FoolsFitness: Hope & Change (guest post).

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I, Foolsfitness, have spoken to the owner of this blog about posting an *Important Public Service Message* and she fell for it… I mean is now letting me guest post on her blog… I would like to speak to you today about “Hope and Change”

Sure some big elections are over, but some are coming up and Foolsfitness feels that we should let our views be made known and publicly for the record.

WE NEED CHANGE: We at Foolsfitness think change is very important. We love change… especially the big coins. If you are looking for change we encourage you to visit a bank. They usually have lots of change. Personally we love Morgan Silver Dollars, but those are in coin shops.

DON’T SAVE THE WHALES: It’s simple. Don’t save the whales. Where would you put them? Trust us when we say they are huge. Just leave them in the oceans where they belong.If you want to save something collect stamps, baseball cards, or coins… those are way more manageable.

WE ARE AGAINST ILLEGAL ALIENS!: You can’t trust them, those little green aliens make crop circles, abduct cows and small town folk too. We’ve seen those Alien Martian movies… nothing good ever comes of them.

WE KNOW NO HOPE. But we are not against her. Hope may be a fine woman, but we‘ve just never met her.

If Hope is single we may even ask her out to lunch.

Politicians are so good at speaking about things for hours without saying much.

“Hope and Change” have become buzz words that seem to have lost their meaning. Don’t play politics with yourself too! Like politicians it’s so easy to tell yourself what’s easy to hear. Something vague and nice sounding.

Get to the root of *WHY* you are hoping and what *exactly* you’re hoping for. But it can’t end there. If you really want to change… write down the specifics, stick it on your fridge, and read it before you eat.

Become obsessed with that hope and turn it into change.

Now that I have decided my hope is to become more physically healthy I log my food, count my calories, and I even have an old pair of shorts on my bathroom door I try on before I allow myself to eat something out of my plan.

Sometimes I fail but I do *have* a plan.

Foolsfitness is never going to make it as a politician (Not a 5 minute fitness machine salesman, pill pusher, or fad diet pseudo guru either) because he’ll tell you beyond the fluff… there is no magic pill or 5 minute workout machine. If there were we’d *all* be models.

It’s hard, it takes work.

You’ve got to really want it beyond wanting the extra candy bar. I (Foolsfitness- Alan) struggle with it… You’ve got to get more hungry for change. I hope I’m really hungry for change too.

Enough to vote for myself.

Come to think of it, don’t vote for me… vote for yourself.

I humbly invite you to come and see my blog.

Maybe foolsfitness can help you burn off a few calories with a laugh.

Maybe you might let me borrow a bit of willpower to fend of the Chinese Food Buffet sometime.

If we are both trying to head in the same general direction, maybe we can spend some of the journey together.

I thank MizFit for sharing a little bit of her own hope and change with me!

In the Foolsfitness nation we have buffet lines in the voting booths. -Alan

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Comments

  1. I like!

    We talked about something similar to this in my Rhetorics of Identity class last week: words are so often tossed around (in the media: “sustainability”, “development”) but we never really think about their actual MEANING. It’s the same with health. We talk about hope, change, being at risk of disease, having issues; we say we don’t have time or we *can’t* do something, but whats the real reasons behind it all, what’s the real definitions of these vague phrases?

    Trotting on over to check out your blog now.

    Also I am up waaaaaaay too early this morning.

  3. YOU ARE RIGHT! It ain’t easy to lose weight & get fit. Yes, the principles are easy – eat better or less if you are eating way too much, move more, hard work, consistency… yada, yada, yada! I have been at this a long time & it still is hard work! BUT, the payoff is great! Health!

  4. Ok you’er HILARIOUS! I’m on the same journey, even during maintenance I will stay on the same journey fending off the buffet and the butterfingers as they come at me, I wouldn’t have survived the attacks had it not been fellow bloggers! The “Change” cracked me up by the way.

  6. I get what you’re saying…excellent!
    Something to think about on this rainy filled, dreary day on the west coast of Vancouver Island!!
    I’m heading over to check out the website. I’ve got the “skinny” down just not the “fitness” and “self-control” at the restaurants!!

  7. So frequently in my life (I’m even going through a bit of it now) where I hoped for something, but dang if I didn’t did everything I could to subconsciously prevent it. Thanks for the reminder to take control of our own destiny.

  8. A good laugh and a great (and *meaningful*) message: wonderful way to start the day! Thanks, Foolsfitness! (And to MizFit for hosting)!

  10. I wanted again to thank Mizfit again for asking me to be a guest writer.

    Also I would like to thank everyone who posted comments (and those coming over to view my blog too)

    I do tend to poke fun at things, but I am serious too. I’m trying to grasp *A REAL* “hope and change” and ask fellow blog folk to walk along with me, maybe drag me a long sometimes too, and just possibly I might give you a smile sometime when you are struggling too.

    I’d like for us to be in this together… the candy bars tend to gang up on me at times and I need to know someone has got my back in those dark alleys of the convience stores!!!

    At Foolsfitness we hope to do some aerobic cross training in hope and change- Alan

  15. Great message and I love how it is conveyed in a funny yet *clear* way.

    Im off to check out FoolsFitness!

  18. Glad to see more male voices here lately.
    I will head your way Foolsfitness but I, too, love chinese food so I am little help there!

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