Nobody wakes up unhealthy overnight.
Usually it sneaks up on us.
A little less movement. A little more processed food. Sleep that keeps getting pushed aside. Stress that becomes normal because we’ve been carrying it so long we barely notice anymore.
Small decisions stack up.
Then one day a doctor hands you a diagnosis and suddenly it feels like something happened to you.
Sometimes it did. Disease is complicated, and not everything that happens to us can be traced back to how we lived.
But a whole lot of our health is influenced by what we do every day.
And I find that incredibly hopeful.
Because if daily choices helped get me somewhere I didn’t want to be, daily choices could also help me start moving in another direction.
At 55, I was pretty deep in the hole.
Type 2 diabetes. Nearly 100 pounds heavier than I am today. A body that hurt in enough places that surgery was being discussed for several of them.
I didn’t change all of that with one heroic decision.
I changed what I ate.
I walked.
I starte…
