So I've been on a bit of a weight loss quest now for about 5 years. When I started it took me 8 months to lose almost 100 pounds. Then I gained about 30 of it back and then I see-sawed a bit for a few years. Then something bad happened...DUN DUN DUN. I started working at a pizza place. Which was alright except, like almost everyone, I love pizza. So right before I moved here to NY last July I was up to 240 again. Well I lost a bunch of it to get back down around 220 or so. But there's been a lot of weight lifting involved so I don't really pay attention to my weight. I'm still a bit from my lowest at 205 but I'm in WAY better shape now than I was at 205.
Anyway I need to get to the point here. My point is this. Those of you that know me know I'm stubborn. I do things my way, which isn't always correct, but I still stick to my guns and try my best not to quit anything I start. It's sort of a personal resolution I made to myself a long time ago which has a lot to do with my father. Which is a whole other blog post entirely. Anyway my point here is this. ANYONE can accomplish ANYTHING they put their mind to. But that's the problem. You have to put your mind to it and stick with it. You have to fight and scratch and claw your way to get something accomplished.
But the problem with that is, it's not the way we do things in America. How many billions of dollars are spent on diet pills and workout fads and very pieces of equipment we use for a month then throw in the basement. Everyone has done it. Well unless you're a lucky person with a speedy metabolism. I set a goal years back just to get healthier. No real plan. No quantity of weight I wanted to lose. I just wanted to stop feeling like shit. The problem was, and sometimes still is, I was a fat, lazy piece of shit for 23 years. Add an extreme love for watching movies and a healthy appetite and VOILA, there you have it Fatty! Well after dropping the weight and keeping most of it off I made another vow to myself before I turned 30 this past December. I swore to myself I'd start working out and A LOT. We have a treadmill and a Bowflex in the basement. There was no excuse. So I plugged away at it all winter.
It also helped that I have a very physical job. I lift shit weighing at least 50 pounds all day long. It's, almost, constant. When I first started I was sore as hell. But you get into "work" shape pretty quick. So I've been lifting a bunch all winter and jogging occasionally. Not as much as a should. Jogging is boring as hell. I can't help it. Although iPods do help. I'm getting slightly off topic again. So after using the Bowflex regularly for a few months I was starting to plateau a bit and to be honest I was getting bored as hell with it. (There goes that American ADD again). So while talking to a buddy up in Maine and another and another, they all told me I should check out P90X. I did some research and decided it wasn't complete shit, I could get it relatively cheap online (eBay baby!) and I could do it all home. That was good. Not a big fan of gyms. So I got it. Got a couple inexpensive pieces of equipment to go with it and off I went. Started watching the Intro DVD, checked out the guides and watched one of the regular DVDs. "This should be good.", I thought to myself. Well going back to that whole "stubborn, do things my way" thing I mentioned earlier, I decided to try out one of the DVDs. And me being me I went with the one that's considered the hardest. All I can say is I hurt....3 days later. But a good hurt. (So far I'd recommend this program to anyone)
But I'm going to stick with it, kick it's ass and prove to myself that being 30 is just some bullshit number that doesn't mean anything to me. For years I've had A LOT of people ask me "How did you do it?" Let's be honest. It's not f*&$ing rocket surgery. It really isn't that hard people. It's just a state of mind. We're so used to not wanting to work for anything anymore that it's evolved to a very pathetic point. Just watch TV. Commercialism is what it is for a reason. It's up to us to stop pissing away money on "FatAssAway" and stop gorging on Double Quarter Pounders and smarten the hell up. But then again that's only my opinion. I mean America is what it is for that reason. So we have the luxury of eating what we want, watching what we want and not doing what we don't want. I'm just a traditionalist I guess.
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