My view of the world

I just read an article in the NY Times about an 8 year study that shows a low-fat diet won’t help you avoid cancer or heart disease. In spite of what the experts tell you, the rules are the same for everybody, “eat right, exercise and die anyway”.
The doctors involved said that if the women in the study had started younger and worked harder at it..blah blah blah.
The bottom line is simple, there are no miracle cures out there.
A guy named Jim Fix wrote about the benefits of jogging and dropped dead at a fairly young age, while jogging.
A friend of mine had a massive heart attack and may well be the record holder for the most stints ever placed in the human body. The reason he lived is because he walked long and hard everyday. I seems that there is another artery connected to the heart that will send out daughter arteries of some kind and take up some of the load. This explanation is probably somewhat inaccurate but in essence it discribes what happens.
Exercise is good, it strengthens the heart and lungs, it opens the arteries, it strengthens the muscles and helps you lose that extra fat so it doesn’t hurt so bad when you do things like standing or walking or even breathing.
Losing weight is simple (in theory), you just need to burn more calories than you take in… Sure sounds easy, don’t it.
I’m 6′4″ and weigh 310lbs, my knees hurt, my feet hurt and since I started on my blood pressure meds my circulation is impaired, do to a lack of pressure, on the up side I rarely get those massive headaches I used to live with.
Aside from the fact that I hate to exercise, my biggest problem is I like the taste of food and I do what most people do, I feed my mouth not my stomach.
I’ve decided that instead of eating what is supposedly “good for me”, I will make what I like and package it in portions, this way it’s a nuisance to thaw more than one serving at a time and maybe it’ll slow me down a bit.
Instead of getting a membership to a gym, that I’d find a thousand excuses not to use, I’ve started walking late at night, the cops slow down, but they haven’t stopped to talk yet. The real advantage to walking is that, when I get tired I can’t just sit down and watch TV, I’ve got no choice but to finish the walk, although at a much slower pace than I started.
We’ll see if I can stick with it.