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		<title>Self Talk: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So where do i begin&#8230;. I want my own divine inspiration. Maybe it is all me. Maybe I just need to work it up. Raise my standards like Tony says. Seems so hard. Is life supposed to be hard? I find myself with more and more questions on the sense of what makes sense. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So where do i begin&#8230;.</p>
<p>I want my own divine inspiration. Maybe it is all me. Maybe I just need to work it up. Raise my standards like <a title="Tony Robbins" href="http://training.tonyrobbins.com/" target="_blank">Tony</a> says.</p>
<p>Seems so hard. Is life supposed to be hard?</p>
<p>I find myself with more and more questions on the sense of what makes sense.</p>
<p>I am nervous because a lot of the christian paradigms are starting to not make since to me anymore. I love God. I want what is right and good. I want a higher purposes. But I am just trying to wade through all the noise that is thrown around and just find some truth. That seems the hardest thing to place sometimes.</p>
<div id="attachment_379" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-379" href="http://fatmanchronicles.com/self-talk-part-1/fatmanchroniclestrappedman-2/"><img class="size-full wp-image-379 " title="FatManChronicles - Trapped Man in Fat Body" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/fatmanchroniclestrappedman1.jpg" alt="" width="571" height="787" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Be who you are.</p></div>
<p>I have responsibilities…. There is a type of guy in my head I want to be. And I feel my apathy getting the better of me. I feel addicted to this apathy. This sluggishness is in my marrow. How do you fight something in your marrow? Condition yourself for easiest effort.</p>
<p>When did it change? When did it change from living life with some <span id="more-377"></span>grit and focus…feeling it in your body…in your being…… changed to being something your saving yourself from the pain and inconvenience it now brings.</p>
<p>When did our inconveniences change? When did living life start to become inconvenient. Who sold us on this idea? No…. really? Who sold us on this idea that it is too hard to be in control. It is too hard to think for ourselves outside of the demands that are placed on us by responsibilities. You might as well be dead. You&#8217;re not living. You&#8217;re not breathing. You&#8217;re not thinking. You&#8217;re not fighting.</p>
<p>We all feel like sleeping beauty…victim of whatever that stops us in our tracks. But some of us get to comfortable. We enjoy sleeping and it is just to bright outside anyway.</p>
<p>You slow down. And you slow down…. and you slow down.</p>
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<p>And you turn off the engine that drives you inside. You turn it off and you rust. Weeds start to grow around you. Things start getting into your life you never wanted to invite in. You have this taste and this desire inside of you still but it&#8217;s too hard to get this ol&#8217; rusty soul cranked up. I have been sittin for a while and maybe next time. Maybe tomorrow.</p>
<p>Maybe sometime, maybe, maybe, sometime, sometime.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;   Then you just stop talking about it all together.</p>


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		<title>Criminals, Fat People and The Fatty Scrape.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know………. i am eating healthy but I still find myself eating with a fatty scrape. You know when you scrape the hell out of the bowl/plate/whatever until you decide your done. You ever do that to yourself? Where you just feel so addicted to food that you&#8217;re leaving no crumbs? If only we can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know………. i am eating healthy but I still find myself eating with a fatty scrape.</p>
<p>You know when you scrape the hell out of the bowl/plate/whatever until you decide your done.</p>
<p>You ever do that to yourself? Where you just feel so addicted to food that you&#8217;re leaving no crumbs?</p>
<div id="attachment_369" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-369" title="FatManChronicles - Chad Curtiss - Keep It Up Whitey" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_1368-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Savor life.</p></div>
<p>If only we can savor all of life like that! That is what I think. This craving, this desire to savor that is designed in us….. we need to not slap ourselves on the hand.</p>
<p>Life isn&#8217;t catholic school with Nun&#8217;s, ruler in hand, ready to attack any attempt of enjoyment. Reward yourself by expanding your palate of pleasures in life.</p>
<p>Oral pleasures don&#8217;t make a satisfied life.<span id="more-367"></span> Remind yourself. What feels better than looking good in your bathing suit on a beautiful soon coming summer day? What feels better than being able to pick your kid up and put him on your shoulders in celebration of the big game win? What feels better than being able to walk down the aisle feeling comfortable in your skin? What feels better than……..? A satisfied life is an active one daring to live.</p>
<div id="attachment_370" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-370" title="FatManChronicles - Savor Life" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0109-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Savor Life.</p></div>
<p>Have you been living life lately? Come back to life. The invitation is there. It always has been.</p>
<p>Smile. Today is your day. Take ownership of it. Enjoy it with a newspaper and OJ  in the morning watching the sunrise crest the landscape. Do something today that you haven&#8217;t made time for. Get out of the house, turn up the music, drive somewhere till you find something worth discovering.</p>
<p>You remember all those desires you have in that heart of yours? Quit living solely off the pleasures of your diet. That isn&#8217;t living. Earn your obituary. Let something more be said of you. Have more to say for yourself. Respond to life instead of reacting with food.</p>
<p>Criminals and Fat People have something in common… you live long enough in your prison you become afraid to leave it&#8217;s safety. But you were never meant for a prison.  You&#8217;re better than this. Don&#8217;t lie to yourself, prisons aren&#8217;t safe there a death sentence. Get out before it takes the life you were meant to live away from you. Your youth had more ambitions! Challenge yourself. Choose to look at life with a more fulfilling lens. Capture your thoughts and choose life.</p>
<p>Put down the fatty scrape.</p>
<p>I know it may be scary, but find who you are again. You can do it. Your life is waiting on you. The skies the limits. That&#8217;s what makes humanity so special.</p>
<p>Download &#8220;Good Life&#8221; by One Republic and turn it up. Now smile and repeat after me.</p>
<p>&#8220;_(your full name)__  ………. Welcome Back!&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking through my site analytics recently and I discovered a guy who found my page by typing in to google &#8220;I&#8217;m a guy and am tempted to cut my fat off.&#8221; I got a chuckle out of it as I think every true fatty has thought this at one time or another. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was looking through my site analytics recently and I discovered a guy who found my page by typing in to google &#8220;I&#8217;m a guy and am tempted to cut my fat off.&#8221;</p>
<p>I got a chuckle out of it as I think every true fatty has thought this at one time or another. I know I have. We would never do it of course but this illustrates the frustration we have with our weight. This angst of desperation building up inside, wanting more out of life.</p>
<div id="attachment_358" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-358" title="FatManChronicles - chad curtiss - cut your fat off" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_1191-225x300.jpg" alt="FatManChronicles - chad curtiss - cut your fat off" width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">DON&quot;T CUT YOUR FAT OFF. Healthy Tip for the day from FMC.</p></div>
<p>Well I want to tell you fatty google guy<span id="more-357"></span> that you are normal. Please don&#8217;t cut off your fat…. we don&#8217;t want you to actually harm yourself…. but I don&#8217;t think you wrote this to actually see if you could. I think you wrote this out of shear frustration from what fattydom is doing to your life. And I say, &#8220;Good!&#8221; We need to get some angst and frustration….. we need to use that feeling for us instead of against us. How do you do that. Sit down and write out why you want to cut your fat off. Take some time for yourself and invest back into your well being. Sit down and write out all the ways that your weight is trapping you from your desires. Write out all the ugly parts that no one sees. Write out how it pisses you off. Get it all out. Now read over it a couple of times until you read it and the whole letter resonates and articulates all of your feelings of fatness and frustration. Now write out all the things that would be different if the weight were gone. How you would feel, think and live. What differences would be your favorite.</p>
<p>Now look at them both side by side. Now realize that all your small choices day to day have led you to one of these papers. And I can probably bet it isn&#8217;t the one you like. So what do you do? Take the sobering moment and use this extreme thought of cutting off your fat for you and not against you. Start cutting off things from your life at the root of the issue. Your daily choices. You must change the way you live. Your career, kids, marriage, etc. is a direct reflection of your choices….. so is your fattydom. Want out of the fatty club? Then you have to choose it daily like an alcoholic chooses to not have a drink daily. Choosing to say no to destructive momentary pleasure for the pleasure of enjoying a full life. It begins with you having some personal responsibility over your choices and where they lead you.</p>
<p>You didn&#8217;t get here because your gut decide to revolt against your body and make you fat. This is a symptom of unhealthy choices. It hard to hear that sometimes so I applaud you if you made it this far.</p>
<div id="attachment_359" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/fatbellyflop.jpg" rel="lightbox[357]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-359" title="fatbellyflop" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/fatbellyflop-300x230.jpg" alt="Fatty at the pool. Thanks for the tshirt" width="300" height="230" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">One thing you know by looking at this guy. It wasn&#39;t genetics. </p></div>
<p>Want to hear the good news? The great thing about this is your not trapped to a life of addiction. As your learn and change your choices you will go from feeling the frustration of an unhealthy life to feeling the numerous rewards of a healthy life including putting the unneeded shears away <img src='http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Look at your list you wish your current choices led you to. Add your dreams and desires in life and start making the small changes daily to get you there.</p>
<p>I was talking with my Exercise Physiologist yesterday about my comprehensive workout plan. I asked him what he would say to those fat people out there wanting to get back in shape… wanting to join a gym…… but they get to the gym and they don&#8217;t know where to start. His advice? Just start something. Instead of cutting off the fat with something sharp cut off the fat with your daily choices. You know that is the only way it is going to happen. You have to decide, fight, sweat, plan, prioritize, follow through, and and and. You know what you need to do to get started&#8230;. and the good news is you don&#8217;t need to know everything to get started. You know enough to get started. No more excuses. Start walking until you figure out what you should do next. Start eating fruits, vegetables, and grilled chicken until you figure out a healthy diet that works for you and your needs. Just Start.</p>
<p>Quit playing dead in life. You want more out of life apparently or you wouldn&#8217;t want to get rid of the hardship that you feel is holding you back. Living starts with choosing to live every day. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow. All you can control is today. So make today count. You may not see the end result today….but today mattered just like your past days mattered to the point that your contemplating grabbing the scissors. Each Day Matters. The affects of today will reflect in your future. Let today be the day you decide to live again.</p>
<p>Now the questions is….. do you want your life back? Grab a pen and some paper and begin reclaiming it back. You can do it. I believe in you.</p>


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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Fatty&#8217;s Take On Perseverance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just keep focusing on your breathing you got this Chad… you can do this. My feet are hurting. God I am out of shape Maybe I should stop for a second. NO! This is part of it. It is hard….. I just need to keep pressing through. I can go for 30 minutes. It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just keep focusing on your breathing</p>
<p>you got this Chad… you can do this.</p>
<p>My feet are hurting.</p>
<p>God I am out of shape</p>
<p>Maybe I should stop for a second.</p>
<p>NO! This is part of it. It is hard….. I just need to keep pressing through.</p>
<p>I can go for 30 minutes.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not going to kill me to keep going for 30 minutes straight… i am sitting down for crying out loud.</p>
<p>Perseverance. A word neglected by us fatty&#8217;s. I was talking to a friend of mine and he asked me how the gym was going. My response… &#8220;I hate cardio…….but I am trying to get over it.&#8221;</p>
<p>He responded, &#8220;Yeah, well anyone who say they like it is full of it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well that makes me feel better. So it&#8217;s not just a fatty thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Dude, It&#8217;s a human thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is part of the human condition to persevere…. I think we forget that our challenges have a breaking point and so we just quit too easily. We justify our quitting.</p>
<p>I was at my gym <a href="http://dekalbmedical.org/ProgramsandServicesWellnessCenter/WellnessCenterMain.aspx">(Dekalb Medical Wellness Center) </a>on the stair stepper and <span id="more-254"></span>I was feeling the burn after 5 minutes much less 30. So I talk to myself. I tell myself, &#8220;No, you are not going to quit… you are going to keep going.&#8221; I want to quit. I want to make excuses. It is like I am in rehab going through the withdrawals of fattydom. But I have to press through the withdrawals. The only way to get healthy is to persevere through, not go back to the drug of apathy and uncontrolled appetite.</p>
<p>The bottom line is… we quit to soon. That is what keeps us where we are… miserable, fat and dying because we don&#8217;t fight for anything anymore. People don&#8217;t fight for their marriages daily. They don&#8217;t fight for their kids when it counts. They fall asleep and sign their life away in debt agreements and they cease to live. They breathe, breed, consume, make excuses, and live far lower than they are capable of and designed for. Wake up, you who sleep. Fight the mediocrity of the day that wants to enslave you. Fight for your marriage. Your family. Your identity. Your goals. Your health. Your convictions. Yourself.</p>
<p>Do whatever you got to do. What do you have to do? Do you have to write it out? Do you need to expose yourself and push yourself out there a bit to get back on track? Then get a blog. They are free. What do you have to do to motivate yourself. Not Motivated? Well check out <a href="http://fatmanchronicles.com/">my blog</a> daily. <img src='http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Check <a href="http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/">Anthony Robbins blog</a>, Check out <a href="http://fatladysingn.com/">fatladySingN&#8217;s blog</a>. Check out <a href="http://stevepavlina.com/">Steve Pavlina&#8217;s  Blog</a>. Don&#8217;t know what to eat? Sit with a Nutritionist. Can&#8217;t afford a nutritionist? <a href="http://dekalbmedical.org/ProgramsandServicesWellnessCenter/WellnessCenterMain.aspx">Dekalb Medical Wellness Center</a> has a service where a Nutritionist will go shopping with you called a <a href="http://dekalbmedical.org/ProgramsandServicesWellnessCenter/IndividualizedServices.aspx">Grocery Store Tour</a>. It cost $40. Can&#8217;t afford that? Then go back and check where you are actually spending your money….. because your poor eating habits always found a way to get paid for. Resources abound. Make no mistake there will be an outcome… your choices lead to your outcome. So look around…. what choices got you there?</p>
<p>&#8220;But you don&#8217;t understand my story… you don&#8217;t understand my circumstances, you don&#8217;t understand I don&#8217;t have time. You don&#8217;t understand my limitations…they prevent me from…….  You don&#8217;t understand!&#8221;</p>
<p>Ok, get it all out. Write out all those arguments that hinder you from attaining the self progress you actually want deep inside of you. Write them out. Read them over a couple of times and make sure you get them all down on paper. Now hold them up and look at them. This is your legacy. This is how you are choosing to be remembered. Is it starting to bother you at all? Write a new legacy of things you can do versus what you can&#8217;t. Figure it out. You can do it. I believe in you. You are far more capable than anyone realizes. George Bernard Shaw says in the Maxims of Revolutionist, &#8220;The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.&#8221;</p>
<p>Quit finding reasons to stop. Be the unreasonable man.</p>
<div id="attachment_258" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-258" title="FatManChronicles - Pumping Iron - Chad Curtiss" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IMG_1175-225x300.jpg" alt="FatManChronicles - Pumping Iron - Chad Curtiss" width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Fatty Pumping Iron.</p></div>
<p>Find success stories in your local gym. Be the success story in your local gym. Quit making excuses and do whatever you have to do. Quit waiting for the right circumstance. The right circumstance is right now.</p>
<p>What ever the challenge is get some grit and push through. You have grit inside of you. There is no way you got where you are without some grit. It takes grit to earn money and pay bills. It takes grit to have kids. It takes grit to make your own way in the world. You know this. You have done this. Start applying you grit to all areas of your life that are important to you. Not just the ones with a bill.</p>
<p>Perseverance. It has a breaking point.</p>
<p>Breathe Chad. Breathe. Push. Breathe.</p>
<p>Keep Going.</p>
<p>You can do this.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care if you hack up a lung you keep going.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t Stop. I make the decision to keep moving forward.</p>
<p>Press Harder Chad. Pedal harder. Harder. HARDER.</p>
<p>Turn up my music if I have to. Avoid looking at the clock. Focus on the pushing not the countdown Chad. Focus. Push. Press. Harder. Keep Going.</p>
<p>And you just keep going. You make your decisions. You set the bar of what you can and can&#8217;t do.</p>
<p>This morning I got on the step machine for my 30 minutes of cardio. I was tired and feeling the burn and wanting to stop within 30 seconds. Then I made it to 5 minutes. I pushed myself. I coached myself. I told myself…..I kept going and then I made it to 15 minutes. I felt a breakthrough and plowed through to 20 minutes. At 22 minutes the breakthrough was gone but my resolve was stronger. 25 minutes another break through after some tough few minutes. At the 27 minute mark I decided that I was going to not settle for 30 minutes today. I was going to apply my own extra grit. I was going to do 45 minutes. I committed. Pushed myself to 32 minutes. Tired. Sweating. Aching. 35 minutes. Turn up the techno music louder. Pumping as hard as I can. Pushing through the pain 40 minutes. And then the breakthrough at 41 minutes. I was flying for the last 4 minutes pushing myself as hard as I could. I got off the machine at a little over 45 minutes feeling good. Feeling pumped. Feeling fire in my body with adrenaline. I am alert. Clear minded. Breathing. Ready not for the locker room but my upper body workout followed by crunches until I can&#8217;t do crunches any more.</p>
<div id="attachment_257" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-257" title="Chad Curtiss - FatManChronicles - Cardio Step Machine - 45 minutes" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IMG_1174-300x225.jpg" alt="Chad Curtiss - FatManChronicles - Cardio Step Machine - 45 minutes - 5700 steps" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">I earned these numbers.</p></div>
<p>You know what I realized? That 45 minutes I never had before during my day. 45 minutes I slept away. 45 minutes I didn&#8217;t make time for. Over 5700 steps under my belt that I start my day off with. What did you start you day off with?</p>
<p>You can do it.</p>
<p>Perseverance is like a seed. Add it to your vocabulary. Water it with your life. And watch you grow. Today is the day. Today is your day. What are your going to do?</p>


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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am am up and it is 5:30 am. I apologize in advance if this blog comes out a little groggy. Why am I up at 5:30 am… because I am a fatty in need of reform. I used to get up early but haven&#8217;t had to for about 2 years or so. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I am am up and it is 5:30 am. I apologize in advance if this blog comes out a little groggy. Why am I up at 5:30 am… because I am a fatty in need of reform. I used to get up early but haven&#8217;t had to for about 2 years or so.</p>
<p>I will be honest…. I will miss not sleeping in.</p>
<p>But, I will survive. Because our choices dictate where we end up in a lot of routine day-to-day life. So here I am at the butt crack of dawn with pouring rain outside my window trying to muster enough determination to roll out of bed and begin my day new and fresh and with purpose.</p>
<p>You know we all have <span id="more-221"></span>excuses for what we don&#8217;t want to do. Whenever we encounter it we shield ourselves with our excuse. The only problem is we don&#8217;t realize that most people around us see right through our excuses and see it for what it is. People will come to accept the fact of how you make decisions for yourself. They will hear your excuses, watch you live out the excuse for your own reasons, and a lot of time set their value of you based on your personal standard with living with your excuses. <img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-222" title="Chad Curtiss - FatManChronicles - No More Excuses" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IMG_1049-225x300.jpg" alt="Chad Curtiss - FatManChronicles - No More Excuses" width="225" height="300" /></p>
<p>So many people just live out their excuses and settle with it. We tailor our lives around the excuses we make. I settled with it. I lived with excuses for myself and I found it led to areas of my life being unremarkable.</p>
<p>Excuses cost too much. We think we are giving an excuse for one item but we don&#8217;t realize that our decisions define our personal standard. Our choices throughout the day is a direct reflection of our personal standards. Tony Robbins says it well, &#8220;We get what we MUST have.&#8221; If you must have sleep you got to bed earlier. Some people&#8217;s &#8220;MUST&#8221; are out of wack, just look at their finances. We are not fooling anyone. We are not fooling our kids, our boss, our coworkers, etc. Most of them see right through our daily excuses and just accept us for who we choose to be or maybe don&#8217;t accept us. The only problem with that is &#8220;unremarkable&#8221; starts to creep into important relationships that we don&#8217;t want to be filled with &#8220;unremarkable&#8221;. It cost to much in the long run. Your excuses may get a free pass for the item they were intended for but don&#8217;t fool yourself, they are taking their payment in your life and most likely the areas affected most are your relationships and success towards your dreams.</p>
<p>It was easier for me to be ok with areas of unremarkable in my life because when I was single it was about me and no one else. I have always had big desires and dreams for myself but never seemed to fully connect the dots on why my life has added up to important areas remaining unremarkable due to my choices. I had dreams but no personal standard. You can&#8217;t get far with that combination. I was doomed to fail.</p>
<p>But this morning I get up and change my standard and this concept is here to greet me. Welcoming me to a new way of defining my future, by defining my personal standards by the habits, words, thoughts &amp; actions I take on a daily basis. And I am up…… My excuse to stay in bed this morning doesn&#8217;t win today. My future wins. My health wins. My dreams win. I win.</p>


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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So as a fatty you have a decision to make when committing to losing weight and getting your life back. “What is it?“, you ask&#8230;&#8230;..When you’re a fatty crossing over the line of normal life to an aggressive lifestyle you get a little moxy in you to stake a flag in the ground and find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So as a fatty you have a decision to make when committing to losing weight and getting your life back. “What is it?“, you ask&#8230;&#8230;..When you’re a fatty crossing over the line of normal life to an aggressive lifestyle you get a little moxy in you to stake a flag in the ground and find an ”OFFICIAL BEFORE PICTURE” of what you are about to leave behind.</p>
<p>A  normal fat guy posing for a picture normally thinks  of <span id="more-212"></span>trying to get the most slimming, best looking picture of himself taken. But not so with this photo. On the contrary for an “OFFICIAL BEFORE PICTURE“ he trIes to brick it as hard as possible and be as fat and tacky as possible so when he does his reveal it can be the most dramatic difference possible. Purely for dramatic effect.</p>
<p>But how do you do that without getting depressed over how fat you are? You get a sense of humor and realize moving forward means as soon as you take that photo you are moving forward in health from it. You realize the only thing to be depressed over is if you stay there. You allow it to be  motivation that you hang on the wall. A reminder of what you are running from and running towards. So you don’t forget.</p>
<p>I started searching through my own collection of photos to see if there was a photo worthy enough of the title ”The Official Before Picture“. I searched high and low and frustratingly couldn’t find a picture that would work. And then the girlfriend snapped it one day on the way out. I had decided to rock it as tacky as possible that day which explains the outfit&#8230;but what explains the tacky? I don’t know. I think I pulled it off&#8230;what do you think?</p>
<p>So without further ado I present to you my OFFICIAL BEFORE PICTURE.</p>
<div id="attachment_213" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 490px"><img class="size-full wp-image-213 " title="CHAD CURTISS OFFICIAL BEFORE PICTURE" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/photo.jpg" alt="THE OFFICIAL BEFORE PICTURE - CHAD CURTISS" width="480" height="640" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Official Before Picture of Chad Curtiss 02/2010</p></div>


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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When she hit 575 pounds, Tammey Burns tried to commit suicide. The attempt didn’t work, leaving the Missouri woman with no other choice but to finally lose the hundreds of pounds of fat that had robbed her of her life. It took seven years and a journey deep within herself, but today the newest member [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When she hit 575 pounds, Tammey Burns tried to commit suicide. The attempt didn’t work, leaving the Missouri woman with no other choice but to finally lose the hundreds of pounds of fat that had robbed her of her life.</p>
<p>It took seven years and a journey deep within herself, but today the newest member of the Joy Fit Club weighs in at a trim 165 pounds.</p>
<p>Burns showed off her new figure and shared her story with Joy Fit Club founder Joy Bauer and TODAY’s Matt Lauer Monday in New York. To illustrate how much fat she lost, huge buckets filled with 410 pounds of lard were piled on risers on the stage. Next to them stood three TODAY interns — two women and one man who together weigh as much as Burns did before she lost all that weight.</p>
<p>The Joy Fit Club consists of men and women who have lost and kept off 100 pounds or more. All of them have done it by diet and exercise; none by surgery. Burns is the 72nd member of the club — but none of her predecessors has lost as much weight as she has.</p>
<p><strong>A life of limits </strong></p>
<p>“Food was my drug of choice,” the 50-year-old woman told Lauer and Bauer. It took the failed suicide attempt to force her to discover that.</p>
<p>At the time, the list of things Burns couldn’t do was endless. She couldn’t visit friends for fear she’d break any furniture she sat on. Couldn’t get in a car. Couldn’t go to the movies. Couldn’t attend to her own hygiene without help.</p>
<p>She couldn’t pick her foot up high enough<span id="more-200"></span> to climb even one low step, couldn’t take more than two or three steps without gasping for breath. Just standing for more than a couple of minutes caused severe pain in her hips and back.</p>
<p>Even sleeping lying down was a near impossibility.</p>
<p>Burns was going through five liters of oxygen a day. She had hypertension, restrictive lung disease, sleep apnea, respiratory insufficiency, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, venous stasis insufficiency, diabetes. The right side of her enlarged heart was failing.</p>
<p>For years, Burns had tried every fad diet without success. But, she said, the secret to finally taking control of her body and her life came down to “working from within — from the inside out.”<strong><br />
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<p><strong>Walking a long road </strong></p>
<p>It didn’t happen overnight. In the letter Burns sent when she applied for membership in the Joy Fit Club, she recounted how she began losing weight by dieting alone. That took her down to 403 pounds by December 2006.</p>
<p>But she was still finding it very difficult to breathe. Her doctors implanted a tracheotomy tube in her throat and told her that she would have to live with it the rest of her life — unless she lost at least another 120 pounds.</p>
<p>“The trach was my wake-up call, as I did NOT want to have a trach tube sticking out of my throat for the rest of my life,” Burns wrote in her letter. “I knew at this moment it was ‘do or die.’ ”</p>
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<div id="attachment_201" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 308px"><img class="size-full wp-image-201 " title="tammeyburns_fatpants" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/090622-burns-fatpants-530a.standard.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Three TODAY show interns who combined weigh as much as Tammey Burns once did were able to fit into a pair of the pants she once wore. Next to them is stacked 410 pounds of lard — the amount of weight Burns lost.  </p></div>
<p>The Joy Fit Club consists of men and women who have lost and kept off 100 pounds or more. All of them have done it by diet and exercise; none by surgery. Burns is the 72nd member of the club — but none of her predecessors has lost as much weight as she has.</p>
<div id="attachment_202" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 209px"><img class="size-full wp-image-202 " title="tammeyburnswalking" src="http://fatmanchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/090622-burns-blue2-530a.standard.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="298" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tammey Burns, who once could barely take a step, became a competitive race-walker.</p></div>
<p>Burns still takes thyroid medicine, she told Lauer and Bauer, and she remains diabetic, although she controls that without having to take insulin. She is considering surgery to finally remove all the excess skin left over after her weight loss.</p>
<p>“My perspective on life is positive and healthy,” Burns wrote. “God is taking me on an amazing journey to give hope to others.</p>
<p>“I am preparing for my certifications as a personal trainer and wellness coach,” she added. “I am training to be competitive in race-walking events. I cannot imagine returning to my formal dismal state, because life is an amazing adventure &#8230; if you let it be.”</p>
<p>“I don’t even know you, and I’m proud of you,” Lauer said with emotion. He asked</p>
<p>Burns what advice she has for others who have despaired of ever losing massive amounts of weight.</p>
<p>“Quit the fad diets,” Burns replied. “Make it a healthy lifestyle change. Work on your emotional issues, and combine exercise with a healthy lifestyle change.</p>
<p>“And focus on your goals — not the struggle,” she concluded.</p>
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<p>By Mike Celizic<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Curtiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so many of us have these inner battles going on of wanting a better life for ourself but not ever having a better life. Which leads to frustration. Then action for a little while. Then failure and then avoidance until it&#8217;s starts bothering us again. It&#8217;s a vicious cycle. I have grown up with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so many of us have these inner battles going on of wanting a better life for ourself but not ever having a better life. Which leads to frustration. Then action for a little while. Then failure and then avoidance until it&#8217;s starts bothering us again. It&#8217;s a vicious cycle.</p>
<p>I have grown up with hopes and dreams like any other person. I want to be an Author. I want to be a great mind. I want to be a husband. I want to be a father. I want to be financially successful. I want to have a life that makes a difference in the world around me. This list could go on and on.</p>
<p>This list of hopes and dreams…&#8230; it is the accumulation of the memories I look forward to making. And you know what the common element is in all of them? I am thin and healthy. I have a picture in my head of that life…..but in real life….. I am frustrated realizing that I am passing year after year, memory after memory, that I once dreamed accomplishing in a different state than I am.</p>
<p>I have all these fat memories to look back on instead of the thin life fantasy I hoped it would have been as life keeps moving forward regardless if I choose to or not.  The problem is <span id="more-167"></span>I am missing milestones completely and living with regret and unsatisfaction. And the common thread through missed milestones, regret and unsatisfaction? Me, allowing my weight to stop me dead in my tracks until I die in my tracks. If I don&#8217;t do anything I won&#8217;t have anything of value to look back on.</p>
<p>Life can be challenging when your day to day destructive little habits accumulate and dictate your life. Sometimes we just need a pick me up. Sometimes we need a personal trainer for our mind to inspire us back to life again. And that is how I will introduce this next video. Hope you have a great day and recapture who you are again.</p>
<p>New Year, New Life-Don’t be trapped by the calendar. Create the life you want right now. Here’s where to start.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Forget the resolutions that you may or may not have broken already; resolutions are nothing but a wish list of what you want to have happen. Instead resolve to make a real change this year.</p>
<p>Here’s a message to get you on the path to momentum, and true lasting change. (Here’s a hint: It’s about making progress happen in your life.)</p>
<p>Wake up and take action-a New Year and a New Life doesn’t just happen on January 1.</p>
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<p><strong>Reader:</strong></p>
<p>So I just spent over an hour reading your blogs and watching your videos. And I want you to know that I also struggle with weight issues and I am on a journey myself. Ready for some complete honesty???</p>
<p>Here goes&#8230;</p>
<p>I have been thin all of my life until I got pregnant with my first child. I got very ill during pregnancy with Toxemia and was on strict bed-rest for about 5 months and gained over 60 lbs in less than 4 months. After an emergency c-section and a perfect little baby boy I was left very overweight and very out of shape. It took me over two years to recover and lose about 23 lbs only to end up unexpectedly pregnant and very sick again. Put back on all the weight and then some. Another emergency c-section later I am in the worst shape of my life.</p>
<p>I used to be <span id="more-156"></span>a very confident, healthy, active woman. My husband married me as a thin, athletic, attractive girl and I have become an overweight out of shape unmotivated mother of two boys. I usually do not even get out of my pj&#8217;s. My poor husband! I just want him to be attracted to me again.</p>
<p>Another thing that I struggle with is the fact that people treat me different now that I am fat. Men used to talk to me different. Women honestly used to be mean to me simply because I was attractive. They would stare and whisper and talk behind my back. I used to get hit on just about every time I left the house! Man, I could tell you some stories! But now on the fat side of life, it&#8217;s like I am in another universe. I wish I could describe it. It&#8217;s like I am invisible! Men don&#8217;t even notice that I exist and women are friendly to me. I am kind of bitter about it actually because I see how the world really is. And it sucks!!!</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;ll make a deal with you&#8230;.</p>
<p>You pray for my success and I&#8217;ll pray for yours. I know, I know! People say that crap all the time&#8230;&#8221;I&#8217;ll pray for you!&#8221; But I really mean it! So, what do ya say?</p>
<p>Anonymous</p>
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<p><strong>Fat Man:</strong></p>
<p>Hey Anonymous,</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your email!!! I was deeply humbled by your honesty and transparent struggle. I agree that it is a different quality to life on the fat side!</p>
<p>There is such a strong prejudgement associated with it that others just don&#8217;t understand. I personally tried to make up for my obesity with personality. But in the end I feel like &#8220;Who am I kidding….I am just the funny…thoughtful fat guy.&#8221;</p>
<p>I am blessed that I have a beautiful amazing girlfriend…… but it also affects that relationship.  Most of the time it is all great and happy and her love for me doesn&#8217;t see the fatness…. then it creeps up and complicates something and the lens gets pulled back and she sees it and it affects us. I see it in her eyes. It may take a day or may take a week to bring back the lens that looks past it.</p>
<p>I understand your frustration with my own struggle even though yours has it&#8217;s own form that it likes to taunt you with.</p>
<p>My girlfriend sent me a link to an open casting call for a weight loss reality show….. at first I was frustrated but I realized it was out of care for me and our future. So I applied and it went well. I now have two networks talking to me and a bunch of other items going on in the background. But at one point it didn&#8217;t look like anything was going to happen with the TV show and I was right back to dealing with this enormous struggle by myself again that I am &#8220;supposed&#8221; to deal with……… and felt like I was dealing with alone…..again.</p>
<p>That is why I decided to start my blog. I needed help to make it, where I could connect with others in my struggle and we could help one another. Not for fame or fortune but just for help. I needed help and so I went for it. I have come to a realization though through all this and it is……………. screw everybody else in their judgements……. Amazing stories always start with a great challenge. I decided instead of resenting people for their opinions and behavior I would use the opportunity to learn about myself and what the truth of who I am is. People will always have their opinions and see the way they see.</p>
<p>But in the end, I made the decision that my story…… my life….. was going to be a beautiful tale of challenge, redemption, recovery and hopefully making a difference. In the end it will just be me standing before the Lord to account for my life……. and I want him to be moved by more story…….my struggle……..my challenges……..my overcoming….. my ability to learn how his heart thinks and sees through the lens of my life.</p>
<p>Like a great movie you walk out of and can&#8217;t find words for because your moved by the epic tale of a man or woman overcoming against the odds of opinions and circumstances and coming out whole on the other side. I want Him to be moved by my life…… At the end of the day that is what helped me pick myself up and move forward. You&#8217;ve gotta have hope.  Without hope life is meaningless.  Without hope life is meaning less and less.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t let people judging the cover art to the book of your story make you feel less than the amazing tale that you are. The greatest novels looks like any other book without the book cover sleeve….. It is the content inside that makes it so great. People will judge…. but some people will see…. and be inspired….. and your story is what people will remember. So focus on that. Let you define you again.</p>
<p>All that to say….. Thank you for your email. It moved me.</p>
<p>And I will definitely love to partner in prayer for each other&#8217;s success.</p>
<p>With love for your amazing story that is unfolding day by day,</p>
<p>Chad<br />
The Fat Man of FatManChronicles</p>


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