{"id":49,"date":"2025-03-29T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familie-kleinman.nl\/brain\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-03-29T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:28:14","slug":"reacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familie-kleinman.nl\/brain\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/reacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Reacher?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you might have already seen the category in the sidebar and thought: What the H*<\/em>LL is a “Reacher” category doing on this personal blog?!<\/p>\n

Well\u2026 about six weeks ago, I made a decision \u2014 one that might just change my life. But before we get to Reacher<\/em>, let me give you some background first.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the obvious part: I’m overweight. To be completely honest, I started this journey with a BMI of 32 \u2014 which, according to standard BMI classifications, puts me in the “obese” category.<\/p>\n

I’m 1.92m tall, thats 6 foot 4 inches. ( 6’4″ ). Jack Reacher is 6’5″, so I’m pretty close to his height. That is the first reference :-).<\/p>\n

And as I mentioned earlier, I started my journey a few weeks ago at 118.2 kg<\/strong> with 32% body fat<\/strong>. That\u2019s nowhere near the physical resemblance of Jack Reacher \u2014 who\u2019s muscular, lean, and built like a freight train.<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ve started 397,288,973,247,982,394,78<\/strong> (give or take) different weight loss challenges over the years \u2014 and lost just as many of them. Oops.<\/em> \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n

Then, a few weeks ago, the pieces started to click into place. It began with a colleague at work \u2014 someone I hadn\u2019t seen in person for a few months \u2014 who had lost a considerable<\/strong> amount of weight. Shortly after that, I ran into a fellow member of my community garden. (Yeah, I\u2019m into gardening too \u2014 next to all the tech stuff… weird, huh?) And he<\/em> had also dropped a serious amount of weight. Both told me how they did it, and basically it was only a very minor change in their eating habits, and it involved less carbs, more protein.<\/p>\n

I remembered a conversation I had with my cardiologist (no, nothing serious is wrong with me \u2014 it\u2019s just a precaution!<\/em>). She told me I needed to lose weight to stay healthy \u2014 and to do it before it\u2019s too late<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That got me thinking.<\/p>\n

Then I came across an article about weight loss and the impact of sleep. And basically\u2026 my sleep routine was the exact opposite of what it should be. Instead of a steady rhythm, my sleep was all over the place \u2014 with one thing in common:
I was dealing with a chronic lack of high-quality rest.<\/p>\n

Then the final piece clicked into place. By chance, my wife had just started watching a new series called Reacher<\/em>. She put on the first episode right before I was about to go to bed \u2014 and, as usual\u2026 way too late. I watched it with her, and that\u2019s<\/em> when everything clicked.<\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026 it sounds corny, but I want to look like that<\/em> guy.<\/p>\n

So what did I change?<\/strong>
And to be honest\u2026 not that much!<\/p>\n