How I Eat and Train for Operation 50

So for any of you who are in your 30s, your 40s, your 50s, or your 60s, that's a large group, but we're stuck here in the messy middle of life.

The messy middle is the time of lives where we're building our lives.

We're building our careers.

We're building our families.

Our responsibilities have taken over our personal goals, our personal habits.

When we're in our teens and our 20s, we're very selfish.

And that's not a bad thing.

It's all about me.

It's about, you know, what can I learn? What can I do? Where can I go? What can I experience in that time of life? And then we meet a gal or a guy.

We fall in love.

We picture a different life.

having a home having babies building a family and in order to do that well we have to pay the bills we need a career we need stability we need health care we need retirement like we need all of these things and in that messy middle of life we lose our sense of self and our grasp on our own health So through the 30s and 40s, what happens? You start working more, you exercise less, you eat more based upon convenience and comfort.

You stop doing the things that you should be doing to enhance your health, your fitness, your athleticism, your body composition, because you're so focused on being a great spouse and being a great parent, being a great provider and homemaker.

And then when we look down somewhere in our late 30s to our early 50s and we're like, oh my God, what the heck happened to me? I used to have so much energy.

I used to be so much more fit.

I used to be smaller, fit into a different body size.

And I used to be able to go here and do the things and participate in sports and all the other stuff.

And now it's like getting out of bed is a fight.

right? It's like, oh, you got to wake up and dust yourself off and like creep your way out of bed.

You get to the bathroom and you're like, oh my God, you see this face staring back at you and you don't recognize yourself anymore.

And then you see your body and you're like, ah, what happened to me? What the hell's going on here? Your energy is just all over the place.

Your mood is not stable to say the least.

You know, you, you just, trying to get through the day and keep a happy face but you feel your life slipping away you feel your essence slipping away in many ways you're no longer the person you once were and that's scary isn't it you start to feel anxious about the future If I can't get through today feeling good, like how the heck am I going to get through next week, next month, next year, next decade? And I'll tell you, for those of you who are in the later 30s and early 40s, go speak to your friends who are in their later 50s and early 60s.

And they're going to tell you, oh, just wait.

You think it's bad now? Just wait.