Let's drop 100, who's with me? (Page 10)

HELP!

I have been back and forth with working out, eating right and sleeping well the last couple years…and I’m sick of it! I am READY to see some real life changes again!  I am only 26 and am tired of feeling like a slave to my weight, and I want to take control!  I am a very very busy guy, but I know this is something I need and want to make time for!

I am starting P90X next week. Please pass this way any words of advice or encouragement, I know I will need them!

- Josh

Josh, I either want to high five you or slap you to get you focused.  Look at me.  Look me in the eyes right now while you read this.  I understand exactly where you are… After an entire life of being the fat kid – unable to hop a fence, climb a tree, or run the soccer field with my friends – I’m now a cliff climbing, Ironman triathlete, all around adventure guy.   I enjoy white water rafting, obstacle races, and even the beach for the first time since I was a toddler.  I’m an athlete now and give my body the food it needs to perform the very demanding tasks I ask of it, and rebuild itself after it’s done them.  My life changed when I learned to get my high from looking in the mirror and seeing someone approaching who I wanted to be, instead of getting my high from a fu**ing bag of Oreos. I get my high every time my body proves that it will do anything I ask it to, and when I catch girls checking me out.   I’m 37 years old, in the best shape of my life and I get my high from being a frikkin superhero that people admire.  Even people that I previously envied as “in shape” are amazed at my adventures – they have neither the confidence or energy to tackle what I call simply a “fun weekend.”

Josh, I’m making the most of what I’ve got left, but you’re so young and have much more time and ability than me… I will hunt you down and slap you if you waste what should be the best years of your life feeling sorry for yourself. You’ve got it in you to do everything I’ve done and things I won’t have time to accomplish before my body says I’m too old. Are you still looking at me? I understand that the weights feel heavy right now…that your muscles begin to burn after a few reps. I understand that walking up a single flight of stairs makes your legs burn and steals your composure as you become very out of breath. I was you, brother – sick of being embarrassingly out of shape, I’d get out of breath getting up from the couch to go to the kitchen. I always had to stand on someones porch and recover before knocking because it was humiliating to be breathless when they answered the door. You don’t have to live that life. Working out and eating right is hard, Josh, But not liking who you see in the mirror every day is even harder.

A famous marathoner said “I could never run 26 miles, I run just one mile 26 times.”  That little bit of wisdom that has gotten me through countless mental and physical challenges.  My advice: Forget thinking about “90 Fu**ing days?! That’s a long time…”  Just worry about your next chance to workout or your next meal.  I’m going to say that again -. Don’t worry about changing anything forever..just make the right choice, right now.  Then repeat.

The good news is that every day, making the right choice becomes easier until it is habit.  For now:  Dig, brother. Dig deep.  Because that’s what a badass does.

Lloyd