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This will be as close as you see me get to venting…but hold onto your hats.  Reading experience to follow!

Whenever I have the same event happen twice in a small time frame, my mind immediately thinks I must get this point across to my readers.  Well, twice in the last few days I have made someone mad by not replying to their cries for help quickly enough.

People, people, people, listen here!  (Y’all know my feathers are ruffled because I said your name three times.)

YOUR weight loss is YOUR responsibility and YOURS alone.

I get quite a few calls for help.  I spend probably 20 hours a week answering E-mail questions for help and guidance.  If you message me, and I hope you do, you can count on a two week lag time before I reply.  Especially if you want some specific help.

I always open my messages each day to make sure nothing needs immediate attention, but as a general rule, it will take me some time to get back to you.

But twice in the last few days, once in person and once through the message boards I was requested to come up with a diet for two different people….with absolutely no information given to me.  And this is something I am more than happy to do, but this takes time.  You see, I don’t keep generic responses.  I read each request and take it to heart…and reply to each as an individual worthy of spending time on.

And here’s where it gets sticky….in both cases, the asker gave up on me and griped when I didn’t give a response in less than 24 hours.   They gave up. That fast. 

Or did they really give up on themselves?  Again.

If you are putting all your eggs in someone else’s basket…don’t. 

Carry your own. 

When I started out, I had no clue either. 

I would sit on the floor for hours at the diet and nutrition section of Books-A-Million and read.  I became a walking encyclopedia of diets.  I knew them all.  I even read the ones I had no intention of trying….like the Blood Type diet.  I’m not going to ever try that…but I could tell you about it.  I’m O+.  I should eat the Akins way.  See.  I read.  I learned.  I studied.  I knew.  I knew them ALL.

I did the same with cardio.  I sat on the floor and read every book about every form of cardio I could find.  I read about running marathons when I could only walk a mile. 

And, you guessed it, I did the same thing with lifting.  I got this information more from the magazine section though.  I sat and looked at pictures of proper forms for weeks before I ever ventured from the free weights to actually practice what I saw.

No one is born with the skills to build a sculpted body.  It’s a learned skill.

No one is born knowing what diet works best for them, again, it’s a learned skill.

So to use, “I don’t know where to start,” will simply not cut it.

If you are expecting someone else to do all the thinking and all the working for you, or if you give up in less than 24 hours waiting for a reply….you do not want it as badly as I did.

Get up.  Dust yourself off.  Go to the bookstore.

There is a book with your name on it.

But….you might want to start with The Power of Positive Thinking….because that’s what it’s going to take, my friend.  That’s what it’s going to take.

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