I'm sure a lot of you lovely people have had a similar experience.
My entire life, I was told at every life event, I was going to get fat.
"Just wait until you get out of highschool and stop doing year round sports, you'll go to college and get fat. Freshman 15."
Nope.
"Later, in college when it starts getting harder and stressful you'll put on weight."
Still nope.
"Now that you've graduated, when you get a real job and real stress you'll start to put on pounds."
Got a "real" job. Still not fat.
"Once you start a family and don't have time to workout, that's when it'll hit ya."
My kids 7.
"Now that you're over the hill, your metabolism is going to crash and there's no avoiding it."
Still got the same measurements as I did in college.
"Oh, well, erm... you're just one of the lucky ones."
What? No. This is not by chance. It's not juneticks, nor metabolism, and definitely not luck.
Point to flat toned stomach, greying body hair and all.
This was not an accident. My wife and I earned the bodies we have. It's your own fat faults you let yourselves use every excuse to join the subspecies. Take some goddamned responsibility.
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[–] totalitarianism 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Haha oh man, this almost could have been written by me! I had a very similar upbringing. My father is a Marine and always stressed personal responsibility and independence for my sibling and I. We had a house up in northern Michigan which is pretty isolated from the rest of society, and we were very self-sufficient. Our mother grew our produce in her garden, my father hunted, and my sibling and I helped with other chores such as chopping and moving firewood and caring for the property. If we wanted something, such as a new game (my sibling is very into xbox and everything), it meant doing chores to get it. It was a lot of work but the trade off was that we had a lot of freedoms because we EARNED them. Now the two of us are demonstrably successful adults. My sibling is a research zoologist and I'm an artist (yes, that profession that everyone thinks you can't survive on). The point is that we learned that life is a HUSTLE, if you want something you have to GO OUT AND GET IT. No one can get it for you. You are in control of your destiny. There will be monumental challenges thrown at you but you and only you can overcome them. Very good life lessons!
[–] Speshul_Sn0wflake ago
I wish more people were raised like this, seriously I do. Sounds like your parents did it right as well.