{"id":1074,"date":"2005-06-11T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:51:45","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
Christopher Mills<\/b> posted some “heavy thoughts”<\/b> over on his web log. In his post, Chris<\/b> talks about his struggle with being overweight<\/b>. It’s pretty poweful<\/b> stuff. <\/div>\n
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My buddy, John Beatty<\/b> recently posted similar thoughts about his fight against weight<\/b> gain<\/b> and had even started a blog to track his efforts to lose weight. I posted here<\/b><\/a> that I thought that was pretty bold<\/b>, going public with his plan. John<\/b> has since pulled the plug on his blog, but his battle to lose weight continues [and is going well].<\/p>\n

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It’s strange that Chris <\/b>and I are in the same boat [although I’d venture a guess that my boat is even bigger] but that we got here by different paths. Chris<\/b> says that he was skinny<\/b> for the first half of his life. I was never skinny. As a little kid I was “husky” [man, I hated that word]. <\/p>\n

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In high school<\/b> I was in pretty good shape. I played football<\/b>, lifted weights<\/b>, and was a pretty good wrestler<\/b>. And consequently I was in shape<\/b>. I remember a couple of my coaches who were heavy<\/b>. At the time I thought, “Man, why don’t they get in shape? I’ll never let myself get like that.”<\/p>\n

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Then I graduated high school<\/b> and started college<\/b>. I was no longer playing football<\/b> or wrestling<\/b> and had stopped jogging<\/b>. The first year I gained a bunch of weight<\/b>. At the end of the year, I started running<\/b> again… and lifting weights<\/b>. I got back into wrestling shape<\/b>… and said “never again… never again will I get overweight<\/b>.”<\/p>\n

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Yeah, right. <\/p>\n

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Once you’re married, have a job, have kids<\/b>, heck, as you get older<\/b>, the weight gain comes easier<\/b>… as do the excuses<\/b> to not eat right <\/b>and exercise<\/b>. Because really, that’s what it comes down to. <\/p>\n

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Eating right<\/b> and exercise<\/b>. <\/p>\n

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My goal<\/b> is to get back into shape<\/b>. <\/p>\n

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I’ll probably never make the 188lb class<\/b> again, but my goal<\/b> is small steps back to decent shape<\/b>.<\/p>\n

I don’t plan to talk about my progress [or lack of] much here. In fact I’m surprised that I’m even saying this much. I guess the fact that Beatty<\/b> and Chris<\/b> were willing to go public, made me at least “weigh in”<\/b> on the subject. <\/p>\n

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At any rate, you’ll be able to tell from the pictures that I post from time to time how I’m doing. Maybe in a year or two, you’ll wonder, “Who is that normal sized guy that kinda looks like Zablo<\/b>?”<\/p>\n

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