LIVIN' LARGE: Minimizing yourself and maximizing your life!When you have over 100 pounds to lose it can seem impossible to get started in the right direction.
Sometimes I wonder how many people read this forum (and I am not just talking about Livin' Large here - I am talking about all of the JPFitness forums) but don't train (work out) and don't follow anything that might resemble a reasonably healthy diet. I am not necessarily even talking about those people who don't like to lift weights or those that don't "need" to follow any particular diet.
I am talking about the person who NEEDS to be exercising who NEEDS to be following a diet plan...but AREN'T.
I am talking to YOU now. I know you are here. I see you everyday. You are our Guest here at JPFitness and we want you to be involved. Perhaps you don't feel that you can lift weights. Either you don't know how or you are embarrassed. Maybe you don't have access to them or something. I don't care what the reason is... speak up.
So you don't follow a diet? Every diet you have ever tried has failed? You know you need to lose weight but nothing seems to be working. That crash diet you're going to try next...guess what, it won't work either.
Why won't it work? Because it is likely designed to give you just enough rope to hang yourself with...just enough information to get some results, but not enough to last... There are some exceptions to this though. There are good books out there? Do you know which ones they are? WE DO!
Browsing a fitness forum will not make you fit and it will not make you healthy. Can you imagine how many lbs I could have lost with the click of my mouse? Unbelievable. The reality is this: The knowledged contained on these forums can translate into results if and only if you APPLY IT.
So my challenge today. GET UP. GET MOVING. Walk for a few minutes. If you are one of those people who insists that I provide you with a number...the magic number is 10. 10 minutes folks. When you are done. Come back, post an introduction message and let's get to work.
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Good points James. I had a subscription to MH for over a year before I figured out I was not going to lose any weight by religiously reading each months edition. Getting started is always the hard part. Breaking the bad habits and learning new healthy ones seem like such a big step. When actually all you need to do is get out there and start changing something, anything for the better. And with a little investment of time, some consistency and dedication those positve changes start paying some dividends. When folks start seeing results and start feeling better hopefully that is enough to keep them on track. I know it has been for me.
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I would sometimes NOT buy Men's Health because I was embarrassed. I was fat and figured people would think "Just freakin' stop eating like a pig. What do you need that magazine for?" Buying it was like buying Playboy.
I'm better now. I'd have better faster, if i'd bought the magazine when I wanted to.
Good points James. I had a subscription to MH for over a year before I figured out I was not going to lose any weight by religiously reading each months edition. Getting started is always the hard part. Breaking the bad habits and learning new healthy ones seem like such a big step. When actually all you need to do is get out there and start changing something, anything for the better. And with a little investment of time, some consistency and dedication those positve changes start paying some dividends. When folks start seeing results and start feeling better hopefully that is enough to keep them on track. I know it has been for me.
Agreed. That's actually how I got started as well: reading Men's Health, and like you and LD, while it was entertaining and thought-provoking at first (simply because I hadn't thought about organized, goal-oriented training before), it ultimately became just another (albeit still important) stepping stone.
On the one hand, anyone reading this forum who NEEDS to be reading this forum is at least better than good ol' Bob. On the other hand, just as in my own development, fitness is a never-ending progression. Hitting a plateau every now and then is normal, but becoming complacent with where you are rather than continue to strive for improvement risks that proverbial rut, differing from a grave only in depth.
Rock on, James.
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I would sometimes NOT buy Men's Health because I was embarrassed. I was fat and figured people would think "Just freakin' stop eating like a pig. What do you need that magazine for?" Buying it was like buying Playboy.
I'm better now. I'd have better faster, if i'd bought the magazine when I wanted to.
Not that weird. I personally totally understand this view point.
I feel that way anytime I buy junkfood too. Junkfood is porn.
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Not that weird. I personally totally understand this view point.
I feel that way anytime I buy junkfood too. Junkfood is porn.
Good point. I know how I react (internally) when I see a buggy filled with junk food. It's borderline--no, it's actual incredulity. I want to walk up to the person and really get in his or (usually) her face about what kind of damage she's doing to herself, her family, the environment, and our economy (for more on this, see the great article Kaiser posted over in the CE forum). It's worse than buying condoms; at least condoms are meant to protect and prevent, but junk food just pilages and sabotages and makes you less of a person over time. Of course, I'm not sure how porn makes you less of a person over time unless you want to talk about desensitization and objectification of women, but I'll stop rambling now.
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On the rare occasions when I buy junk food, I feel guilty. Like I'm sending a message to obese people that the crap obviously isn't the problem. After all, I'm eating it and I'm not fat, right? I kinda hide it, like it's embarrassing.
Reminds me of my fat days, when I'd buy two sodas so it looked like I wasn't eating all that fast food by myself.
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