The motivation

The Motivation

It's great that I want to loose weight and eat healthier.  Sure I'd like to not develop heart disease or diabetes down the line and live long enough to see my kids get married.  But those ideas are too ethereal to be goals.  I need more concrete motivators with immediate benefits.  Like:

Fitting in the chair. 

• I broke the adjustable arms on my chair at work because my legs are so big.  It's kind of embarrassing.
• I'm going to a hockey game with my father and my son later thins month.  I don't know if I'll be able to sit in the seat in the arena.
• I can't fit on any good rollercoasters, and the only thing I love more than a rollercoaster is enjoying one next to my wife.
• Flying.  As much as I hate the current state of security at airports, I want to have the choice of sucking it up and sitting in an airplane seat if I want to.

Having more energy

• My kids run circles around me and I never have the energy to even try to keep up.
• I barely have the energy to go to the basement and get another 6-pack to put in the fridge.  How messed up is that!?!
• I shoveled for about half an hour after the last snowstorm we had and I was winded and sore.  I felt pathetic.

Improving personal interactions

• My wife denies it, but somehow I think she'd be more amorous if I wasn't a big blob of fat.
• Sometimes at work, in the back of my mind, I feel like people are judging me because of my weight.  Nobody has ever given me a true indication that they are, and it's probably all just in my head, but if it is,why not remove that doubt.