Thanks!

Mike on May 13th 2010

Thanks for the all the encouraging words I’ve received since launching the site yesterday!

So far the program really hasn’t been too difficult, except for the physical agony the first couple of weeks of weight training (I think I now know what the 7th Level of Hell must be like). It also helps greatly that my trainer at Stroud’s Fitness, Tim Freeman, is totally encouraging. That makes a huge difference.

I have the mindset of being in it for life rather than simply, “do this to lose weight and then I’m done.” That has helped me avoid being overly stressed about it. I’m viewing it as just the way I live now. I hated it at first, then I greatly disliked it, and now I just mildly dislike it. I expect that eventually I’ll go through something akin to Stockholm syndrome and then I’ll start to love it. Then I’ll be one of those twisted people you meet now and then who actually thinks exercise and weightlifting is fun. God help me.

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