June 19th, 2012: Got me a bone thrown. Somehow I lost 3 pounds. I’m at my lowest I’ve been in recent memory – 256 lbs. I guess how I lost it was simply trusting the process, because I didn’t go overboard sweating it out in the gym yesterday, nor did I do any roadwork. Either way, I’ll take it.
I still have 67 pounds to go. The realization that the back half of this is going to be the slower part of a process that seems like it has already lasted eons of time is sobering. Fortunately I’ve thought ahead as I’ve built the program road. I know I have the propensity to flame-out on projects to which I give everything of myself.
The program is very clear about following the process. If you don’t follow the process, you won’t get the results. Fortunately, even though the process can be dickhead of taskmaster, all it asks is that you do, in fact, follow a process – preferably a legitimate one; and follow all of its rules without cutting corners.
The program within the program – the diet and exercise plan I’ve cooked up, so to speak, is only one way to do this, and it’s coming soon to a theater near you…
June 19th, 2020: You hear about “lifestyle change”, and how it’s the only way to maintain a major loss of weight. As much as the words “lifestyle change” irritate me, I have to agree with the application to the program.
It is not, as I’ve made mention of before, a situation where we must all wear high-dollar winter coats and drive Subaru’s in our hometown of Jackson Hole, WY, or Aspen, CO. We need not eat hummus and collect our poop in a baggie. We don’t need to extol the virtues of hemp and marijuana and recycling everything, nor do we need to live in a home with flawless fung shui. We can own and shoot guns, or not; and have long hair or short hair; we can cuss or always speak clean.
A “lifestyle change” to me has meant that I’ve aligned myself with what works for me. It’s what makes me satisfied at the end of day. This may not mean I go to bed with visions of sugarplums dancing in my head every night, but I know I did something that day to try to better my situation. Almost always, that lifestyle shit is easier to maintain when I get some hard work done in the gym.
