My wife and I were at a family reunion and one of my elderly aunts, (she's ninety years old and looks great), saw me from the distance. I walked up to her to say hello and the first thing that came out of her mouth was, "Brian, your fat". Well I was left for a loss for words; I mean what you say to someone who has just announced to you and anyone who is standing nearby, that you're fat. I just said thank you and walked away. My wife felt bad for me, but you know what...she was right.
I am about forty to forty-five pounds overweight and that puts me in the obese category. Obese...me. I never thought that I would be saying that. I'm 5 foot eight inches tall and weigh about 210 pounds. That makes me obese. Take the test for yourself.
It is especially surprising to me because I have always been athletic and played sports. I would train and discipline myself so that I could compete at the level I wanted too.
When my aunt said that she was shooting an arrow right in my heart, but it was something that I needed to hear. She woke me up to see the truth as to what I had become.
I don't know how many of you watch the TV series, "The Biggest Loser", but the past series had Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Rulon Gardner on it.
In the year 2000, Rulon Gardner won the Olympic gold medal as a 286-pound class wrestler. Over ten years later, he weighs in at 474 pounds. That's almost a 200 pound weight gain. When I saw him on the program, I didn't even recognize him.
How do you go from Olympic gold medal winner, a star and the talk of the town, to weighing in at almost 500 pounds. The same way I put on my weight and the same way you put on yours. We eat to much and don't get of off our derriere enough to exercise some of those calories away.
A few years back, my wife started a diet called the "Prism Diet". With it she lost about 45 pounds and I lost about 15, just eating what she put in front of me. It worked great but it was a lot of work.
You had to measure and weigh everything, and you had to buy certain vegetables, and it was a major effort to get dinner on the table. That was too much work for me.
Whether you want to admit it or not, food, weight gain, looking and feeling good, are very emotional things to all of us. Some more than others, but it touches all of us right in the emotional heart.
Rulon Gardner, after his first weigh in on "The Biggest Loser", gave a very emotional and apologetic statement to everyone. He said, "Being an athlete and winning the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling to... World Champion... to Olympic Bronze medal to... to this... is a shame, its tragedy. It's horrifying for me and my family." That's touching the emotions.
My wife, after losing all that weight, saw her mom die of pancreatic cancer. It was a long and slow process that took a lot out of her, and because she has said herself, "I am an emotional eater", she gained it all back and more.
We have found something that is working for thousands of other people, and we are going to get on it and have it work for us. It's called, "The 90 Day Challenge".
This is the first of a series of articles, about our walk through "The 90 Day Challenge", that I will be writing. Follow this series and see pictures and weigh-ins to see how much and how we do with our challenge.
This is going to be challenging and fun and I am excited about doing this with my wife, a few of our friends and family members as well.
What do you have to lose but some weight, but think about what you will gain?
Here's to your health.
After thirty five successful years at Ford Motor Company, Brian Gosur has a new career as an entrepreneur, network marketer, and internet marketing coach. To learn more about him, visit his website at; http://healthhopeandhappiness.com/
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