What Goes Through Your Head After You’ve Lost The Weight.

When I was racing bicycles (1980) and weighed 158 lbs, I said out-loud "I will always be this weight." Pride comes before the fall (or gain) in my case. Five weeks ago (at 51 years of age) I was 200 lbs. I'm on the HCG diet now that a friend turned me onto and as of this morning I weigh 177 lbs. This already makes me look normal instead of frumpy. I’m down 23 pounds with 14 pounds remaining before I hit my ideal weight of 163 lbs.

My point in this blog is to simply to record my thoughts while losing weight, not to explain or promote the HCG diet. I will say, however that it is absolutely painless (no hunger), defies logic in the sense that you really can lose more than dieticians tell you and can do it in a very short time-frame. Again, my point is not to promote the HCG diet but if want to know about it, let me know and I’ll refer you to my friend.

OK so my thoughts - I have been rather surprised by the thoughts that have been bouncing around in my head. Strangely I find that my thinking has shifted. In particular

• I think of the new clothes I’m going to wear and how they will hang on my limbs.

• I’m planning a new wardrobe. New suit, business slacks, Levi 501 jeans like I wore in high-school, tight fitting sweaters.

• I see young, thin people and think, just a few more weeks and I’ll be wearing your clothes.

• I wonder why I didn’t do this twenty years ago.

• I’ve been doing quite a bit of weight training especially for my abs and core so that after the fat melts off, I’ll rediscover my old six-pack abs back.

• I must work on building up my butt muscles so my pants will stop falling off.

• I think of the people I’ll beat-up on the tennis court.

• I plan to take my shirt off and bask in the sun and get a tan. My stomach hasn’t seen the light of day for 25 years.

• I feel more successful and I have the feeling like there’s really nothing that I can’t accomplish in life.

• New horizons seem to have opened. My wife and I could go live in England for example or some other points-distant. Nothing is out of the question.

• I have more energy and feel more encouraged about life in general.

• I see myself maintaining this weight the rest of my life.

• I see myself eating certain foods after I’m off the diet; in particular fried-chicken . . . mmm.

Live the Dream or Become a Pickle

"The best part of college is that you could become whatever you wanted to become, but most people just do what they think they must. - Seth Godin, Social Networking Guru

Introspection is a good thing. On a regular basis I ask myself, "Is this really what I want to be doing with my life or is this what I'm settling for?"

I see so many people taking the safe job instead of living out their dreams. I can think of two Christian friends working in an industry where Christians should not be but hey, it's safe; there's good health insurance, and no chance of getting laid-off.

Obviously the bills must get paid but when we squash ourselves into a barrel like pickles, doing distasteful things in mind-numbing places, something inside us dies.

I'd rather die broke, living out my dreams and striving for greatness and wealth in a place that requires creativity, risk and brains than settle for the medium income in a place that turns me into a pickle.