ChickenTuna’s BodyBlog

I thought I had this posted here, but I didn’t so here it is…  I wrote this after having many experiences over the years with all sorts of people trying to get me to eat their crap.  Coworkers, family members, and neighbors are the worst.  And the letter is not directed towards anyone who just politely offers something nice to eat,… people will always be offering food and it’s just customary.  It is directed to the people who don’t accept a polite ‘no thank you’ and they keep pushing and pushing and questioning your choices

Hello There!

 Were you trying to push someone who has taken on the challenge of a fitness goal,  into eating some crap?   This person has set out on a mission to get herself in the best shape of her life. This requires eating some food that doesn’t taste as great as what you are offering  and it is very difficult and challenging to say no. It is a very very difficult sacrifice to make in  giving up all the more delicious tasting foods in pursuit of a fit body and it becomes even more difficult when people like you constantly question what she is eating and and keep offering her more crappy food to eat. The crappy food you are offering may taste so delicious but the very sad and unfortunate truth is that it makes our  bodies look like total shit. I wish it weren’t the case, but it is true.
 
Even if this person doesn’t need to lose any weight, the crappy food will STILL make her/his body look like shit so it’s not only  about gaining or losing weight, it’s about staying fit.   Here is a person  trying to accomplish a very difficult goal of getting and staying in great shape, and you come along and try to throw her/him off course. How about giving her a little support instead ? This process is very challenging.
 
If you want to eat  crap  go right ahead,.. we all make our own choices but there is no need to try and drag others down with you.   Or maybe you just don’t realize that eating crap makes you look like crap (many people don’t know that) and you think it is just genetics or aging that causes us to  have dangling lard all over our bodies?   It doesn’t have to be that way.    Start eating right as well, and you will soon see how nice you will start to look and feel and you will see that it is worth giving up the crap.   There is no doubt that it SUCKS saying no all the time to the pizzas, the cookies, the cakes, the ice cream and such. It really does SUCK. 

As delicious as all the crappy foods can be,   they don’t come close to being as fun as it is to walk around in a lean, hard, tight body and look good in any piece of clothing. The right food  will give you this look and feeling…foods such as plain chicken, oatmeal, fish, and vegetables. It’s a hard pill to swallow in giving up all the goodies  but once you accept the facts you can make the best of it. How would you like to go clothes shopping and have everything look good on you? It is completely possible if you’ll stop eating all the crap and make the right choices each day.

 So there you have it. That is why you were reported  as a “crap pusher”.      Eating right and exercising is very hard work but very worthwhile mission and you are welcome to join in on the ‘fun’!   If you don’t want to, no big deal but please stop pushing the crap on others and just keep it to yourself.

Feeling Deprived?

I hear this a lot.. I am offered cakes, muffins, and all kinds of delicious assorted pastries on a daily basis at my real estate office and many other places (drooling over the Starbucks pastry case every morning). I always turn them down, and I’ll hear so many people say to me, “why deprive yourself?… life is too short.”

I see these people chowing down all the muffins every week and I’m actually thinking the same thing about them… Aren’t they depriving themselves of nice bodies by eating them everyday? None of these people are in shape and they are all sitting around with big belly rolls and jiggles all over their bodies. I’m just thinking to myself when I see them, that they are depriving themselves of the great feeling of being fit. They are depriving themselves of being at their best. So I guess it’s all in how you look at it. I’ve personally never felt deprived by turning down the goodies. Sure I love them. I was raised on junk food and sugar,.. it’s like mother’s milk to me. But the feeling of being fit all the time is far greater to me than the temporary satisfaction of feasting on the morning pastry basket. So I will keep turning them down (not easy though) and I will not be depriving myself of the body I want. Everyone has different fitness goals, but I think no matter what they are, it will have to involve some level of making cutbacks on all that stuff. So next time you’re feeling like ‘oh, poor me… I can’t eat that stuff for my fitness goals’.. focus on what you’re getting (the body you want),… not what you’re giving up and it gives it a new positive perspective. A fit body requires a lot of food, but unfortunately you probably won’t reach your fitness goals by feeding on doughnuts, cookies and cakes.  I have to look at those goodies practically every single day, and I don’t think they’ll ever go away, so that is how I get past it.