I’ll admit it, I never exercised much as a kid. TV and video games were too easy. The net result was that as I got older, I got fatter. At least my stomach was pretty flabby. I was not a pretty sight. But I brought it on myself. I didn’t even eat healthy while living my couch potato lifestyle.
A couple years after graduating from high school, I ran into an old friend whom I had not seen for years. When he saw me he took one long look and said ‘Bro – you have a beer gut’. That was hard to hear but I knew he was right. I had replaced sitting on the couch with sitting at a desk. Fast food became my usual lunch and all those calories were making me fat. Then my life changed.
Then one evening (yes again on the couch eating bad food) I watch an infomercial that changed my life. The thing about it was that it was promoting an exercise program and it was the transformations of regular people that caught my eye. I mean these people were really getting fit and it seemed like it could be doable for just about anyone. Even a wimp like me had a chance.
My mother watched the infomercial when I told her about it, and wasn’t sure it was for us. She though it looked a little to extreme for the two of us. However the more she watched the more she began to become intrigued, until one day she asked me if I was still interested in going through the program. I told her I was still on board, and we decided to order it.
I should have expected that a program that boasted such big changes would be hard. Boy oh boy it was hard. My mom thought we were nuts for continuing the program after the third day. But she’s a trooper and she hung in there. Fortunately it didn’t take more than a couple of weeks before we could see and measure the results. We were losing weight and visibly toning up. Neither of us expected to work that well.
Of course we also watched what we ate. Half the battle is to eat properly. So gone were all the fast food lunches. But coupled with the intense workouts, our bodies totally changed by the end of the first ninety days. My mom who has had a big problem putting on fat around her middle literally burned it all off. Her back got ripped, her arms toned up. And I can say that for the first time in my life, I’ve got ‘guns’. Big biceps were something I never dreamed would happen. I’m still working on my abs to get that desired 8 pack but I’m well on my way. With eating right and exercising properly I am truly a new man.
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