Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3613 June 9-23 2017 | Page 15

FRESHWATER VOL.36 • ISS. 13 11 June 9 - 23, 2017 Get Healthy! presents S ^ Here is author Cal Kellogg fishing at French Meadows Reservoir in October 2011 when he hit the scales at a very unhealthy 393 lbs. He readily admits that poor decisions in terms of diet and exercise brought him to this point. and situations. ^ This is how Kellogg looked in October 2016 when he weighed about 235 pounds. What a difference time, healthful choice and good supplements can make. Cal’s ultimate goal is to hit the 200 pound mark at some point in the fall of 2017! ^ Plexus supplements are a key part of Kellogg’s weight loss program. Originally designed to help stabilize blood sugar levels for diabetics, all natural GMO free Plexus products not only have been found to help with weight loss, but Kellogg also reports sleeping better, having less joint pain and increased energy levels since he began using Plexus products. ^ Anglers have access to some of the healthiest protein available. Eating a diet heavy in fish and green veggies is proven to help eliminate body fat, while increasing good cholesterol levels and decreasing blood pressure. Fishing And Hunting Saved My Life! to as morbidly obese. As I started ome folks are going to applaud dragging the buck upward, the sweat this article. Some are going to write it off as pure hyperbole and oth- started flowing heavily and I could feel my heart thundering in ers are simple going to stop the back of my neck. reading it before reaching In short I thought there the end, because my goal was a real if not good is for them to confront possibility that I was going themselves and for most to have a heart attack right of us that’s a pretty painful there on the canyon face proposition. before I reached the top. I Yet despite the nega- knew if that happened I had tives I think this article is no one or nothing to blame worthwhile, because even beyond myself and my if it only impacts one Fish weakness of character. Sniffer reader in a positive Luckily for me, I made it way, one life will have by Cal Kellogg back to the truck with much been changed for the better. suffering, but without dying. I turned Let’s rewind back to October 2011. the ignition just in time to hear the St. I had been perched on a lava rim Louis Cardinals win the World Series. deer hunt. When a decent meat buck emerged for the brush 200 yards down As I listened I vowed to myself that I was going to systematically dump my the slope, my shot had been true. body fat and get into the best shape of The bullet fully penetrated the buck’s my life. chest, he traveled downslope another As I write these words, its May of 50 yards or so in a burst of speed and 2017 and my body weight is about it was over. 225 pounds and still declining. My Standing over the buck and look- ultimate goal is to hit an even 200 ing back up the canyon wall as the pounds, which I expect to happen in sun inched down toward the horizon late summer or early fall. In addition a flood of reality hit me. I was going to losing fat, I’ve gained a bunch of to have to drag the buck up several muscle. I can run 5 to 10 miles if I hundred vertical feet through rough need to (I’m a big hiker and only run brush and rock strewn terrain. Once sparingly to preserve my old man I got the deer off the canyon face, I’d joints) and I feel better both physically still have another mile or so to cover and mentally. before reaching my truck. Over the years, many readers have I was 44 years old at the time and at come to me after noticing my weight 393 pounds I was what doctors refer FISH SNIFFER HOW – TO CONTINUED ON PAGE 12