I am currently on page 78 of Frank Luna’s book. There are 376 pages in it. I am averaging about ten pages a day, which means I’ll be done in about a month unless I really pick up the pace. Of course, I don’t want to rush too much or I might miss things, which would be counterproductive.
In other news, last night I dreamt that I’d already lost all my weight and everyone was commenting on how good I looked. Then I woke up. 🙁
Think of it as encouragement, yes?
Yeah, I guess…(pout).
I don’t think you should worry about it. I mean who do you have to impress with a lower weight? Just yourself. What is the real reason you’re dieting or whatever? Probably because of health. If you’re doing it for health, then don’t worry about what you look like. As far as I know you already have a wife. So no need to impress a woman. You already have a job, so no need to impress a potential employer. So just take it easy, and bring your weight down to a healthy level. No need to impress us, we’re already impressed 🙂
I agree with Keith. I don’t like the idea of diets just to lose weight. I prefer to make actual lifestyle changes so that the weight comes off. I changed what I ate for breakfast and lunch so that I have more fruits and vegetables and more fiber than fat. I started walking home from work, which is a 30 minute walk, 30 minutes more than I normally walked.
It’s natural to want to do something to make the weight disappear quicker, which is why those diets and shakes and pills are so popular. With no effort, you, too, could look like this super model spokesperson! Except once you stop the diet and go back to the way you used to eat, the weight comes back, which will make you upset because “the diet didn’t work” or something.
Basically, everything comes down to what you do. It can sound insulting to think that your weight is “your fault”, but it is actually empowering when you change it to “your responsibility” because then you know (1) you can change, and your weight will change, too, and (2) you are enough to make that change.
Now, go listen to “Eye of the Tiger” and get pumped. B-)
Not to be a downer or anything, but WRT impressing women Keith’s wrong.
1. There’s a self-esteem thing going on there. For most guys anyway.
2. If you can’t impress your wife (in whatever way she feels is most important) then you’re in trouble. As a corollary, when considering sex, visual appeal is most often considered important to some degree, so whatever your wife considers visually appealing better match your description, or no play for you.
As for the rest of us, yeah, we’re already impressed so no worries. And now that I’ve probably made you feel bad all over again, try not to stress over your weight or appearance. Stress causes weight gain. Or is closely related to it anyway, I’m not entirely sure they’ve proven a cause/effect relationship. Just keep thinking about making that dream reality and you’ll get there, yeah?
Actually men are the visual ones, women are less so. Don’t you ever see hot women running around with slobs sometimes? (Viridian i’m not saying you’re a slob at all, from that picture I don’t get the impression you’re that although that picture does look a little scary from said lack of smiling 🙂 I’m going out on a limb here to say that there’s something else about Viridian his wife was attracted to more, maybe he was more sensative than most, or maybe he was more dominating, or maybe he just had a good head on his shoulders.
You shouldn’t have to impress your wife with your looks. Although again for health’s sake, if she see’s you’re trying to take care of yourself maybe that would attract her more?
I do agree about the self-esteem thing here though. Most guys want to feel better about themselves, makes em more confident, and women also like confidence.
I’ve also seen hot women with fat guys that aren’t slobs as well. I also agree somewhat on the sex thing, I think if you don’t have any visual appeal then probably you’re not going to have as much.
Of course you can take what I say with a grain of salt as i’ve never had a g/f (and i’m not weird, well I am weird, but not that kind of weird) 😉
Actually, when my wife was attracted to me, I was skinny. This “fattening” business came about from working fast food for many years. My wife and I were both working together and we both gained a lot of weight in our mid-twenties. And we’ve been struggling to get it off ever since.