You Have No Idea What Being Fat is Costing You

April 13, 2010

Special thanks to guest author, Alan Livelsberger for this insightful post!

I have a secret to share with you; I used to carry a few extra pounds with me. Almost fifty, actually. But that’s not the secret. Anyone looking at me could have told you that. You’ll have to keep reading to learn my secret.

Several months ago, I decided to do something about the extra weight. It wasn’t easy and I am certainly not perfect with regard to adherence to my weight loss plan, but I’m halfway to my goal weight. One of the reasons I am so far along is the Warrior Fitness blog and my access to Jon. The blog keeps me motivated and Jon is great for keeping me honest about working out. He’s part of my support system that is so crucial to success and I urge you to make him part of yours.

This brings me to my secret, “Looking thin is cool, but being thin is awesome.” It is a hard feeling to describe, almost like waking up from a drug induced stupor. The best way that I’ve found to describe it is that it’s like when you’re not getting enough sleep. Any parent knows what that is like with a new born in the house. Months of getting up one, two, or three times a night. You’re grumpy, you can’t focus and then . . . you get two great nights of sleep in a row. All of a sudden you notice how you are supposed to function and what you have been missing.

Well that is what losing 20 pounds of fat is like. You have more energy. I used to struggle to finish my Muay Thai class. Now, not only can I finish the class, I can jump rope or lift weights afterward. You can think more clearly. I feel I am retaining more of what I read and also making those connections among seemingly unconnected data pieces. I’ve also noticed that I have more confidence and less aches and pains.

One of the most surprising benefits is that you feel like a winner. You are literally piling up victories. Every time you forgo an unapproved food or get a workout in, you are instilling a culture of winning within yourself. Not a bad thing to have in life, for sure.

Those are some great benefits to dropping a few pounds, and I urge you to examine how you feel each and every day. If you think there is something more to life, there is – go find it.

About the Author

Ever since being inspired by Kung Fu Theatre, Alan has been a martial arts enthusiast. Over the course of 20 years, he has dabbled in Judo, BJJ, and Russian Martial Art. He is currently an Instructor Candidate in ROSS and a Muay Thai practitioner.

Jon

Jon Haas, "The Warrior Coach" has been training in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for more than 25 years and is currently ranked as a Kudan (9th degree black belt) under Jack Hoban Shihan. He has also trained in Okinawan Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Russian Systema, BJJ, Krav Maga, as well as Internal Martial Arts of Yiquan and Aiki.He is a certified Underground Strength Coach-Level 2, a certified Personal Trainer as well as founder of Warrior Fitness Training Systems. In 2008, Jon wrote the book, Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts, and since then has created numerous other online training and coaching programs helping people around the world become the strongest, most capable versions of themselves!