Results Not Typical

Ever notice on success stories under the before and after picture you will see the words results not typical.  I always thought it was kind of funny that these great weight loss companies had to admit that they can help for a fee, but most of us would never reach our goal.  So I’ve decided to be a results not typical and I want to help as many people as possible be a results not typical.  I think it is possible for everyone to be a results not typical.  The issue isn’t in the mind with the will power to make yourself thin, but it is skill power that gets things done.  Planning has to be done for exercise and eating right. And we must realize this lifestyle change encompasses all of your life and not just eating.  

I don’t know when I’ll get there but when I do, I’m going to be wearing a t-shirt that says results not typical.   

The last 2 weeks have just been horrible.  Extremely busy and having to put others before me.  No time to plan menus no time to go to the gym.  But I’m not giving up.  I didn’t get in this with a time frame in mind.  I know it is going to take as long as it takes.  I wish I could just throw everything else aside, but others depend on me too.  I have a wife in college and a 5 year old daughter.  Plus I have nephew with special needs living with me, who is deaf in one ear.  And his sister who suffers from post-traumatic syndrome is in my house as well.  Both of them are teenagers to boot.

The thing to remember is do what you can, when you can.  Always have things to pull you to a healthy lifestyle.  A good thing to do is find celebrities and others who have the realistic body that you want.  I don't want to be Brad Pitt or Hugh Jackman.  Too tall and body type is wrong.

For me I would like to look more like AJ Styles.  He is a wrestler for Impact on Spike TV.  We are about the same height and he is built but not overly built.  I would also would like to do what he does in the ring, but I don't want to wear tights.

Week 1 Results

Okay here it is the first week results.  Taking into my account the training I did beforehand I lost about 5 pounds.  Officially for the first week I lost 2.4 pounds.  Overall I’m happy.  Living healthy just isn’t about the weight loss.  Everything in your life has to take account.  What I am the most proud of this week is the fact that I’m no longer taking sleeping pills.  I’ve been on them since May.  I also seem to have a more of a natural high than I did before.  I wake up much easier than I use to in the mornings.  Everything seems to be going in plan.

It is a Symptom

Many people like to call obesity a disease.  I’m not one of them.  I feel obesity is not the problem, but a symptom of a greater issue.  All the overweight people I ever met weren’t fat because they were hungry all the time.  No they were fat because they ate as a means to deal with their emotions and fill a gap of failure in another part of their life.

I am one of them.  I was never good at sports.  Actually I was horrible at them.  I was always picked last and always last to finish the race.   As much as I tried I could never get it together.  For a boy this is social suicide.  I couldn’t relate to my peer group and soon preferred isolation to the laughs of others.  So I couldn’t do sports, but I could eat and that brings me to my current predicament.

To me a lifestyle change is getting to the true root of the problem and not treating just the symptoms.  Overweight people are a depressed people group.  For some of us, we should be in counseling and some of us should be on antidepressants.  All of us should get back to what makes us feel good in life.  For me this means writing, taking walks, listening to music and photography.  We must find the good things and let them replace the food in our lives.