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Holiday Cheer get Fat with Beer =) Cut that Gut and get off the Butt - Running, Boxing, Jumping, Sweating !!!!!

Here we are a week from the biggest holiday of the year where people gather and stuff themselves as full as they can be because they are thankful for all they have. Then they go out and shop for more of the things they think they or a loved one needs. 

I love Thanksgiving as much as the next person but I am not going to let it be an excuse this year for dropping my diet and exercise routine. I have been thinking a lot about how I feel and look in the state I am in now. The term diet does not really mean a short lived plan we put ourselves on but what we consume to sustain our life energy. I need to adopt the diet that will keep me in the shape I want and need to be in no matter what I do for exercise. Really most of how we look is determined by what and how much we eat. There is a saying that abs are made in the kitchen and I agree. Most of what people think is attractive or fit is really simply being a lower body fat percentage. That is something you can modify by what you put in your mouth. My grandma Betty had a saying that rings in my ears event to this day it was "a minute on the lips, a lifetime on the hips". Now I don't know that the idea is solid but it does open the door for conversation. Grandma would also say that nothing tasted as good as looking good feels. These quotes came from a woman who was over weight most of her adult life. 

What I am getting at is I have had enough of dieting and I just want to change my life and my diet for good. I hope you are a little fed up as well and want to join me. Why should most of America be fat and the rate of obesity be ever increasing in our youth? It is time we stop all of this insanity.

I pledge to work out hard the whole week of Thanksgiving. I will eat breakfast on the big turkey day, eat a moderate main meal and have some desert. I will not eat as I have in the past until I feel like I need to puke or even to the point where I need to take a nap. I will go for a walk with my wife and kids after the meal and have a cup of hot coffee. 

I would like you to pledge with me that you will not bring the extra shovel to your mouth and dig your grave a little faster. I want to live a long life for my kids and I want you to life a long life for the sake of life. I would like to get through the holiday season not only having connected with people I love and have not seen for some time but also by being in even better health than I am in now.

Sorry if I seem a little harsh in this post but I feel I need to be some time. I think I am my own best critic. I am always harder on myself than other people are. I do however remember one time that was really hurtful. I was about 12 and wearing a green T-shirt with a pocket and my dad said "5 more pockets and you would make a great pool table."  wow what a great thing to say to a chubby young kid who already had self esteem issues around weight. Anyway I will not be that kid anymore. I will be a hard, strong adult who is here to comfort that kid and defend him.