Surround Yourself with Doers at All Times!
I suddenly realize that it matters greatly whom you surround yourself. This enlightenment occurred after reading Aluschka’s Transformation log. My transformation began June 2007. At that time I frequented Bikenet Forums and Bodybuildin.com. I was using FitDay to monitor my food intake and lost 20 pounds. Then I found a site called SparksPeople that I thought offered a better food database than FitDay. Soon after the switch I fell off the wagon and gained the 20 pounds back. Why did that happen?
Originally I attributed my setback to stress from work and family, but now I know that was not the cause at all. There is a big difference between the people found on Bodybuilding.com/Bikenet and SparksPeople. The former are filled with athletic people and people that have made tremendous changes to their body. There are also out-of-shape individuals like myself on those forums as well. SparksPeople on the other hand caters to weight loss. The people on those forums are almost exclusively overweight women (Note that they have many group forums and I belonged to several but no where near all so your experience may differ).
Before I go on I want to say that SparksPeople did not make me gain that 20 pounds back.
I don’t talk about losing weight with my family beyond rules for where food is placed in the house. I get my support from these forums and vent my angst to these same forums. Bikenet, Bodybuilding, and Precision Nutrition forums are filled with can do people. These people are not phony positive and they aren’t looking for any quick/easy fix. In many cases they are highly accomplished athletes. This is where reading Aluschka’s log helped me realize this. Aluschka was a pro beach volleyball player and is in great shape, but she is not satisfied. She wants to be in top shape. Wow!
While I was on SparksPeople there was tons of touchy-feely support. There were some that had lost weight, but most still needed to lose and they constantly needed help. These people were looking for the quick-fix. They played at getting fit. They were not really willing to change for good. They wanted their Transformation and Eat Junk too.
There is no place for that here. If I fall off the wagon it is expected that I get up, brush off the dirt, and soldier on to health. No one expects me to be a pro bodybuilder or bicyclist, but they do expect me to do, not talk, not think, Do. If I don’t do for a period of time I don’t post in these forums because I know that is not what these forums are all about. Sure people fail to reach 90% compliance at times, but they don’t wallow in it. They don’t want others to join them in their wallowing.
Surround your self with the best to be the best. Surround yourself with doers to do!
October 29, 2007 at 12:22 pm
So true! I believe this 100%
October 29, 2007 at 12:34 pm
You are right on the money. I will only support doers. I hate all of that touchy feely crap. If someonme wants a better life/better health they gotta get off their ass. I should not have to tell someone the benefits of better health. I feel that if I can do it so can you. If not, have another hamburger and a cigarette and get to the pharmacy to pick up your high blood pressure and diabetes medicine.