miked512’s BodyBlog

I’m writing this in response to dnsigma’s post here:  http://blog.bodybuilding.com/dnsigma/2008/12/01/authoring-your-life-part-2/

Check it out and write your own.  Not my turn.
This story has to be filled with humor because I try to be a funny guy, so you can either laugh or wonder just how twisted I am.

As a kid, I was skinny as all hell.  LMAO, and I always wanted to not be so skinny.  However, to add insult to injury my dad wanted to make an athlete out of me and I wanted to read and do nerd stuff, so his forcing athletics down my throat and me not wanting to do it kinda presented a bit of a conflict.  Suffice to say, I won that battle and the only athletic thing I did was some judo here and there.  So at 12 or 13, I decided to use this brain of mine to get myself into shape and unskinny by reading.  I even took a weightlifting class at 14 but thanks in part to my cruddy school system, that didn’t work out and after that I realized I had a nerdy image to uphold.  I stopped the whole wanting to not be skinny thing and decided to do it in college.  College got me some gains as all of my previous reading seemed to help a lot.  Then well, I got myasthenia gravis and that really threw me for a loop.  I kept training though despite the fact seeing took considerable effort.  I gained some good weight and all until well, my doctor finally figured out it was myasthenia gravis.  Then came prednisone and this is my history:

skinny as sticks -> graduate high school at whopping 125 lbs -> lift and eat like a college student for a few years and grow to a whopping 165 lbs -> get myasthenia gravis,  take prednisone, eat like a college student, balloon to 240 lbs

WOW, so at any rate, through the MG treatment (I even got a pretty scar!!), the elimination of the prednisone, and my road to not being a fat ass to the current condition I’m in now, I’ve learned a great deal.  So of course, since I’ve learned a great deal, I’ve begun to live, breathe, eat, and crap out this stuff.  Of course I try to spread the knowledge around to others and it hits them even though its slightly different from what they’ve heard.  They may listen and they may not, but I know the best way to get them to listen is for me to look the part and unfortunately, I don’t think I look the part (even though I’m a lot closer than I have been).

Well, isn’t that sad?

So how do I get there?  By looking at all of you bastards in better condition than I am and getting angry about my slackfulness.  By looking at bastards behind me that are gaining on me and improving their condition at a rate better than me.  I’ve got to outpace you all.  By reading all of this information and wanting to try all of it. By remembering my past condition and realizing I’m past it and knowing that I have to keep at it to keep all of that long behind me.  To make sure I can be young forever and of course, I’m vain.  I have to look completely awesome all the time.
Sure, I have my battle with wanting to put aside going to the gym to do development work and make some extra income.  I have issues with sticking to diets and planning out meals.  I get overwhelmed with projects for work and my personal life and I know one day, a doctoral program is going to snag me in its clutches (as one has dnsigma) and try to insure that I never have time to keep this workout thing going strong.  However, in the end, I know health is the most important asset I’ve got and one I need to keep going strong.  I’m not getting any younger … or am I??

Besides, what the hell else am I going to do?  Go to work, come home, watch TV and eat twinkies all day, and play lottery every week in hopes that I can win, retire, and just change that to stay home, watch TV, and eat twinkies all day??  There’s a life out there to create and continually update it.  Take it by the horns and wrestle it to the ground.

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