Losing weight is easy (sort of).

Seems like these days people are crazy about losing weight, mostly because this whole "obesity epidemic." There are these fancy programs out there that are supposed to make you "lean and sexy," but in reality they are incredibly gimmicky and ineffective. So how do you lose weight? Easy, stop thinking about it.

You can waste all your time and energy trying to figure out a way to lose weight, but in the end if you don't take action, nothing will change. How do you take charge and make a change? Simple.

Start small and build yourself up.

It does not matter what you do, so long as you're doing it. As CT Fletcher once said:

"It's still yo mother fucking set."

Even if you do not plan on being as big as CT Fletcher, his advice still stands.

When I started out weight lifting I had barely any weight, and even less money, so I did what any other industrious American does and I improvised. Instead of spending $120 on a barbell set from Wal-Mart, I opted for the $20 40 lbs bar bell set and used those weights on a $12 curling bar I picked up from Play it Again Sports.

In between my sets of weight lifting I was also doing a lot of shadow boxing, and occasionally did some sprinting. When I started I lifting I was about 245 lbs, and after six months I got myself down to about 232 lbs and then shot back up to 240 lbs because I was stress eating.

See the key is consistency. If you start small, build yourself up, and keep at it, somehow in the middle of it all manage to not undo all of your hard work by binge eating fatty foods, then you can rather easily lose weight.

So what changed for me? I found inspiration, and a martial art I really like called "Mauy Thai."

At the time I was also playing a lot of Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City (before I lost all my games on my steam account I had like a combined 800 hours in each game) and began think, "Man Batman sure is awesome, I want to be just like him," so I picked up some weights and started using them. 

Back in August a friend of mine invited me to do a 30 day trail with a mixed martial arts gym in Jensen called "America's Top Team," and I decided to do it because I figured after all I did by myself that it would be pretty easy. It was not. 

My expectations were quickly  shattered when I found out the hardest thing about fighting is keeping your arms up, oh that and coordination (I have none). I showed up about every other day during that month and actually began to see results towards the end, and even managed to pay for a class after my trail had expired, only to have to drop it because of a family crisis.

I spent the next month and a half in Georgia taking care of my elderly grand father only to move him back down to Florida at the end of October. Since then I have been on a bit of a roller coaster of frustration and stress eating. I only recently got myself back in the habit of regularly lifting weight again two weeks ago. I also started something new: Upside down elbow knee crunches, which are actually kind of fun to do.

Where am I going with all of this? What am I trying to say? It's easy to lose weight, you just have to stop coming up with bull shit excuses to not exercise and just do it. Simple. No magic bullet, no gimmicky bull shit. You know what "Kung Fu," mean? It loosely translates to "Hard work," so even if you start doing something that is really basic and kind of stupid, if you keep at it you'll end up being kind of awesome at.

Keep at it you lazy bastards, and don't give up.