Found this draft... never posted it.
So with 37 days in P90x quickly became P53x! I have lost a total of 20lbs burnt a total of 6500 calories in a month. Its amazing what exercise can do for you. Physically and mentally. I'm reestablishing that relationship I had with myself when I was younger.
Its difficult to get started and everything I seem to do only frustrates me more i.e. from form, my balance and making time...coming up with excuses is the easy but dragging myself off the couch and making my body do something it doesn't want to...is a great way for getting back at myself for getting FAT to begin with. I show myself no mercy....I don't care what I say, do or feel...I will workout today. I will push myself harder than I did yesterday. Soon enough, my body will learn my new ways and ask for more, not less.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
WORRY! Some new DaddyYO thoughts...
Being a Dad. Its a balancing act- 100 story high wire act, barefoot and no safety lines. The only thing separating yourself from reaching the other side is the confidence and your ability to believe, one way or another, you will make it to the other side...no matter what!
Than again, there are days where your left hanging in the middle of two buildings, no escape and you feel failure is inevitable. I've learned, as soon as you make failure a choice/option, can failing actually become a reality. The precursor to failure is worry.
I used to worry about losing my job, being a good dad, will my kids love me? Will they look up to me? respect me??...Now-a-days, I don't really worry about that anymore. As long as I love them as much as I do and do the right things as a father, husband and role model, success/happiness for my BUGS and myself is inevitable.
Four weeks ago, I caught a glimpse of me in the mirror. I felt like shit, I looked like shit. Three days after that I was at the Dr. office. I was asked to take my shirt off. "Shit! I'm so fucking FAT! How did this happen? " I said to myself in the vacant room waiting for the Dr to come in. At that very second something aligned in me. It was time for a BIG FAT change.
I was overweight, I asked the Doctor: "Can I have a heart attack? the Doctor responded: "Anyone can really have a heart attack"... So that is he's polite way of saying YES!. I was worried. "Thanks DOC for adding to my stress that is more inclined to kill me than my actual weight!" Ive recently realized so much time is spent on WORRYING! Its sickening, worrying is fantasy and is not real ... that is until it kills you!
We worry about our jobs, family to our health...what-a-waste of energy and time. I don't want to turn this into some ROCKY post! and the long story made short ...I started P90X, I'm running everyday and eating right. In 4 weeks, Ive lost 15 lbs and simply feel much better about myself and I'm just getting started. Ya see, exercising as a DaddyYO is not all about looking good as it was when I was younger. Now-a-days It's more about my LittleYO and CookieYO. I need to be around for them as they get older, so I can tell them NOT TO WORRY! FACT: Because nobody else will! From their teacher, coach, boss, girlfriend/boyfriend, AND DOCTOR!
....Will I pass my test? Will I make the team? Is she/he going to break up with me? Am I going to get fired? Am I going to have a heart attack!!!?? Listen closely....all these worries and outcomes... none of them matter, it never did (If someone only told me that when I was younger). Of all the lessons you learn in this life, one of the most important lessons is to not take life so seriously....take life as it comes because your worry is simply your own and its likely, in this self absorbed world, that nobody is paying ( or caring) as much attention to your actions as they are about their own. Just take your time, make serious decisions ( about your own love, eating, exercise, work habits etc) with the choices you're presented and everything else will follow for the better. Don't worry.
... and as "complicated" as we make life, is as complicated we can make our own happiness. Spend time balancing yourself, not relationships. Balance your thoughts, and their is no worry. Believe in yourself and your choices and you will happier than you could ever imagine.
Love DaddyYO
P.S While you are here.....PLEASE CLICK ON AN AD(s)! By doing so, money made from Google ads will go toward my LittleYO's and CookieYO college tuition CLICK CLICK CLICK AWAY!
Than again, there are days where your left hanging in the middle of two buildings, no escape and you feel failure is inevitable. I've learned, as soon as you make failure a choice/option, can failing actually become a reality. The precursor to failure is worry.
I used to worry about losing my job, being a good dad, will my kids love me? Will they look up to me? respect me??...Now-a-days, I don't really worry about that anymore. As long as I love them as much as I do and do the right things as a father, husband and role model, success/happiness for my BUGS and myself is inevitable.
Four weeks ago, I caught a glimpse of me in the mirror. I felt like shit, I looked like shit. Three days after that I was at the Dr. office. I was asked to take my shirt off. "Shit! I'm so fucking FAT! How did this happen? " I said to myself in the vacant room waiting for the Dr to come in. At that very second something aligned in me. It was time for a BIG FAT change.
I was overweight, I asked the Doctor: "Can I have a heart attack? the Doctor responded: "Anyone can really have a heart attack"... So that is he's polite way of saying YES!. I was worried. "Thanks DOC for adding to my stress that is more inclined to kill me than my actual weight!" Ive recently realized so much time is spent on WORRYING! Its sickening, worrying is fantasy and is not real ... that is until it kills you!
We worry about our jobs, family to our health...what-a-waste of energy and time. I don't want to turn this into some ROCKY post! and the long story made short ...I started P90X, I'm running everyday and eating right. In 4 weeks, Ive lost 15 lbs and simply feel much better about myself and I'm just getting started. Ya see, exercising as a DaddyYO is not all about looking good as it was when I was younger. Now-a-days It's more about my LittleYO and CookieYO. I need to be around for them as they get older, so I can tell them NOT TO WORRY! FACT: Because nobody else will! From their teacher, coach, boss, girlfriend/boyfriend, AND DOCTOR!
....Will I pass my test? Will I make the team? Is she/he going to break up with me? Am I going to get fired? Am I going to have a heart attack!!!?? Listen closely....all these worries and outcomes... none of them matter, it never did (If someone only told me that when I was younger). Of all the lessons you learn in this life, one of the most important lessons is to not take life so seriously....take life as it comes because your worry is simply your own and its likely, in this self absorbed world, that nobody is paying ( or caring) as much attention to your actions as they are about their own. Just take your time, make serious decisions ( about your own love, eating, exercise, work habits etc) with the choices you're presented and everything else will follow for the better. Don't worry.
... and as "complicated" as we make life, is as complicated we can make our own happiness. Spend time balancing yourself, not relationships. Balance your thoughts, and their is no worry. Believe in yourself and your choices and you will happier than you could ever imagine.
Love DaddyYO
P.S While you are here.....PLEASE CLICK ON AN AD(s)! By doing so, money made from Google ads will go toward my LittleYO's and CookieYO college tuition CLICK CLICK CLICK AWAY!
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