Improper training – Both self-imposed or under the guise of your trainer can sometimes derail your progress. Excise him now by chanting, “The power of being lean compels you!”ġ. What follows is my top 10 list of varying behaviors that have given the Fat Demon the message that it is indeed okay to inhabit your body. Believe me, I know how good a Krispy Kreme, (or 5), tastes, but nothing feels better than actually fitting into shorts and a fitted T-shirt at Armani Exchange and having the attention of the entire store and not just because one has platinum card status.

This fact is reinforced every time I log into my Facebook account and I see faces from yesteryear, some now barely recognizable due to sheer volume. All this work and little to no results! I recently read that more than 67% of Americans are considered overweight this is downright tragic and preventable. More protein shakes, supplements and fuel to sponsor Marty McFly’s Delorean from 1955 to 1985 and a trip every year to 2085. Enough skinless chicken breasts to wake up with wings that can't fly. My wish for each and every one of you is that when summer arrives, you are as ready as a pale-stricken would be attorney on the day of the bar that has served hard time in the library for 6 months to a year of prep.īut what exactly ales ye? All that endless cardio that would amount to Frodo and Bilbo making three pilgrimages up Mount Mordor in destroying the accursed ring. There are few things that feel as good as a rebirth, believe it! Aside from the lack of condiments for the last 3 days of prep, natural diuretic for drying out, (my Home Depot trip is still a blur), and applying Hot Stuff to bring about vascularity and an insane beach pump, that day was an important one, for not only what was captured in front of the camera, but inside my heart as well.

The lines came in fast and furious, so much so that I thought a photo-shoot was in order.

A good 10 weeks of clean eating and hardcore training brought back into my life and physique, more cuts than any Saw movie could dare show in a darkened theater. Ripped off, that yet again you spend your summer covered up.Īs I shared with you, my loyal readers, last newsletter, (see issue #35 Dietary Smackdown!), nothing motivates one more to get back into shape than a breakup. In reality, ripped off would be the more appropriate axiom. As ripped as Precious at a Hometown Buffet.

You’re about as ripped as Chunk, circa 1985, from The Goonies. Yes, YOU! Right before New Year’s rolled around, we as a collective, were at our heaviest weight and promised ourselves, and anyone within earshot or text message, that in 2011 it was indeed on! (Or off, the fat, that is.)Īnd right on cue, come every Summer, like a youth preparing for a test via cramming, once again, the weather is right and you are not. It’s Summer, 2011, (at least here in beautiful Los Angeles), and you’ve failed yet again.

Ripped Pages by M. Hollis