 Practical Weight Loss Tactics as Chronicled by the Fiber Guardian,
Now
What? Getting Unstuck in a Sticky World: How Taking Action is the Key to
Unlocking Your Ultimate Potential, and his latest book Peace
with Sweets: the Healthy & Fresh Way to Manage Sugar Intake and Reduce
Sugar Cravings). The following is a
guest blog post from Jordan about his past.
If you like what Jordan wrote, please head over to his page and show some
support. His first book is available on
Amazon from free (Kindle version).
Hey runners,
I just wanted to start by
thanking Brian for letting me have the opportunity to share with all of you.
Brian was an instrumental part of the launch team for my most recent book, and
he asked me to share a little bit about myself and the book here.
While I am definitely NOT a
marathon runner by any means, I do run on occasion. I am also a very active
person, and I always have been. I grew up playing tennis with my family, and I
spent my college years tossing around a Frisbee disc. Fortunately, getting out and
running around has never been a problem for me. I have always enjoyed the
feeling of the wind on my face and have plenty of history ruining clothes
through grass stains.
The problem? Nutrition. I used
to stuff my face with chicken nuggets, french fries, and ice cold mountain dew every
day after school. And then a few hours later I would eat supper. I don’t how I
found the room for it all, and the “you’re a growing boy” comment was used too
frequently. I should have known that that excuse would run its course
eventually.
I also made the same mistake
that many people do every day. I walked around dehydrated and ultimately
malnourished. As we all know, your body can fight off weight gain for a while
when you are younger, but after college I found out that I could not out-exercise
my poor diet. My weight slowly crept up and I could not manage it through
working out.
I upped the intensity of my
workouts at 4-5 times per week, but never changed what I was eating. I
continued to eat pizza, drink soda, and load up on junk food. Looking back, I
wonder why I never stopped. I truly wonder what was going on in my head that led
me to continue destroying my body like I did.
My metabolism was catching up
with me big time and all of the junk food was finding a solid place on my 6
foot 4 frame. Since I was that tall, the weight was spread out, and I always
had multiple people tell me “hey you’re not fat, you’re just a big guy.” Well,
260 pounds is not healthy even at 6’4.
I needed to up my water intake
substantially, and replace many of the foods I was eating on a regular basis
with healthy ones. I knew what I needed to do, but I just struggled to do it. I
could not, and would not, make the change I knew that I needed to make.
It finally took a moment in time
when my doctor told me I needed to make a change and that I was officially
“obese.” I started down a new path right away. Upon her direction I researched
and started on a high fiber diet, and never looked back. There were setbacks
along the way, of course, but that day changed things for me. I became dedicated to living a different kind
of lifestyle; one that was geared towards healthy living and healthy choices.
Fast forward to the present day…
I am as healthy as ever. I am still active, but I choose my diet much more
carefully. I am able to indulge once in a while in a piece of chocolate cake
and not get bent out of shape. I can eat my wife’s delicious triple chunk
brownies and not feel guilty.
My philosophy is one in which we
can still eat the foods we like, if only we can learn balance. Balance in
regards to eating is one of the most difficult things to actually do. Because
we are constantly tempted to eat poorly, we must always be on guard and have a
plan.
My book; entitled “Peace with
Sweets: The Healthy & fresh way to manage sugar intake and reduce sugar
cravings”, describes how to construct that plan.
In it, I share the methods I
utilize to crush the sugar beast and at last find peace with sweets.
Begin your journey towards sugar reconciliation today.
There is no reason why your
addiction to sugar needs to get the best of you. If you are truly willing to
see a change and want to come to a point of peace, it is possible.
If you have any questions or
would like to read more about me, go to my author blog page at www.jmring.com.
I would be glad to connect with you.
His book, the Peace
with Sweets: the Healthy & Fresh Way to Manage Sugar Intake and Reduce
Sugar Cravings, does a great job of explaining different types of sugars
and how your body breaks them down in a way that is easy to understand. I really liked how Jordan helped clarify how
to read labels. Companies have become
very sneaky in how they disguise sugars with cute names, so what you think is
healthy is still using bad sugars.
Jordan goes into which foods are good and bad as well as
food prep and how to make a plan to beat the “Sugar Beast.” I hope you like the book as much as I did.
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