Comments on: I’m Too Fat http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2011/03/09/im-too-fat/ Inspiring Ordinary Families To Live Extraordinary Lives Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Meagan Frank http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2011/03/09/im-too-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Meagan Frank Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:28:00 +0000 http://thepassionatewarrior.com/?p=1928#comment-641 Good job, Hugh, and good luck! It is not easy to change habits and lifestyles. It is so huge that you and your wife are in it together. Hopefully you can continue to motivate each other while remaining accountable. I laughed out loud at your desription of the gadgets, and I love that your kids try to use perfect pushup as an electronic paddle. Best of luck to you! MMF Good job, Hugh, and good luck! It is not easy to change habits and lifestyles. It is so huge that you and your wife are in it together. Hopefully you can continue to motivate each other while remaining accountable. I laughed out loud at your desription of the gadgets, and I love that your kids try to use perfect pushup as an electronic paddle.

Best of luck to you!
MMF

]]> By: Vesna http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2011/03/09/im-too-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Vesna Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:33:00 +0000 http://thepassionatewarrior.com/?p=1928#comment-640 Hugh!! I have a personal training certification and we've made some radical diet changes over the last 3 years. The major thing we wanted to cut was processed foods. This restriction pretty much kills anything that is bad for you lol. We're leaning as much as we can towards a raw diet (fruits, veggies, sprouting, dehydrating, etc. without cooking and killing the great stuff that's in all of these). While we were in California, it was wonderful and easy to maintain (even though we couldn't bring the dehydrator and sprouter with us in the pop up trailer). But now since we've been moving south east through these states, it has becoming shockingly apparent why everyone is so sick and overweight. A few things that have shocked us are a severe lack of fresh and organic whole foods - boxed, processing and fried are dominant here (we're currently in Galveston Texas). You actually have to TRY HARD to find anything of nutritional value thanks to big corporate 'phood' companies. The other shockers were the fast food joints (very lacking in California in comparison) and most shocking of all - the electric carts in supermarkets and stores like walmart, etc. I've only ever seen one or two carts sitting empty in our stores back home. That's about the extent of the 'fleet' any of the stores carry (if any at all), but here....omg?? ROWS of them! I'm blown away. It saddens me what these money greedy industries have done to humans. I cannot believe people who run these companies can sleep at night knowing they are killing whole families. This is worse (in my opinion) than working for tobacco companies. Anyway, my rant can go on, but I won't. What I intend to say is - that faced with the fact that it is difficult (at best) to actually find decent food - as supermarkets to do not present nutritious foods in their stores or flyers - it is WONDERFUL that you and your family are doing this. Many kudos!!! One step at a time. The changes do not have to be big. We were making one very small change each week. A teeny tiny change each week. I cannot tell you how HUGE the changes are now 3 years down the road....and they weren't noticeable at all. Absolute baby steps. And if we can do it (very addiction prone), I know anyone can. Congratulations on your loss (and road to health!) so far!! Keep up the amazing work - and always remember....this is to extend your moments of happiness for yourself, your children, and your grandchildren. Even IF by some remote possibility, it does not extend it (very doubtful), it will *enhance* every second of every day you live to it's absolute fullest. Hugh!! I have a personal training certification and we’ve made some radical diet changes over the last 3 years. The major thing we wanted to cut was processed foods. This restriction pretty much kills anything that is bad for you lol. We’re leaning as much as we can towards a raw diet (fruits, veggies, sprouting, dehydrating, etc. without cooking and killing the great stuff that’s in all of these). While we were in California, it was wonderful and easy to maintain (even though we couldn’t bring the dehydrator and sprouter with us in the pop up trailer). But now since we’ve been moving south east through these states, it has becoming shockingly apparent why everyone is so sick and overweight. A few things that have shocked us are a severe lack of fresh and organic whole foods – boxed, processing and fried are dominant here (we’re currently in Galveston Texas). You actually have to TRY HARD to find anything of nutritional value thanks to big corporate ‘phood’ companies. The other shockers were the fast food joints (very lacking in California in comparison) and most shocking of all – the electric carts in supermarkets and stores like walmart, etc. I’ve only ever seen one or two carts sitting empty in our stores back home. That’s about the extent of the ‘fleet’ any of the stores carry (if any at all), but here….omg?? ROWS of them! I’m blown away. It saddens me what these money greedy industries have done to humans. I cannot believe people who run these companies can sleep at night knowing they are killing whole families. This is worse (in my opinion) than working for tobacco companies.

Anyway, my rant can go on, but I won’t. What I intend to say is – that faced with the fact that it is difficult (at best) to actually find decent food – as supermarkets to do not present nutritious foods in their stores or flyers – it is WONDERFUL that you and your family are doing this. Many kudos!!! One step at a time. The changes do not have to be big. We were making one very small change each week. A teeny tiny change each week. I cannot tell you how HUGE the changes are now 3 years down the road….and they weren’t noticeable at all. Absolute baby steps. And if we can do it (very addiction prone), I know anyone can.

Congratulations on your loss (and road to health!) so far!! Keep up the amazing work – and always remember….this is to extend your moments of happiness for yourself, your children, and your grandchildren. Even IF by some remote possibility, it does not extend it (very doubtful), it will *enhance* every second of every day you live to it’s absolute fullest.

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