Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Journey Begins

Hello everyone!
Name is Nicholas Cole, I am the creator of cookwithnick.com and also have another cooking blog at cookwithnick.blogspot.com.  Over the last few years, I seem to be accumulating a number of diseases from my poor diet choices throughout my life. I love to cook and now its time for me to turn my life around. I have been working on changing my life for some time, figured I would start posting my progress. Hoping it will help me continue or someone else looking for support.
I have been diagnosed with gout, arthritis in my foot, and 3 months ago diabetes. I was on disability and could not walk for about 8 months. Over that time I did nothing but play games and become extremely out of shape. I got up to 467 pounds and every step I took was painful, this caused me more problems one being depression.
It’s now been a year I am back to working, I have lost over a hundred pounds, now at 364 and I am able to do my job with little pain. I been trying to go to the gym on a regular basis, slowly getting my life back together. My depression is going away quickly as I am able to get out of the house and enjoy the days. But with all the changes I still have not changed my eating style, other than cutting out fast food 5 months ago. Now its time I figure out how to eat healthy. My goal is to try my best to stay away from all processed foods (you know the whole middle of your grocery store) and learn to cook healthier.
As I go I will share my progress, and recipes that are helping me along my journey to become healthy. If anyone has suggestions or ideas to help, please fill free to leave them in the comments section I will take all the support I can get.

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