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+title: "I Make Excuses: Eating Well"
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+# I make excuses.
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+For a long time I've made so many excuses for why I can't do X and how hard it would be to do Y, or Z isn't really sustainable so I better not start..
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+I want to share same specific excuses that I've made over the past few years and hopefully by the end of this, help someone who may be doing the same.
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+First of all, making excuses is completely a choice. In the moment, it's easy to identify things that are in the way of your goal or idea. But I recently realized that I'm the one deciding that those things are in the way, and I simply need to decide that nothing is in the way, just do it.
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+Here's a few examples of areas that I've drastically improved in the last few years by ditching the excuses.
+- **Eating well**
+- **Exercising**
+- **Career Growth / Motivation**
+- **Quitting Video Games**
+- **Quitting Porn**
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+Hopefully this helps someone, and if want to reach out, please do..
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+I'll work on write-ups for the rest of the topics if there's interest..
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+## Eating Well
+So I grew up being a wrestler since 1st grade. Obviously that means I grew up knowing how to 'make weight' every week, and eventually year-round when I started to travel a lot to wrestle in the off-season. The extent of my knowledge of what I ate was simply "I can only eat 2 honey-buns today instead of 5 because I have to make weight". I never learned how to lose weight properly or healthily. But I was exercising a lot from practices so I never had a need to. Having wrestled through college and landing my first IT desk job, spending my free time playing video games, I really let myself go. I continued to eat how I always ate growing up, but no longer had any exercise to work it off..
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+Years of this go by, and I no longer have anything resembling an athletic physique, and continuing to make excuses to justify what I ate. "What if I never get a chance to get Ice Cream from DQ again ever in my life?"... I would literally have thoughts like that to justify things that I ate.
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+I try not to think about my past when I used to have something resembling discipline to not eat for 4 days just to make weight. Not that this is healthy, but I at least had the discipline to do 'what needed to be done' to reach the goal. THAT is what I didn't want to acknowledge when it came to my diet.
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+I knew that I had to change. I had tried a bunch of different diets; Atkins, Keto, no sugar, etc... but no matter what I tried I couldn't stick with it. I would eventually 'cheat' on the diet, and then again, and again, until I had phased myself out of taking it seriously and was quickly back to 'lawless eating'.
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+An excuse for why this was so hard was "This is how I've always eaten, and that can't be changed," or "It'll be too hard, and I have too much else going on that I need to focus on.".
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+It was hard at first, but enough was enough for me. Did I want to be a person controlled by my excuses? When would I get tired of daydreaming about what I could look like if only I would eat better?
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+Well that day finally came, and what has been working for me was surprisingly simple, I only needed to stop making excuses, and finally commit to something that works, is sustainable, doesn't have a million rules or 'gotchas', and something that fits my lifestyle. I saw change immediately, after years of **trying / hoping / praying** for change.
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+Change finally came, when I chose it. I chose change over choosing the excuses. It's amazing to me now how easy it really was for me to do this, even though at the time it seemed impossible. I was so stuck
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+YOU CAN CHANGE. YOU CAN DO IT.
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+I can now say "I used to make excuses" and you can too.

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