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People actively trying to get thinner

People actively trying to get fatter

I’ve been on a bit of a health kick lately and when I was reflecting on lbs. past this morning (I’ve lost about 19 oz. in the last month – one step at a time), I realized something.  You’re either actively trying to get fitter, or actively trying to get fatter.  There is no in-between.  There is no actively trying to stay the same.

I know this because I’ve experienced both ends of the spectrum.  I have the, “Holy crap, I’m fat and lazy and have a resting heart rate of a hummingbird on meth and I’m in my late 20s and my dad is in better shape than I am and I’m going to die before my parents and miss out on the inheritance,” days.  Hopefully, those days are behind me.  Right now, I’m having the, “I am going to bike 100 miles a week for the rest of my life, have washboard abs, and not look like a Swiffer commercial where the thin, cute wife has a bald, fat husband with heart disease in a bright yellow shirt stretched over man boobs.”  Seriously, pay more attention to the next Swiffer ad.

When you’re in “get fatter” mode, you’re just telling yourself that you enjoy eating out and good food and who gives a crap if you have a little plump around you.  Then you realize that you can actually hear your own heartbeat after you finish eating a steak and you can see a vein in your leg pulsing as your heart struggles to get oxygen to your ever-expanding empire of fat.  Sort of like ancient Rome, your expansionist ways will ultimately be your undoing.

But my “get fitter” mode is also unrealistic, I fear.  I’m sort of like a kamikaze pilot about fitness, throwing myself at improving my health headlong and ultimately burning myself out.  They call people like me, “roller coaster dieters,” or something like that, because of the highs and lows.  Well, I’m back on the climb, folks.  Or is that the descent?  Which one is good?  It’s sort of like saying someone is off the wagon.  Or on the wagon…  Is the wagon good or bad?  Nobody knows.  We just know that when there’s a positive and a negative involved, we like to put people around something that rolls.

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August 4, 2009 | Filed Under health 

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5 Responses to “Supersize me”

  1. Lola on August 4th, 2009

    Applying the extreme theory to your diet I see.
    There is such a thing as actively trying to stay the same.
    Here’s how it works: I don’t alter my diet, but I am at the gym at least 45 minutes a day. I’m not losing any weight, which isn’t ideal, but I’m not gaining any either. See how that works? Those who are actively trying to get fit recognize it’s a combination of diet and exercise that will help them meet their goals. Those that are actively trying to get fat know if they eat crap and don’t exercise, they’ll get fat. Weight maintenance is choosing to focus on either diet or exercise and slacking on the other.

  2. Garrett on August 4th, 2009

    The “ever-expanding empire of fat” refers to the “U-S-and-A” in general.

  3. Shawn on August 4th, 2009

    This is totally awesome..I am exactly the same way..I go headlong into getting fit…don’t see immediate changes…get bored…and then go back to getting fatter..which is a hell of a lot easier.

  4. Nic on August 6th, 2009

    I lost 9 pounds in June and gained 4 in July. I hear you loud and clear. I partially blame being on the road for work three of the last four weeks. But I know better. I’m a roller coaster dieter.

    But I’m back in lose mode. Starting tomorrow. :D

  5. Nic on August 6th, 2009

    @Lola: You are probably already at your ideal weight. That’s completely different. None of is are. Hehe.

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