Forever Body Transformation
You’re feeling sluggish in the face of all the action on the screen when, suddenly, somebody wakes up in you and says, “What are you doing? Look at yourself, You’re FAT ! You’re OUT OF SHAPE ! DO something about it!” It has happened to all of us.
You go to sleep dreaming of winning the Maui Ocean Front Marathon. Why not? The way things are going, it’s only a matter of time. Tuesday night you get on the scale. Another pound gone! You’re incredible. Amazing. A lean machine. On Wednesday, you really pour it on. You work out an extra hour in the morning, an extra half-hour at night. You can’t wait to get on the scale. You strip down to your bare skin, shivering in the bathroom, filled with expectation of what your scale is going to tell you.
You’re munching on some nachos with the works (and you know what I mean) and you’re chasing it down with a big glass of soda.
Have you ever decided to go on a diet? DUH ?! I mean, that’s why you’re listening to this—right? Ok, you’re sitting in front of the TV one Sunday afternoon, watching …let’s say an Iron Man Triathlon, and you are awed by the athletes’ stamina and dexterity.
You’re buying a new pair of running shoes, barbells, resistance bands and sweats. Things are going to be different around here. You have a new lease on life. You plan your new life: up at 5, run four miles, cold shower at six, breakfast of granola with almond milk and a banana; then ride your bicycle to work, home by seven, run another two miles, to bed at ten—the world’s already a different place! And you actually pull it off! By Monday night, you’ve lost two pounds.
In this case, let’s call that person The Skinny Person. So Who is The Skinny Person? It’s the one who uses words like discipline, exercise, organization. The Skinny Person is tolerant, self-righteous, a stickler for detail, a compulsive tyrant. The Skinny Person despises fat people. Can’t stand idleness. Needs to be on the move. Lives for action. The Skinny Person has just taken over. Watch out—things are about to change! Before you know it, you’re cleaning all the fattening foods out of the fridge.
Somebody wakes up inside us with a totally different picture of who we should be and what we should be doing.