… and every one after that.” Every one of us begins life in an environment we did not choose. We don’t choose our parents. We don’t choose our neighborhood. We don’t choose our school. We don’t choose the conversations that surround us during childhood. We inherit our first environment. For many people, that’s where the story ends. For me, it was where the story began. The Environment That Raised Me I grew up in a modest home in northwest Ohio. We weren’t wealthy. In fact, I didn’t even...

… The Visible Expression of Your Subconscious Programming… “Whether you repeatedly say ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ your mind begins building evidence to back that up.” In my last post, I explained that calories are simply energy. If you consume more energy than your body burns, the excess is stored as body fat lbs. It isn’t personal. It isn’t unfair. It’s physiology. But that explanation naturally leads to a bigger question. If the science is so straightforward, why do so many people struggle with...

This may be the most revealing and personally important blog I will ever post! Certainly it is very foundational, at least for me. That is me on my 68th birthday this year! At first glance, that quote sounds overly simplistic. But underneath it is a profound truth. Calories are nothing more than energy. Every time you eat, you're putting fuel into your body's tank. Fast foods, processed foods, sweets, are like putting dirty fuel in your gas tank. Your body has only two choices for that fuel:...