overindulgence

Looks like some of the chill is out of the air and the warmer breeze will begin to flow. With the change of season we all wake up as if we were hibernating bears, look in the mirror, then ‘damn I need to lose weight and fast!’ Funny how we associate our presentation with the removal of winter coats, a big event or vacation.

Configuration management is a lifelong year round journey. Yet we tie it to a social factor. It’s understandable I do it too. The only thing that makes it stick is if you have a medical condition. Well being overweight creates all types of health risks so we should commit to making configuration management our yearlong, lifelong event.

Now, since starting my journey I lost 25 lbs and gained back 5, yay me! I was able to maintain and still enjoy the things I like BUT in small sporadic doses. For quite some time I have been in the passenger seat, just watching, cruising, not doing, procrastinating … As that got older and older (as I), I decided it was time to get back in the driver’s seat. This vehicle needed a proper tune-up and body work. I decided to focus on exercise so that I could develop a taste for it. Yes I said “taste”, the rewards of exercise helped me want to do it, the same way I wanted to eat a boatload of ice cream and french fries (well that only rewarded my guts, ewww). I established a simple routine of 3 times a week 45-60 min… Retained the assistance of a personal trainer and invested in a Nike fuel band for additional motivation… Gotta meet my daily fuel goal! (I have to take it back to the store because it’s not cooperating think I over worked it, yay me again!)… Anyway broken fuel band and I’m still exercising! After only 3 months I’m stronger, see my body reshaping and don’t cringe at the words plank or dead lifts.

Now, I’m heading into a nutritional cleanse program introduced by a friend of mine. I’m so excited about embarking on this new configuration program. I’m not in the habit of adverting what I’m doing. Why? Can’t take the naysayers! You know the ones that say:

You look fine, you don’t need to lose weight

Why are you wasting your money on that stuff

Just another fad… Blah, blah, blah

They act like you haven’t done your research, or they know how you feel when you look in the mirror (clothes on, clothes off two completely different views) or can’t get that outfit because “bulges” are not in style this year. Some need to understand people go into diet programs for support, accountability, competition (yes that’s a motivator have you seen “The Biggest Loser”?), convenience and simplicity. Here eat this, drink that, remove that… Following a program actually deprograms you from many negative eating behaviors. We are creatures of habit if we change our routines slightly it becomes second nature. However, you have to want that change, imitate that change and be committed to that change. Wait! Let me emphasize it’s a challenge like every other and it doesn’t guarantee you will eliminate every bad habit. But just by changing one you will achieve something positive.

To be a strong, happy loser you must grab that negative and make it work for you. So when someone says:

your fat or looking heavy say “thank you for highlighting that glad you cared enough to tell me to my face” (not really but hey throw them off) then modify and rectify if you so desire

your doctor put you on medication for blood pressure or sugar ask your doctor for recommendations to modify your diet, lifestyle changes often result in elimination or reduction of medication; or if your adventurous like me I told my doctor give me 6 months to work on it without medication… So far a drug company has one less client. I may need it one day, just not today!

You don’t need to lose weight say “you’re right I don’t need to but I want to” then think… I’m must be looking good and they are trying to throw a wrench in my spokes.

No journey comes without peaks and valleys, the ones that aren’t a success are the ones you don’t try to embark upon.

Get in your driver’s seat, plug in your goal, follow your CMS (configuration management system), go full speed ahead to a better you!!

I will keep you posted on my success!!!

How did we get to this point of constant overindulgence? We have gone from large to x-large to xx-large to fuck it let’s just SUPER SIZE IT! We never seem to have enough. Our global economies are crumbling. We blame the financial institutions, the government but never the role we played in this debacle. Did the banks tell us to use all of our available credit? Did the bank tell us to buy that car or house we couldn’t afford? Did the government tell us to live beyond our financial means?

Just because credit is extended it is up to us to know our limitations. No one forced you to use it all. The choice was and still ours to make.

Our ancestors contributed to the growth of our world not for us to overindulge but to make our lives easier. Their goal was to bring us comfort so that we didn’t have to work ourselves from the cradle to the grave. The age of retirement increases like the national debt! Look what we have done to ourselves, our indulgences has lead to our inability to control our greed.

When you saw an overweight person it was once associated with genetics or a medical condition. Increasingly it’s now the result of what and how much we eat.

Relationships were once one-to-one now it’s one-to-many. You can barely handle one but what the hell let’s just throw in a couple of side pieces, much like ordering a bucket of chicken… ‘can I get a mixture of mild and spicy, yes I want legs, wings, thighs oh don’t forget the breasts like you did the last time.’… lol

Let’s not ignore the spread of sexual diseases. Over indulgence with multiple partners, under utilization of condoms and other birth control methods. Increasing deaths by AIDS, increasing abortions, increasing infertility, increasing children having children, increasing dependency on the welfare system, increasing taxes to support our increasing (often immoral) indulgences.

WE need to accept OUR part in the state of these affairs. No one is exempted. We overindulged in that which is not truly a necessity for our existence…the wants. We under indulge in…the needs.

We need to be honest; faithful; community minded; pay attention to our family; raise our children as a village; stop allowing the media to represent us as immoral and uneducated; remember the sacrifices of our ancestors; and the list goes on…

“Your body is your temple, your values are your foundation.

They must be aligned to create a solid path for your family… our collective futures.”

BT Express comes to mind on this one, “People know just what they’d like to do, whatever it is, you’ve got it, long as it pleases you. Make it last as long as you can, when you’re through it’s up to you to try it again. Come on and do it, do it, do it til’ you’re satisfied. Whatever it is, do it …”

WOW, who knew we would live these lyrics to the fullest and then some! Where is your point of satisfaction?

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Back in the driver’s seat

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