Something to Be Tha(i)nkful About…
Thanks for all the feedback letting me know the site is functioning. Appreciated. Things will be coming online…
I will use this blog for simple updates for the next few days till things get settled, then I will move simple updates to “Misc. Update” page at Main Site, as I told you. Don’t worry, I’ll give you directions and links…
Many of you followed up on my comments on the recent election asking me what I thought of us being begged to vote “for the lesser of two evils.” What, are you mind readers? I’d already written a draft on that exact thing. I will edit and post it asap.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Some of you wrote asking me advice about diet, that you needed to lose weight. Of course, I get plenty of emails asking for health and exercise advice. But I had to laugh when some of you asked me what I would suggest you eat tomorrow! Advise you about how to restrain your eating tomorrow, only one day before you go to Grandma’s for T-day, where she cooks everything with extra TLC (i.e., more sugar and butter and the stuff that is definitely not good for you)?
My advise is to eat as much as you can — I mean eat IT ALL. Eat till it starts seeping out the pores of your skin. Eat like 10 Pigs at a trough and there’s a demon in your head telling you that all the food in the World will be gone tomorrow. Eat till you get physically ill. And after you get sick, throw up — go eat more. Skip the turkey, pass right over all of the good stuff — go straight for the dessert table and eat every diabetes-engendering pie, cookie, and cake that is spread before you. Make sure you drink tons of fluids. This will bloat you and bring on nausea quicker. Whole milk is best. Once you’ve lost your appetite for being sick, force yourself to go out and run sprints, say 40 yards at least, if you can do 100 yarders, go for it, all the better. Run till you drop. Get up. Go again. Drop again. Go again till you drop again. I mean drop. Face down. Flat and out. Have one of your relatives watch so they can call 911 when you’ve pancaked.
This is my advice. If I was joking here about being ‘seriously’ asked at the last minute, I’d let you in on the joke. But I was not. More than a handful of people wrote and ask just as I’m telling you. When you take your health so unseriously, don’t expect others to make it serious for you. I just don’t know what else to tell you to have you get it that good health doesn’t start on its own. No one can buy it for you as a Christmas gift. You can’t get back what aspects of health you damage forever. I know they say: “When you love something set it free. If it comes back it was yours. if not, it never was.” Believe me, scrap this sentimentality when it comes to your health. Hold on to it and don’t listen when it growls that you are just too jealous to relax and give it some space. That’s the problem now. Too much space — your ass is taking up too much. It used to be when someone said, “Move your ass!” it meant let’s get going, speed it up a bit. Now, it really means: move THE ass. “Move your ass, so I can get around it.”
If your health has truly gone all to hell and you just keep stepping to the side letting it, the only way to whack your self-discipline back into taking orders again might be to make yourself sick near death about what you’ve become. Look, if you are overweight — do not eat. Discipline demands. It’s that simple.
You ever hear this phrase: “cold turkey?” Sure you have. Many people think it has to do with quitting “cold” smoking or drugs, etc. Wrong. A regular, very out-of-shape guy decided one Thanksgiving morning he’d had enough. So, somewhere, somehow, he summoned up the small bit of discipline he had within himself and didn’t eat anything that day and from that point on stayed on a healthy, consistent diet and exercise program and turned his whole life around. Still today, he goes “cold turkey” on T-day to honor the self-discipline he called into action on that one Thanksgiving years ago. Hey, ok, not so creative, but work with me here…I’m trying to help.
Here are couple great Thanksgiving sites. Print a couple stories out and read them with the family, especially your kids or nephews, nieces, grandkids, etc. American history stories are the best. All you fathers out there. Step up in your life. Be the leader. Show that you deserve that seat at the head of the table. It meant something at one time. Make it so again. Quit fantasizing about it — do it. When the family sits down to the table, tell them to sit back and relax for a minute, that you have a powerful, inspiring story to tell. One of great, magnificent importance. Make it tradition — right now. This Thanksgiving. Don’t put it off anymore. Bury your mind into the story and forget about your delivery. Believe me. Providence will take over and as the years go by, the storytelling you do will be THE highlight of every Thanksgiving from here on out, this year forward.
November 24th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I follow your wisdom, Warrior. While the family was stuffing their faces, I had my tuna, raw oats & isolated L-Arginine. When I saw your diet five years ago, it stuck in my mind that your emphasis was on consistency and commitment every day of your life which thanks to you is what I’ve done for the past five years. No junk ever, no Mcd’s, no restaurants, no candy. And I hit the weights like a Warrior. I’m most thankful a true role model and hero (you) are still there for his diehard Warriors.
November 26th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Warrior, Good to see the site finally up and running. Ref your last blog, last January i got to a point where i was fed up with being unfit and fat. I bought a weights bench and weights. I read up on as much info on nutrition, form and technique. I learned about recovery, proper training routines and supplementation. 3 months ago i had progressed so much that i had to sell the home weights bench and joined a proper gym. I had simply not enough weight left to progress at home. I have become addicted to training now. I have not ever once missed a session. Hand on my heart, since last January i have totally dedicated myself to training, eating properly and resting. I am more in love with it now than ever. I will never miss, injury permitting. It takes serious commitment and dedication. When your mind tells you to just skip it this week, thats when i dig in and put more weight on the bar. I refuse to stop. And i am seeing results, slowly, but steadily.
My point is, when u talk about dedication its a fact. Without it, u will get no where in life, no matter what area you apply it to. Am i lean and totally fit right now? NO! am i in perfect physical shape? NO! However im alot better now than i was 10 months ago. The more i push, the more i get out of it. Just would to encourage everyone, whatever it is they wish to suceed at, you have to be committed and dedicated to it.
Thanks for the cool site.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:51 am
Great blog! I am working to reclaim my health and get myself back into shape (and I don’t mean “round” as the definition of my ideal shape, either!) It’s a clich that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and my readiness led me to your message. Thanks.
November 30th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
You know what’s brilliant about the blog world? I am leaving a comment right now that will be read by one of my boyhood heroes. This is amazing. How friggin’ cool!
Great blog, great post. Thank you!
-Matt Rupert
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December 18th, 2006 at 12:20 am
Great Post Warrior. It is more important to be mentally fit. To get physically fit you need to be mentally fit first so you can discipline yourself to eat right and exercise and do what needs to be done to get your body where you want it to be. Of course you need to be mentally fit to accomplish any goal in your life including slamming Andre the Giant or whatever you want or need to do.
January 5th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I think we should send word to Warrior Via- Mail or post on his Blogs, I belive there should be another blog something else for us. Or even Perhaps some sort of Quiz or Trivia Section in which we can all take at our leisure however make each question with a time restraint so people cannot cheat their way up. nd re-sbmit earning a percentage who ever with the highest wins something… or turn it into a points thing a game of sorts and the winner at the end of every month or 6 months or whatever a type of Memior. ought to be sent out… just a suggestion i will be posting this on every blog…LOL.. Ideas responded are welcome
February 21st, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Ok to hunt elk ,hell they taste great. I’d like to talk about the Meaning of Life which is Prosperity and Serenity,the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference. If you do’nt have God plain and simply you are bitter and confused about everything. Some things your Pastor or Revern might say should go in one ear and out the other.Don’t blame god cuz he’s a moron its probly how he was raised. What is poor? Being poor to me is symply being with out food or shelter. Its not about never owning your own house or having enough credit to buy a new car, everbody gets that confused to make themselves sound better. Most people can find a relief in being in the modern income bracket, thats why you won’t find prosperity in being rich ,everbody gets that confused as well. You definatly likely to find it being poor ,unless your just a self’loathing ignorant jerk in the eyes of the lord. Most time we (Family and I) always had shelter ,many,many shelters and many p.o.s cars but the only thing we could never keep up on was food,which useually included bout one good meal a week. If you didn’t eat at school most the time you didn’t eat. Food became not so important as a good movie at time ,hell we were use to being hungry all the time,so who cares. A lady at my church said ,we should at some time take a trip to Niger or some place in Africa to see how they live so you wouldn’t think of yourselfs being so poor. Well here is some news for ya, if you can fly way the hell over to Africa ,you are definatly not even close to being poor! !!