Low Carb Mag July 2015 | Page 38

was incredibly thin, I have a really high body fat index so I really need to put some muscles on for optimal health so I started lifting weights last fall. I really love it. I have a couple of surgeries last year so I have gotten out of the gym for a couple of months a t a time and when I get back in their it was just like, aaaahhh, home! I’m not lifting what other people might be lifting and so I loved that because I go in there and I don’t feel like it’s competitive. I’m just in the gym by myself. If I want to go in and do two exercises and leave or work out 15 minutes, that’s what I do. If want to go there for an hour, that’s what I do. I definitely feel a lot better doing that. But what I really love is hiking. I love being out in nature. I love going for a walk around my neighborhood. I love just connecting. What I really like to do is to get into more play. I have this friend, Darryl Edwards, who runs play out for a lot for the primal play workshops at like the PaleoFx conference - and I have a lot of friends who are doing all these kind of play stuffs so it doesn’t come very naturally for me but any chance I get with my kids to be out somewhere, I watch them play and I try to mimic them. I think that’s really our healthiest ways to get the fitness aspect but also get the mindfulness piece of I as play. AB: I’m right with you with the heavy lifting. I am lifting the fork and then the spoon… KK: hahaha B