I have nothing against the celebration of Easter, but what I have an issue with is how commercialized it has become. We voluntarily decide to force feed a visit to the dentist eventually to our children, thus dipping into our back pockets even more, and making our children dislike us for making them go to the dentist to take care of that cavity or two that we helped them acquire.
Now, onto my thoughts of the week. With all that has been going on in the world lately, there has been 2 constants that I have found to be tested, tried, and still true. They are the love and support of my immediate family and friends for my daily journeys in my new life, and Nutrex Research. I will attend to the second subject in just a moment. My endearing wife has been tortured on a daily basis by standing by and watching me climb on the scale to see if I have gained or lost any significant amounts of weight. I think that is just about the only thing I’ve become OCD about since my surgery. Well, that and getting my ass into the gym. The poor lady has had to conform her previous life into my new one so as to not have to tax herself with the task of having to make multiple meals. Instead, she just incorporates what I can have into things that she will eat. For instance, she used to shirk at the thought of ground turkey over ground beef. Now, she loves the ground turkey much more than the ground beef.
My friends have been supportive in that they see the changes that I don’t and compliment them quite frequently. Now, they could just be blowing smoke up my ass and trying to make me feel better, but quite honestly, I don’t keep friends like that. I try and surround myself around people who would be brutally honest with me than to keep those around who would lie to me just to prevent me from getting discouraged. Having friends like that help me want to do better each week so that they can see for themselves that I am not wasting their compliments and so that they can know that their personal reinforcements are doing me well.
Now, as for Nutrex Research. A few members of this worldwide organization stick out to me more than the rest. Not to say that they are more important, but their influence(s) are just on a grander scale to me, and me alone. Zack “ King “ Khan, Dave, and Nathalia Melo are the main ones. These three individuals are like a pack of wolves on a weak and dying 3 legged cat. The legged cat is all the obesity and out of shape's in the world. Zack has been such a powerful influence to his followers and fans this past year, that you can definitely tell that he is not working towards a full recovery for himself only, but also for his entire fan base. I think that if I lived in England, I would save up my weight loss in pounds ( not only what I lost, but the pound is the monetary system in England ) just to have the blessed opportunity to get some personal training with him. I think that having a 30 min training session with him would be absolute and priceless. All the suggestions and help that any one person could take away from that would reap that individual with a lifelong of encouragement. So do you Zack, I say thank you to you for your efforts, and I pray that God may bless you with a healthy recovery mate.
Dave @ Nutrex is the leader and admin individual for Nutrex’s fan page on Facebook. He is on that thing Mon-Fri trying to give away free promotional items to its fan base just to give them encouragement to get their asses into the gym and do better for themselves. Yes folks, I said free and give away. If I could have multiple personalities, I would try and get everything I could from him for free. But then again, it does no good if it just sits on the shelf. The products actually have to be used to what their purpose is for. He is the leader of over 15,000 fans and he gives them, or at the least, the devout followers, inspiration and guidance. He is an extremely supportive individual, and I’ve never seen him boast or brag about himself and his accomplishments. Perhaps, we the followers are his accomplishments. But from what I’ve gathered about him from various things he has said, he is a gym rat too. To Dave I say: You sir put the man in Gentleman amongst your peers and followers. I know that you have blessed so many lives, to include mine, with your generosity and I pray that you will be blessed for your efforts and never ending work.
Nathalia is an IFBB Pro Bikini competitor and Fitness Model, and let me tell ya, she has the figure for it. She is inspiring to her fans and to the public. She is constantly doing meet n greets on behalf of Nutrex and handling out samples of their products so that others too may get on the healthy band wagon. She is also a competitor. She was ranked #5 in the top 10 most beautiful women for 2011 by FLEX magazine. I, myself, think that she was robbed by that ranking, but that is just my personal opinion. However, I don’t think I’m alone in this opinion, but obviously my opinion didn’t count in this decision. Such a sad day.
These three individuals, along with a whole team of others, are out there determined to kill the beast of obesity to those that want to kill it. They are the arrowhead that adorns the arrow of health and fitness, and let me tell you folks, that arrow is flying straight and true.
In closing, I want to add that though we all have our issues to face on a daily fight, we each still have something that makes us want to get out of bed daily as well. Whatever that may be, find it, harness it, and use it against the rest of the people who want to beat you down and keep you down in the pits of misery along with them. That is a place losers live, and none of you are losers in my book. If you think you are, come talk to me, and I’ll help get that mentality out of you. Rise and shine above the rest and be recognized amoungst your friends and peers.
