Step Away From the Cake

I meditate every day using the Calm app. All I do is 10 minutes of timed meditation with some soothing background noise. For the longest time, I had some mountain sounds; birds and running water; as my background sounds. But today I switched it up and had gentle ocean waves as my background noise. It's surprising how many memories it brought up. Memories of living on the beach at Kualoa. We lived there for 13 years and there are a whole lot of memories attached to that place. Big memories, like parties and days spent on the beach and in the ocean. Little memories, like the animals we had there and the good times. But what struck me so much was how we don't realize that we are making memories. I spent a lot of time hating living there, for a variety of reason, but still, it was a really good 13-year run. I did a lot of triathlon training there. I ran 2 marathons there. It was a good time. I guess as I'm getting older, I tend to look back a lot. I've had a pretty good li

As I look back on all previous times I've lost a significant amount of weight, there is generally one common thread. Walking. Back around 1995, I lost a lot of weight training for the marathon and, you guessed it, I walked it. Around 2001 I lost a significant amount of weight again. You guessed it, I was leading hiking tours so I was walking a lot. This was the time I was in probably the best shape of my life. This is also when I started running and doing triathlons. I was in amazing shape and so freaking active. One of the things I loved doing then was hiking. I would park at the Pali lookout and hike through there. I would also go to Waimanalo and hike there a few days a week. It was awesome. I loved it. Then I started Crossfit and everything changed. I can't completely blame Crossfit for everything that happened to me, part of it is genetics and part is just basic biology. But when doing Crossfit I was constantly aching. Constantly tired. Constantly injured in one way or an