Life After 50 - Cool, Smooth & Tasty

November is Men's Health Awareness Month.  Men, getting regular health screenings is not just about you.  It's about those who depend on you.  You owe it to them and yourself to get regular check ups to ensure you stay on top of health issues before they become a dangerous problem.  

Annual physicals, blood work, prostate and colon screenings and mental health checks are all things you can do proactively to stay healthy and be around a long time for those you love and who love you.  Get it done. 

Restrictive diets that allow for cheat days don't work.  They actually reinforce the very bad habits you're trying to change.  How? Cuz the diet itself makes you miserable and the cheat day allows you to go overboard doing what you've always done.  What do you think wins out in the long run? Yep. You revert back to your old habits because you're sick of the diet misery. Changing habits over time is the only real way to achieve consistent healthy results.

This episode builds off my last one as it relates to the best way to achieve consistent weight loss and successfully maintaining it.  The combination two tools, a calorie counting app and a fitness tracker, are what have allowed me to successfully lose and maintain weight and keep a healthy lifestyle. Listen in and see if this combo will work for you.

Does your diet work? Sort of? Does your weight rise and fall in a certain range that you can't seem to break out of?  You reach a certain low weight and you can never get any lower and then it starts to rise again so you start the cycle over?  

Plateauing is a common thing in weight loss.  Here's what I did to break thru mine and finally take my weight lower than I ever had before.

Once you pass 50, is it really a good look to wear a player jersey for your favorite sports team?  Let's have some fun and discuss it.  

Officiating sports as a way to stay fit mentally and physically.  It also provides access to a community of like minded folks and it serves the community you live in.  I highlight the benefits of being a sports official and being in your 50's is the perfect time to sign up and join in this rewarding and fun avocation.

Being a new empty nester feel s strange and brings with it 2 major gaps that we need to look to fill: an emotional gap and a time gap.

In this episode I provide some perspective on what I feel being an empty nester for about 6 weeks and some suggestions on how to fill those 2 major gaps. 

Cool, smooth and tasty.  What does that tagline mean and how does it fit into Life After 50?  We discuss that and more in our first episode.

Who am I? Why am I doing this? What can you expect as a listener? What is life after 50 years old supposed to look like or feel like? Take a listen!

Super excited to launch this podcast and build a community of what I hope are regular and engaged listeners.  Welcome!