YOU GOT TO HATE YOUR LIFE

1. You got to hate the life you are living! Mild dissatisfaction, some uncomfortableness isn't going to do it. You have to be to the point of hating your rolls of fat, hating looking like crap, hating being on medication, hating not being able to have fun like your fit friends. Now if you are not hating your life you can get there. All most everyone will be accepting of the state they are in, concentrating on pleasure and ignoring the bad. We are very good at ignoring the bad. START FOCUSING on the bad. Soon you start to hate it. When I was fat and out of shape I would grab a roll of fat curse at it for preventing me from living the life I wanted. 2. Realize change is a process. A long process. I looked at getting in shape as my act of revenge. Revenge on the fat that made me look gross, Revenge on society that judged and excluded me for being fat. Revenge on movies and TV, I’d show them I'm just as good looking as they are. Revenge on the fast food/junk food companies tempting me with crap, I am stronger than them and refuse to be doomed to a crap life no matter what your temptations are. 3. Refuse to give up. Be a boxer, you only lose when you don't get back up after being knocked down. I failed and binged or quit for a while. But I realized I can't win by quitting. Only by putting one foot in front of another no matter how hard I stumble will I ever get to be where I want to be. 4. Find examples of people who have been where you are and have gotten to where you want to be. LEARN FROM THEM! It will save you lots of heartache and time (may not make it easier) We live in a great country of freedom. Unfortunately we are free to do nothing (spiritually, intellectually, and physically) outside of seeking base pleasures and living a crap life. With all the modern conveniences of delicious fast/junk food, plentiful cars, labor saving devices we have lost the will to seek meaningful improvement to our lives. We satisfy ourselves with base pleasures and never develop as human beings. When others dare to try and rise up and improve themselves many people; often those closest to them; are there to drag them back down. "You don't have time for that" "You'll give up after a while just like always" "I tried it, it was too hard/boring/time consuming/waste of money (implying if they can't do it there is no way you could succeed)" Hate your life; get revenge; live a fantastic life full of effort and accomplishment; a life you will be proud to look back on.