Hey, guys!
As I said previously, I’ve changed my approach. I’ve rebuilt it from the ground up. Some of that process is still going on, but for the most part, it’s built.
Simply put; what I set out to accomplish with this blog when I first got started, (to show people what a transformation-journey, a Vi-Challenge, looks like on a day-by-day basis,) I’ve already done, three times over.
My goal was to log in public, what I ate, what I did for exercise and how it all made me feel, day after day after day.
I wanted to show you what actually exists in that nebulous, rarely examined space between the “Before” picture and the “After” picture,... to give you a sense of what I’m going through to reach my very lofty and distant goals.
I wanted to give you a perspective on personal change that showed how, at it’s root, the process and the various daily solutions to this issue are the same for everybody, and that all that changes from person to person is the severity of the problem, (not its nature) and the depth of the focus and effort required to fix it, (not the steps themselves).
I want people with health issues as extreme as mine, to see that it can be done, and I want people who aren’t starting as far up the scale as I am, to perhaps feel a little-better-about, and more in-control-of... their own situation. lol
It’s not enough for me to simply say “If I can do it, you can do it.” I wanted to show you it happening, little by little every single day.
Well, I think the blog has accomplished that.
In the format that I’ve gone with up until now, you guys have come with me on a journey, sliding one-hundred-thirty pounds down the scale. Thus far, the view on this journey I’ve provided you has been very up-close and personal. I’ve showed you the process through a microscope.
That will always be here. I’m not taking any of that down. But, I think, at this point it’s getting redundant to continue with that same approach. This particular drive is a long one, and I think it'll drive all of us crazy to just keep the same song playing on the stereo, the whole trip.
From here on, my posts will be less frequent, and I’m going to be sharing with you, among other things, the significant milestones and the breakthroughs. I’ve also learned a lot in the course of my journey thus far. I’ve learned a lot about nutrition, about exercise, about illness and more than anything, about the psychology of change. Motivation, habit-breaking, emotional eating,... I've become intimately acquainted with each of these facets of the road.
This is a really good moment to start sharing what I’ve learned in a more direct and examined way, in addition to logging the red-letter days along the way.
I’m still keeping a food and exercise log, offline. I can’t stress enough how important that is. In fact, that’s part of what I’m talking about,… things I’ve learned. I have read, (and confirmed via my own experience) that you are far more likely to succeed and to continue to make progress on a more consistent basis if you take a few seconds to write down every single thing that you consume and every single exercise that you perform.
Whenever I have let my journal lapse, so have my results slowed or stopped.
But, I’ll go into that in a lot more detail another time.
Thank you everybody, for following me thus far. I hope you’ll stick with me to see this thing through to the end.
See you soon!
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