you have to go up and down? WTF?

The first thing I think of when I wake up in the morning is that I need to exercise. But then the second thing that I think, is how or why I can’t go to the gym or go for a hike today. A lot of us have some pretty bad fitness habits. But I am here now to propose a 5 simsple suggestions as to how I(and hopefully you) can get past those bad habits.

1. As a famous Shoe company would advise you, JUST DO IT. Don’t think about about why you can’t or why you shouldn’t. In fact, just don’t think at all. Just do it. Make you exercise routine, make it ingrained in to the person that is you.

2. Reverse your thinking. Just Do It(see no. 1) so often that it becomes the norm. Make exercising the thing that you make excuses to do. Make it an addiction.

3. Have a positive mental attitude. Any activity that anyone engages in can be either awesome or completely shitty. How you enjoy any activity is largely dependent on the attitude you have going in to the activity. If you are pissed off and don’t want to go to gym, guess what, you are going to hate it. If you change your attitude and get excited, you are going to LOVE IT.

4. Switch it up. As Important as it is to make exercise your routine, it doesn’t have to be a stagnant routine. Do something different. Set a goal to do a different exercise every day. Run a different route, Go for a bike ride, Take a hike, chase a car, play with your dog.

5. Find a partner, but don’t depend on a partner. Find someone else who wants to exercise with you. Exercising is always easiest when you have someone to do it with. Just don’t fall in to the trap of getting discouraged when you partner can’t or doesn’t want to go. Use that as a motivator to get your ass out of the house and exercise. Show your exercise partner what they are missing by having a blast and enjoying yourself.

There you have it, 5 simple suggestions that I have found to make exercise palatable. Are there other suggestions that might help us along our journey? Absolutely, these are just the ones that I have found to help me. If you think of more suggestions, write ‘em down. Type them up in a big font and tape them on your bedroom door. Put them somewhere where you will remember them. Make them an every day part of your life. If you can do that, you can succeed. We can all succeed in losing weight and getting healthy.

This is my first real post in several months, so some of you may be wondering what the whole purpose of this site. Well let me fill you in. This is my semi autobiographical/semi inspirational/semi informative weight loss blog. I intend to fill you head with my bizarre and usually controversial topics about losing weight, being overweight, getting healthy, and changing lifestyles. What inspired this change do you ask? Last fall I had a sudden realization that if I didn’t change the way that I acted myself, I was going to be unable to function in normal society. I was so fat that I couldn’t properly wipe my own ass.

what I saw myself becoming

It is an embarrassing thing to admit, but the mere fact that I was so fat I couldn’t reach all the places of my own body finally turned me on to the fact that my life had been spinning out of control. I made a resolution to change my life, and I have been (slowly) working towards that since then.

Everybody got that? good.

That is it for now. I will see you kids on thrusday. Peace out for now.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Email me: dan (at) finished being fat (dot) com

Being fat is more than just a personal disadvantage. Fat people are overlooked on first glance. As “sensitive” as our society is, all of the stuff about how the only thing that matters is the person on the inside is complete B.S. As important as being a good and honest person is, the reality is that most people wont take the time to get to know that good and honest person inside an overweight shell.  There are some people who can see past physical traits on their first meetings with people. But those people seem to be so rare that most people who are treated differently for being fat just stop trying to interact with anyone.

There are some that say “if being fat is so horrible, why don’t you just lose weight?” That is an excellent point, but it is much much easier said than done. Losing a giant chunk of weight doesn’t just involve ”cutting down on the sweets” or eating a few more “salads with fat free dressing.” (I use those two specific examples because they are usually the suggestions that people who have never been fat or lost large amount of weight suggest to me.) Weight loss and maintaining that loss involves changing the way that a person eats and acts each and every day for the rest of their lives. Most fat people aren’t fat because they have been doing everything right and just can’t control that sweet tooth. Most fat people are fat because they are lazy about their food and exercise, or they just don’t know what they should eat, and they don’t know that they need to exercise. Sadly, I was in the first group. I have known for years what I should eat, and that I need to exercise. But I had been so unhappy for so long, I had practically given up. It is hard to do good things for yourself when you have no self worth, and it is hard to build self worth when most people wont look at you twice.

There is such a thing as food addiction, but unlike smoking or other addictions once you kick the habit you are far from done. I was addicted to food. I was always ready to eat even if i wasn’t hungry. In two months I have kicked that habit. At this point, I probably would forget to eat if I didn’t have it scheduled out for myself. Just like any other addiction though, food addiction will be an easy thing to fall back in to if I am not careful. So now is where the real work begins. Not only do I have to lose 150 more pounds, but I have to also endure the physical and emotional roller coaster that is losing weight for at least another year. It is during that roller coaster that I am most likely to fall off the food addiction wagon and start my old ways again. Getting rid of the side effects of my food addiction is the very thing that will stress me out enough to get me to fall off the wagon. It is a vicious cycle.

As difficult as the next year and a half is going to be while I lose this weight, I know that I will not give up. I know this because last winter is when I hit my point of no return. I got to the point where it was more difficult for  being fat than  it was to do something about it. As difficult as losing the weight is, I know that it is nowhere near as horrible as being 400 pounds was. It wasn’t just difficult physically, but emotionally too. I am finished being fat because I am finished hating myself, and I am finished limiting myself.

This has been a relatively heavy post for me, but it is something that I had to do. If you got this far in the post, thanks for reading it and I’ll catch you later on finished being fat.

later,

Dan

When you buy a car with a six-cylinder engine, you expect to get six cylinders. When you buy a dress in a size 10, you expect a size 10. And when you buy a burger at a fast-food joint that’s listed on the menu as containing 500 calories, you jolly well expect 500. But you may be getting a lot more than that. The same may be true of the omelet and the pasta you get at a sit-down restaurant — and of the frozen dinner with the label you read so carefully before you tossed it in your supermarket basket and took it home.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951798,00.html#ixzz0bwpwRgCF

more later,

Dan