My beautiful wife asked me a really interesting question: What motivates you more: seeing an overweight person or seeing a really fit person? This is an AC DC question. Not in a Bon Scott vs. Brian Johnson way. It is a positive-negative question. Never wanting to be overweight again is motivation but that is negative motivation. Striving to be as fit as other people in the gym is a positive motivation.
When I first started Operation 180, I wanted to be fit but I was more sick of being out of shape. The state of your mind is important if you are going to be successful in the weight loss game. As I get closer to my goal, the overweight version of myself seems like a different person. He was fun but he lived without discipline. Due to that disconnect with my former self, seeing overweight people doesn’t motivate me any more. When I see an overweight person now, I don’t pity them. No judgement. Who wants that? I just want to tell them that they can do it to if they really want to. It won’t be easy but they can get there. I don’t want to sound like some bullshit motivation speaker. Doctor Phil is on the phone asshole. I can relate though.
Whether its realistic or not, I feel like I’m doing what healthy people do. I am more motivated by others who are in this camp. Before I started, I didn’t understand skinny people. I was jealous maybe. I just didn’t believe skinniness was possible. How can someone be skinny in 2011? Don’t these people have jobs? Don’t these people take care of their kids? They must be up to something. F**kin’ voodoo. Some are blessed with good genetics. Lucky SOBs. Others just work hard. It is possible to do it. You just have to figure it out. You just have to want to figure it out.
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