That shirt in the back of your closet

286... 58lbs lost.... blah blah blah, I had this big stall now i'm like eh 2lbs above where i'd hoped to be a couple weeks ago.

These are the times when most people get frustrated and start making it worse and so on, what i've been talking about all along.  each step along the way find things that are already better, realize that even if you never gain anymore ground ever, THIS is better, way better than where you started and not losing the ground you've already made needs to become a much much higher priority than gaining more ground.

We fail to do that, we get competitive and we get frustrated and then we quit.

So this shirt in the back of the closet, my wife got it for me many years ago when we were losing weight, i've told her probably 17 too many times about this world class restaurant hidden in the woods with a potholed muddy parking lot in the small town i grew up in.

I've been a few places, both coasts, japan, china.  lived in wine country for a decade, so i'm no stranger to really fantastic eats of all kinds, but to this day, The Double Musky is hands down the best food on earth.  kind of ironic that when she hunted them down and hounded for a t-shirt to give me a memento of a place that makes the finest richest eye-rolly-est good food on the planet that the biggest shirt they had was an XL.  As i was a XXXL-tall there was no way this was ever going to be anything but a wall hanging.  but as i stand here before you, though the poor thing is giving all she's got cap'n this tiny shirt fits ON my body, holy hell! now i've got another motivation, one day i'm gonna eat those amazeballs scallops with creme
sauce and french pastry thingers comfortably in this shirt, maybe even in a booth!

Or maybe i need to step out a bit and try some of this epic holy jeysus to the left here, hell most of that looks like 'diet' food even and i'm sure that sauce would send my eyes back in my head.

see you dont have to hate food, you dont have to turn it 100% into its just fuel, stop your love affair with it, really think more like a chef, long and plan for these great experiences, every night if you have the means, once in awhile if you don't but with some simple choices, even this mouth watering  blessed holy thing on a plate is still a part of getting your body to where it does everything you want it to do not just a reward at the end of a long journey. Living is a daily thing, its not about 'not dying' or living as long as you can its about LIVING, racking up one experience after another that was worth having even the bad ones are worth telling stories about but that safe life lived inside that bubble made of other peoples expectations, thats a fate worse than death. be the savory sauce covered steak you are looking for in the world!

Happy Living!!!