Weigh watchers in a nutshell. Screw diets. Count calories. Excercise.

I got a decent treadmill. Started by doing a half hour 4x a week. I started walking, but at full incline. Gradually increased speed/decreased incline. Got up to 8.5 mph for 30 mins. That took about 5-6 months, so it was pretty gradual. The key was working just beyond what was comfortable. Yes treadmills are boring. I have a TV at eye level, with all the fixings DVR, DVD etc.

I admit, I started doing the atkins thing. But do yourself a favor, and read the book before jumping to conclusions. I only did it for about six weeks, before doing just a calorie counting thing. I sort of settled on a pretty consistent thing of light breakfast, salad for lunch (simple, you can buy the packaged lettuce, add some meat (~2oz, cheese 1oz), and light ranch or equivalent dressing). Balance bar as snack. Diet Pepsi, or water all day. Small portion of dinner. Small dessert. Weekends varied, but small portions were the rule.

Get a schedule and keep to it. The weight will come off. When you plateau, just stick to it, push a bit harder or eat a bit less. It is hard. The first two or three weeks are killer. You will get hungry. Hunger means its working!

As for the man of ham in the cart, I enjoy him and those like him. They are huge motivators for me. I vowed long ago to never become a bionic melty creature.

The photo of the gentleman on the Phat Rascal really carries it home. When visiting my parents in East Tennessee I am often greeted by, no shit, whole families of corpulent turds riding the complementary rascals at the Super Wal*Mart. Two by two they creep down the double-wide aisles shoveling marshmallow fluff and ring dings into their motorized flab conveyances. My father has since dubbed these in-store blimp hooptys as “FPC’s” which stands, predictably, for Fat People Carts.

I for one am looking forward to a week of practical info for fighting the battle of the bulge. Because it’s a fight I have to take seriously every damned day. And pics like the one on this post are what motivate me to get my ass to the gym even when I just don’t feel like it.

Huzzah.

It IS hard work, as hard as possible, in fact, but it is worth the effort. Just make sure to adjust your diet accordingly and EAT the part.

Cheers,
Alexander

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