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Diavolo · 01-18-2010, 09:37 AM

I just stumbled upon this thread this morning. All I can say is y'all are awesome.

I'm working on getting off some weight this year. It's been my annual goal for the last 10 years and it's time to quit screwing around and just do it. I had to examine what made me do the things that I do and what I could do to change it. I found that this really does get down to the core of who you are. I'm a little different in that I work out at least once every single day. Last year I rode four bicycle events over 50 miles. One was 100 miles. And I was 50 pounds overweight. Talk about hard work hauling that up 6500 feet of climbing!

I applaud candace and everyone else who has joined in on this journey. Getting healthy is one thing, staying healthy is another much tougher process. I wholeheartedly believe that a lot of our problem in this country has to do with marketers and what they tell us we should want. Whether it is wanting to look like, I don't know who the current "It" girl is but you know where I'm going with that, or whether it's things we should want or things we should want to eat. We're inundated with it. Couple that with the food based culture, (I just think of the Tongan guys they've had on BL, but it applies to almost every culture) and it's a recipe for disaster.

Taking back your own life, loving yourself to making positive changes to yourself is such a rarity in our society. Right now we're all about "this is the way I am and fuck you". I don't buy in to that. I want to be a better person every moment of my life than I was the last one. Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I need to do a better job.

W00t to all who are working to be better, love themselves more, respect themselves, taking back their bodies and becoming healthier!

01-18-2010, 09:37 AM	#83
Diavolo Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Wine Cellar Posts: 163 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 130 Thanked 433 Times in 117 Posts Rep Power: 3304128	I just stumbled upon this thread this morning. All I can say is y'all are awesome. I'm working on getting off some weight this year. It's been my annual goal for the last 10 years and it's time to quit screwing around and just do it. I had to examine what made me do the things that I do and what I could do to change it. I found that this really does get down to the core of who you are. I'm a little different in that I work out at least once every single day. Last year I rode four bicycle events over 50 miles. One was 100 miles. And I was 50 pounds overweight. Talk about hard work hauling that up 6500 feet of climbing! I applaud candace and everyone else who has joined in on this journey. Getting healthy is one thing, staying healthy is another much tougher process. I wholeheartedly believe that a lot of our problem in this country has to do with marketers and what they tell us we should want. Whether it is wanting to look like, I don't know who the current "It" girl is but you know where I'm going with that, or whether it's things we should want or things we should want to eat. We're inundated with it. Couple that with the food based culture, (I just think of the Tongan guys they've had on BL, but it applies to almost every culture) and it's a recipe for disaster. Taking back your own life, loving yourself to making positive changes to yourself is such a rarity in our society. Right now we're all about "this is the way I am and fuck you". I don't buy in to that. I want to be a better person every moment of my life than I was the last one. Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I need to do a better job. W00t to all who are working to be better, love themselves more, respect themselves, taking back their bodies and becoming healthier!