Well done. I wish I could lose 15 pounds. It seems like the older I get, the more hungry I feel.
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I actually lost around 10 pounds in the last few years
Interestingly, I found it when I looked in the bathroom mirror
And even more interesting was that I solved the problem myself with simple science.
Simply a matter of the earths gravitational pull.
I’ve been so busy in the last few years, I wasn’t paying attention so I found out the hard way.
It seems that gravity pulled around 10 pounds of muscle from my arms and shoulders
That 10 pounds drop down to my waist. Now the pull of gravity still affects me as it does everyone.
Interestingly, the constriction caused by the belt that I wear has kept the weight from falling down below my belly button.
My plan is to do inverted situps from my gravity table, combined with the power of positive thinking and force some of that weight back up into my shoulders and arms.
In the meantime, before I start my attack, I’m gonna need to do some serious pre-attack planning.
So I think I’m gonna get the ball rolling by taking my wife out for pizza and a couple of classic cokes with cane sugar. That’ll give me enough energy to brainstorm and come up with the ultimate plan.
I have found over the decades that the best preparation before you start lifting weights again, is to motivate yourself by going to an Italian restaurant and lifting table weights.
If my plan doesn’t pan out… I will distract myself from negative thinking by making the trip out to Häagen-Dazs and jumping in to a bucket of ice cream.
I tried jumping into a giant tub of ice water. That didn’t do anything for me.
Regardless… Congratulations to anybody that can lose any amount of weight on our way to possibly being a healthier you. Because let me tell you something. All joking aside. When I was a younger guy, the most I weighed was about 173. I look just like an anatomy chart you could say. One hand push-ups. One arm chin ups, walking on my hands. Push-ups till I lost count. I would go to the local high school and put on a 20 pound weight vest, lead ankle weights and lead wrist weights. I would run up and down the bleachers over and over again. I got to the point where I can actually run up to bleachers steps backwards, two steps at a time. I used to run about 40 blocks out to the local beach. And I take off my shoes and run in the water along the shoreline up to almost my knees. I would power run through the water up and down the beach until I felt like I was gonna short out. Then I would rinse off in the beach shower room. Dry off my feet put my shoes back on and run all the way back home.
Now decades later, my average weight is around 150 pounds. During the holiday season I may get up to 160. Just at 5 to 10 pound difference makes me feel sluggish. I feel tired. When I sit on the deacons bench in the morning, I actually feel kind of a strain bending down to tie my shoes. And it seems crazy because 160 is peanuts when you think of it.
I’m sharing that with you guys because to me just 10 pounds over what I would consider a comfortable wait for me seems to be way more of a challenge than it should be. So I can’t even imagine being 50 pounds or 100 pounds or 150 pounds or more overweight. Seriously I can’t even imagine it.
So you guys and girls that one way or another found yourself overweight or extremely overweight and have taken the challenge to do something about it that just impresses the heck out of me. Because I can imagine that takes some metal powers that are just not easy to understand.
Motivation, determination, perseverance, and every other word you can use that gets integrated into the human mindset to meet the challenge to make yourself a healthier person. There’s so much stuff in the world that’s killing us no matter if we’re at our ideal bodyweight. It’s kind of odd when you think of it. You do all the stuff you can so that you feel healthier and can get around easier sleep better be more comfortable at work and maybe less self-conscious If you’re in a room full of people that look like they just ran a marathon. But at the same time, everything were surrounded by wants to kill us.
But you know the old saying the only way to be positive is not to focus on the negative. Like me, for example I’m an old guy and I’ll never be younger than I am today. So no matter where we’re at in life we’re all taking a challenge. We all have to be up to the challenge. So you younger guys do what you can to get older. And older guys like me we have to take some senior citizen challenges so that we can stretch it out a little bit.
But there is an old saying that to a certain extent man as a master of his own destiny. 90% of the things you worry about aren’t worth the effort. And 10% of the things that you worry about are gonna happen anyway so why bother?
So each one of us is our own individual sphere of influence. My parents used to tell me take care of yourself… Because if you don’t take care of yourself, you won’t be in any shape to take care of anybody else. As you grow older you will find that people will depend on you. The number one person that should depend on you is you.
No matter whether you’re young or in the middle somewhere or older like me, there is one thing that is a constant. You take the challenges as they confront you. You do whatever you can do to meet those challenges. Once in a while, you will take a challenge where you will get a A for effort and possibly an F for results. But if you don’t make the effort, then you know before you get your report card, what your mark is gonna be.
I remember when I was a kid people wear these T-shirts that would say never say die.
As has been said for decades, there’s two things you can’t escape… Death and taxes..
Other than those, let’s all sit down with a deck of cards and see what kind of hands we get dealt?
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Well, I survived two of my kids’ birthdays this month without going overboard, and still managed to lose weight. I still got to enjoy nice dinners and cake, too!
Just didn’t eat cubic-pantloads of either.
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i got dealt a really horrible hand of cards mentally, getting a dog helps one be a better person, but you have to lean on things that will make you be better, and not worse. Walking helps, pills help, dogs help
But none of that matters minute by minute if I can’t manage myself. I feel so many aren’t taught CBD or DBT, but they should, and I’m a strong believer it should be taught in schools.
Staying positive helps create positive experiences, whereas the counter would cause more spirals. We want to be in the green with gains, and try to rework the bads to be not so bad. Radical acceptance, distress tolerance, TIP skills.
I say this to everyone “Take care of yourself so you can live a longer life for those you love down the road” because so much recklessness will be quite upsetting when you get older. I had to walk, we had to get a dog, I had to overcome a lot and still am. I just got dealt a horrible hand that I need to have severe upkeep if I want any chance at a long life, sucks but what can one do?
We no longer laze about. No longer live sedentary. Losing weight still and trying to enjoy what I can. Cut back on a lot of eating however I need to eat healthier.
If people want a good mental note, you need 3 things to have a better state of mind. Adequate diet, adequate sleep, and adequate exercise. If a single pillar is not met, you start struggling. Keep that in mind and try to keep up the fight against whatevers giving you trouble.
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