Chicken, Tuna and Front Squats

I cannot count how many times I have been asked by friends, family or random strangers, “how did you lose the weight?”  (Usually referring to my massive weight loss of over 200lbs during my undergraduate years)

I will admit, at first this was always taken as a compliment and I would go on and on about the hours destroying myself in the gym, the strict dieting and supplementation I was doing… boring stuff, but nonetheless 

I would just ramble on thinking, hey maybe this person will get some good out of what I am talking about.

It didn’t take long for me to realize that these questions were more self-serving than anything else.  No one listened, no one really cared and of course no one changed.

Soon my answer became the same every time, quick and to the point…

Chicken, tuna and front squats.

This of course would illicit some type of odd looking reaction, confusion across the face of some poor soul expecting to get some lavish story they could pretend to listen too just to make themselves look and feel better for having done so.  …”WHAT?”

As if they didn't hear me… ha!

I would repeat myself with this little rant, usually ending the conversation and returning me to whatever it was keeping me occupied at the time.

Chicken, tuna and front squats.  I hate chicken, tuna and front squats, yet I am constantly eating baked or canned chicken, tuna straight out of the can and doing front squats until I puke!  You want to know how you lose weight, get stronger and look better.  Take the foods / exercises / life choices you don’t like, you know the ones, the choice to not go bar hoping, to put down you sixth hot dog or the do some deadlifts, and here is the kicker…  DO THEM!

And don’t do them for a week or two, do them like your new life is directly related to how many of these you do.

That is how I changed, that is how I am changing and that is how I live…

Much happier now…