{"id":36947,"date":"2019-05-10T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36947"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:00:04","slug":"happy-trails-part-158-finding-a-new-way-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36947","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 158: Finding a new way to live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now that I no longer have to worry about daily deadlines, or filling space on a blank newspaper page, or deciding which issues to comment on, I find myself pondering more personal matters.<\/p>\n

One of them involves the way I live.<\/p>\n

Oh, my wife and I have carved out a good life in retirement. We love our new home in Princeton, Texas; we laugh daily at Toby the Puppy; we enjoy spending more time with our granddaughter; we enjoy hauling our fifth wheel around the country.<\/p>\n

The way I live, though, requires some tweaking. I got a lesson on it this morning. I visited the gym where I work out most morning and received a serious wakeup call from a personal trainer who conducted a full body scan on me and told me how I can shed the weight that has piled onto this old man’s body.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’ve heard it all before. I have known for decades<\/em> what I need to do. I need to exercise more, eat less and concentrate on maintaining that regimen for the rest of my life on Earth.<\/p>\n

There. He told me — yet again! — what I know already.<\/p>\n

This time it was a bit different. I saw the outline of my body as drawn by the scan. I saw the “tale of the tape,” so to speak. My gut is too big. My body fat ratio is out of whack. I saw the minimum calorie count I need to consume daily and, oh yes, I saw the maximum count I should not exceed.<\/p>\n

So, with that I have decided to try a new way of living.<\/p>\n

I have been blessed with relatively good health over many years. I don’t take a bucket load of pills each day. As I told the trainer this morning, however, I have discovered that it is “much easier to fall into bad habits than it is to acquire good ones.”<\/p>\n

It’s not an old-age thing. It’s been part of my existence since, well, the beginning.<\/p>\n

I’m going to turn the page beginning today. Time is no one’s friend, especially those of us who have much less of it ahead<\/em> of us than behind<\/em> us.<\/p>\n

It’s time, therefore, to make the most of what’s left.<\/p>\n\n

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