4 May
The Honesty Challenge
I read about The Diet Pulpit’s Honesty Challenge on Healthy Honi’s blog. I hope I am the first of the FatBloggers to post their ‘Ten Reasons”. Not being one to pass up a good meme, here we go!
List the 10 reasons you HONESTLY want to lose weight. It can be positive changes that will need to be made, or it can be the reasons deep down you want to make these changes.
1. I want to feel better in my40’s than I did in my 30’s.
2. Since you don’t see Willard Scott wishing a Happy Birthday to a fat guy, I need to make a change.
3. I was always embarrassed when my fat parents would show up at school events. I wanted to crawl into a hole when my friends would ask, “Are they your parents?”. I don’t want to put my kids through that more than I already have.
4. Just ask my wife, I love to buy clothes. Do you realize how much MORE fun that would be if I could buy ‘off the rack’?
5. After losing just 30lbs. my knees don’t hurt as bad and I have more energy. I want to see what it will feel like to lose 100 lbs.
6. I want to do Cycle Oregon.
7. I want to be able to fit behind the wheel of my dream car, 1966 Mustang Fastback.
8. I want to fit comfortably in the rides at Disneyland.
9. I want to ENJOY traveling with my wife in retirement, being those retired couples that walk along the beach wearing matching blue windbreakers.
10. I most definitely still want to be enjoying the “marriage bed” when we get back to the Winnebago.
TAG… you’re it.
Posted by Rick on 04.05.07 at 7:15 pm
1. I want people to recognize me again.
2. I want to look good.
3. I want to feel good.
4. I want to be able to go up a flight of stairs without getting winded.
5. My future right now is uncertain: Being thinner and healthier will help me through those days ahead.
6. I want to look decent at the aquatic center this summer.
7. I like to collect paper clips.
8. GERD.
9. I’m really NOT immortal like I thought I was in my 20’s and 30’s.
10. Thin people have a 28% less chance of being abducted by aliens than heavier people.
Posted by John on 04.05.07 at 7:15 pm
Good List!
If I could go to 15, I would add #4,6, 7 and 10.
btw… you’re lookin’ pretty good for an OLD MAN!
Happy Birthday bro!
Posted by John on 04.05.07 at 7:15 pm
My wife says that #10 isn’t true… I’m not sure that I want an explanation.
Posted by Rick on 04.05.07 at 7:15 pm
Thanks…I almost forgot the reason that should have been at the top of this list. I have no fewer than 13 pairs of pants in my closet that I will be able to wear comfortably in another 15 pounds or so. End of June? Maybe…it’s my next goal.