Well, most of us worry about losing weight or simply maintaining or current weight. We want to look good in clothes, and swimsuits, and continue our good health. As we do the various exercises and diets to accomplish the goal of holding onto “eternal youth” we are confronted by distractors like families, jobs, education, church, friendships etc. The effort is overwhelming if not downright futile. I submit that all this makes the case for “focus” on “selected” goals to be all important. We cannot do it all so we have to choose a goal that will have the broadest impact on our lives. In other words, the selected goal must have impacts at multiple levels.
Try finding time in your busy schedule. I would try to find 30 minutes that can be given to exercise of some sort. Walking, running, bicycling, weight lifting, aerobics, racketball are all examples.
Find some help with your diet. Sign up with Weight Watchers or Medifast or some such program if you cannot be disciplined enough to do a correct diet yourself.
Align yourself with others who are going in the same direction. Join a support group of some sort. Invite a good friend to do the project to lose weight together.
Make sure you define your goal precisely. Write it down. Place it in a prominent place as a constant reminder. At same time, determine the “WHY” to what you are doing. This may be the most important step.
If you have any doubt of whether your health is good enough to take on such a rigorous program, then see a physician to establish your health status and to get his blessing to start such a regimen.
Now, these are my thoughts and I believe they are universal. Many other things could and probably should be addressed further but this is a basic set of criteria to get started. I hope these help.
Regarding my bodybuilding. I am under the watchful eye of my Coach who has placed me on a track to move my weight up to 198 lbs. Today, I was so proud to text Coach to report that my weight today is 189.2 lbs. He texted back, “Awesome” !!!!!. I will be meeting with him tomorrow at 3:00 PM in his gym in South Jordan, Utah. He will weigh me, do my body fat percentage, calculate my lean body mass, the actual number of pounds of fat I am carrying. I am pounding down the food and training hard each morning between 5:00 AM and 5:45 AM to start. I finish around 07:00 AM and 7:30 AM. I am going to win!
My weight increase requirement is much different from yours. However, I follow a plan to get me where I need to go. I can’t emphasize enough that a plan is the backbone of your effort to lose weight or, in my case to gain weight.
Please remember that this is our time! Set your goals and begin. Do not look back. Never take your eyes off the prize that you set for yourself. Become that legend in your own mind that you see all the time. Like I say to my wife, “Now that you are good, let’s push on to GREATNESS!!
The Quest Continues for all of us!
Douglas E. Graham
Six Pack and Senior 