Get in Shape and Stay in Shape
Rants
Number on the Scale Rant
Many people have asked me at work why I eat chicken and tuna all the time if I am not trying to lose any weight…. here’s why….
It is VERY possible to lose weighteating crappy unhealthy food, or even maintain your weight while eating crap. I can start dining at Dunkin Donuts every morning, then stop at McDonalds for lunch and pizza for dinner and still lose some weight, as long as I am burning more than I consume …… However,…it is very possible to maintain a certain scale number and actually look like total shit. ( you can be skinny and have HIGH bodyfat= skinny fat)
Scale weight tells you a few things…. If you are overweight, the scale will tell you,…. if you are underweight, the scale will tell you…Will the scale tell you if you look good ? NO . Does your body look nice because you ring up a certain number on the scale? NO.
Eating properly changes your body composition and makes you look better. How strict should you be about not eating crap? It depends on the look you want and how much sacrifice you are willing to make, everyone is different. If you want to be a certain weight and wear a certain size clothing, and you don’t mind having cellulite….,belly rolls, and hanging flab…. eat all the crap you want while maintaining your special number on the scale. Throw some liquor into the mix and sit back and watch the cellulite spread…..still while maintaining that scale number.
If you want visible muscle and a lean looking body, staying away from the crap and eating properly is what makes the difference… regardless of how great you do your workouts.
Some people become so fixated on the scale and getting a ‘magic’ number to settle on for a goal. That is such a small part of the picture.
My grandmother used to make sure she always weighed her ‘certain’ special number throughout her entire life. But what she didn’t seem to realize was that without exercising and eating properly, (although she kept maintaining that number), she had 6 inches of hanging flab swinging on the backs of her arms and she always looked 9 months pregnant. It didn’t have to be that way, it’s just a matter of exercising regularly and eating the right food. She was attempting to ‘watch her weight’, but she had it all wrong.
My body composition has been all over the map over the past 20 years, from skinny, to skinny fat, to lean, and then lean and muscular… all within a small margin of weight change on the scale.
Boring Workouts
"I'm bored with my workouts, and I think cardio is very boring...."
--One of the silliest workout excuses ever.
Oh really,... are you bored working out? Well no shit,... it 'IS' boring. I've done a lot of exciting things in my life so far
and working out is certainly not one of them. It is just something that needs to be done on a regular basis if you would like to keep yourself fit.
You know what is even more boring than working out though? How about trying on all your clothes and having them not fit, .... with
fat rolls and jiggles everywhere, and a cellulite party all over your ass. That just may be a little bit more boring than working out.
I don't blame anyone for thinking the workout process is supposed to be a thrill though. Just about every single commercial for exercise equipment and
fitness products out there, claims that is is fun (and easy)..... I know what fun is,... and working out isn't any fun and I think everyone knows that or
they would all be doing it everyday. It just comes down to this, fun or not.....if you really want to be fit and take good care of yourself, you are going to have to get your ass up and do your
workouts consistently.
If by chance you ARE doing it just for fun and you're getting big thrills from walking on a treadmill but you don't want to see any results at all,.... then make sure you are never consistent about it and keep starting over every week after you screw up.. This way you are guaranteed not
to ever see any results and you''ll just keep having your fun and thrills with the workout process once in a while.
If you actually DO workout consistently and eat right all the time, you'll keep getting in better shape and that can actually be fun and exciting in it's own
way. But if you are waiting for thrills and excitement everytime you go to the gym or exercise,... I think it will be a long wait.
Diet Books
An important thing that is not discussed in most diet books, is that to reach a fitness goal, there is always some level of hard work and sacrifice involved. It seems few are willing to step forward and speak that very real truth. Everyone wants to hear that you can eat ALL the foods you love while dieting and put in just a tiny amount of exercise, so that becomes the basis for the war of the diet books marketed to the masses. It becomes a contest of who can tell everyone what they want to hear? For example,.. you can eat cookies on my diet! or You can eat anything you want on my diet and lose a lot of weight using a magic secret. It is madness. Isn’t any goal, (no matter what it is) acheived by some level of hard work and sacrifice? Not by doing the ‘least amount possible’ which would be the theme in so many of the diet books? I think I’ll write a diet book called get fit with Poptarts, M&M’s, and booze. ( It won’t work though.)
"Lucky"
When my friends and relatives see me, they will always say: “you’re so lucky you are thin and can eat whatever you want:. I say: ” I eat healthy food all the time, that’s why I’m not fat. Friends: ” oh, well you are sooooooooo lucky that you like you like that stuff because we don’t like it at all.. ha ha ,. We only like all the food that isn’t healthy..ha ha ha:. We crave’ it all the time.
Oh yeah,: that’s right,: it is so LUCKY that I love to eat plain f**king nasty old tuna out of can for some meals while you are snorfing down a delicious f**king pepperoni pizza with extra crust and washing it down with a few vodka tonics, there is no way I would crave eating that scrumptious meal, bring on the smelly plain cold tuna intead because I just f**king LOVE that shit over the amazing smell and taste of a hot fresh extra cheesy pizza. I mean come on, get a f**king grip, who the f**k wouldn’t like the pizza over the tuna,: maybe there are some: but that is strange. The point is,:.. the pizza won’t help me reach my goals, so I’ll take the tuna instead and I won’t complain about it because that is my choice… but it is certainly not my preference, because I am indeed ‘craving’ the pizza. If you don’t care about being in shape, fine..not a problem,.. everyone has different goals and priorities but please don’t call me lucky for making daily sacrifices you are not making.
