“I’m Tired of Your Excuses”
Commit to Fit | Week 40
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
The Commit To Fit team is looking for their 2012 winner. I cannot stress what an amazing gift this opportunity is for someone in the Bay Area! So if you or someone you know (who is over 18 and has a BMI greater than 30) is ready to benefit for a year’s worth of personal training and nutrition counseling, make sure you (they) click on the links below. And if you’re a local-to-SF obese person who is making excuses as to why you shouldn’t apply…then you should keep reading.
“The Biggest Loser”
Commit to Fit | Week 39
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
As a fat person, I have been particularly sensitive about how fat people are portrayed in media. For example, I hated that movie “Super Size Me,” that movie about the guy who eats nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days, becomes unhealthy, and then we’re all supposed to think his research is groundbreaking and that he’s actually NOT an idiot. I feel like in that movie the filmmaker creates a strong association between obese people and stupidity, and that basically no one noticed this because the film’s anti-corporate message was Bandwagon Of The Year that year so it overshadowed everything else in the film.
“Earning Every @#$%&! Pound”
Commit to Fit | Week 37/38
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
Announcement: People in my life have asking me tons of questions about my experiences this year with fitness, nutrition and weight loss in general. Everything from what I’m doing, how I’m feeling, my life in the past, my plans for the future, changes, etc. For an upcoming blog, I will be answering any questions you, the readers, might have for me. So if you have questions for me that you’d like me to answer in an upcoming post, please email them to Dave@DIAKADIBody.com.
“The Incredible Shrinking Dave”
Commit to Fit | Week 36
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
I own a ton of costumes because I’ve been writing and performing sketch comedy, doing plays, etc. for the last ten years. So every year at Halloween I usually just pull something out of my closet to wear to local Halloween parties. This year I decided to wear the “professional” Santa suit that I got not even two years ago, for one last time. I say “last time” because it’s simply too big on me now Last year it fit like a glove, but now, it’s embarrassingly large. I felt like it was bad karma to pad it, so I wore it “baggy style” this year. Frankly, I looked a little ridiculous but it didn’t stop people from sitting on my lap and telling me what they wanted for Christmas. Which, let’s be honest, is the whole point in dressing up like Santa.
“Meltdown”
Commit to Fit | Week 35
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
I blame last week’s weight gain, in part, on Halloween candy. There was a ton of it in the office and it was hard to avoid. And this week was going to be worse, because it was the week leading up to Halloween. So I decided to get everyone in my office involved in keeping me away from the candy. I sent the following email to the company: “I have made a pledge not to eat a single piece of office Halloween candy this week.
“Gaining Weight”
Commit to Fit | Week 34
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
I gained some weight this week. And I knew it was going to happen. ”Tomorrow’s going to show a weight gain, and I totally deserve it,” I said to Billy at DIAKADI, the day before my weekly weigh-in. Sometimes after a big drop, I get kinda cocky and I’ll indulge. This week was one of those weeks. Not that “living a little” is a bad thing, but I would say I “lived a lot’ this week. So the scale showed a 1.8 pound increase.
“84.9 Pounds Down”
Commit to Fit | Week 33
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
One of the great things about almost dying (see my Week 31 blog) is that you end up getting a lot of medical tests done, which is great when you’re hungry for your personal medical data because you’re losing weight and you want to watch the numbers improve. Recently my bloodwork revealed that my total cholesterol is down another 17 points, after previously decreasing 41 points a few months ago. While this is obviously good news, my blood work also revealed slightly elevated VLDL cholesterol and triglycerides (despite the overall decrease in “total cholesterol”) and a declining level of HDL (or “good”) cholesterol.
“Sex, Love & Romance…OK, Maybe Just Sex.”
Commit to Fit | Week 32
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
“Sex sells,” so they say. And it’s true. Chances are you clicked on this blog entry because you saw it was about sex. You simply couldn’t help yourself.
Lately I’ve been wondering why the beauty/fitness industry that so badly wants you to feel inadequate and out-of-shape doesn’t actually more clearly spell out that YOU WILL GET LAID MORE if you lose weight. Maybe it’s simply the limitations of marketing; you can’t be too tasteless and you probably legally can’t make promises like that (though they are definitely, strongly implied). Regardless, I have to say had I realized this fact sooner in life, I might have tried to lose all this weight sooner.
“A Visit To The Emergency Room”
Commit to Fit | Week 31
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
Off and on throughout September, I’d had some strange symptoms (stomach pain and loss of appetite, among others). On Thursday night, the pain became so severe that I had to go to the E/R. I was there from about 1am to 6am, getting a blood test, a urine test, and a CT scan, and of course waiting around for hours and hours. Luckily all the nurses were excited to talk to me about my weight loss during the down time. I’d only mentioned it to the one admitting nurse, but I guess she told everyone else. She was particularly excited to meet me because she used to work out at DIAKADI a few years ago.
“Looking Back And Cringing”
Commit to Fit | Week 30
Author: Commit to Fit 2011 Winner, Dave McKew
When you lose a lot of weight (and yammer on and on about it all over the internet), all sorts of people start coming out of the woodwork with their own weight loss stories. Recently I met three people who have told me they’d lost 60-100 pounds at some point in their lives. I asked them each to show me a picture of their previous selves; all of them said something like “I didn’t keep very many” and I found that to be an odd response even though all three said it.