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Chubby For Life
posted Monday, 20 June 2005
When I was in my late twenties I started to gain weight. I had been taking karate and was very active. My job was strenuous and yet I was gaining weight steadily. I went to the doctor and he told me to eat less. I watched what I ate and yet the weight kept creeping up. My family has a tendancy to put on weight in their thirties and it is affectionately called The Bott Bloat. My father was a giant of a man weighing 300 lbs and strong as an ox.
I assumed the weight gain was just part of my genetic makeup but when I began to get extremely tired we found it to be a thyroid tumor. The story of discovery, surgery and treatment of the tumor is the subject of a much longer blog entry but suffice to say it all worked out. I take a synthetic thyroid hormone daily now and I'm fine. Unfortunately the weight never came off. I've worked hard a few times and brought the weight down to around 235 but it doesn't last. If I eat the way I want to I seem to stay between 255 and 265.
While on a banjo site one of the guys was talking about a program called Body For Life. He had pictures of himself before and after that were hard to believe. The claim is that you can make dramatic changes in twelve weeks. By nature I am a skeptic but went to the website and looked it over. The concept is through diet and excercise you can change yourself in just twelve weeks. Here is a photo of one of the guys (who is 50!).
I assumed the weight gain was just part of my genetic makeup but when I began to get extremely tired we found it to be a thyroid tumor. The story of discovery, surgery and treatment of the tumor is the subject of a much longer blog entry but suffice to say it all worked out. I take a synthetic thyroid hormone daily now and I'm fine. Unfortunately the weight never came off. I've worked hard a few times and brought the weight down to around 235 but it doesn't last. If I eat the way I want to I seem to stay between 255 and 265.
While on a banjo site one of the guys was talking about a program called Body For Life. He had pictures of himself before and after that were hard to believe. The claim is that you can make dramatic changes in twelve weeks. By nature I am a skeptic but went to the website and looked it over. The concept is through diet and excercise you can change yourself in just twelve weeks. Here is a photo of one of the guys (who is 50!).
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I find it hard to believe that tremendous change can occur in such a short time, twelve weeks. OK, so I bought the book, read through it twice and thought, what have I got to lose? I found a fantastic gym right down the street from ETDS (Earth-Toned Delivery Service) where I work and decided to give it an honest go. I figure that I'd do it scientifically and give it 100%. It would be an interesting experiment.
The gym was fantastic and I went for a week but after the first week a series of events took over to temporarily doom me. Hours increased at work at the same time that heat and humidy kicked in. Then starting June 1st the hours changed at the gym closing at 9 pm. This doomed me. It's time to regroup.
I've taken this vacation to get myself back together. Now that I'm organized and know a lot more about it I'm going to start all over. I'm going to go in on Monday as if it is Day One and get to work. I took a before picture that will not be posted on either blog unless I actually do it and get in shape. I'm keeping a separate blog for this at Chubby For Life. I won't be talking much about the Body For Life program here, it will all be at the other site. I'm wondering if the flaws in my personality that have allowed me to pork up will keep me from my goal. It will be interesting to see.
I found a picture of myself at twenty-one. I'm going to use this picture as incentive. I have no expectations of being twenty-one again but I am going to look at this picture a lot.
The gym was fantastic and I went for a week but after the first week a series of events took over to temporarily doom me. Hours increased at work at the same time that heat and humidy kicked in. Then starting June 1st the hours changed at the gym closing at 9 pm. This doomed me. It's time to regroup.
I've taken this vacation to get myself back together. Now that I'm organized and know a lot more about it I'm going to start all over. I'm going to go in on Monday as if it is Day One and get to work. I took a before picture that will not be posted on either blog unless I actually do it and get in shape. I'm keeping a separate blog for this at Chubby For Life. I won't be talking much about the Body For Life program here, it will all be at the other site. I'm wondering if the flaws in my personality that have allowed me to pork up will keep me from my goal. It will be interesting to see.
I found a picture of myself at twenty-one. I'm going to use this picture as incentive. I have no expectations of being twenty-one again but I am going to look at this picture a lot.
At 21.
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