Some people just drive me crazy

I love message boards. I like being able to "talk" to people (especially since I don't really have any friends in my area) but sometimes I wish I could reach through the computer screen and smack some of these people! "Oh I just ordered _____ and can't wait to start it because I want to lose 90 POUNDS IN 4 MONTHS! Seriously people? Did you just realize that you were overweight? Just because the morbidly obese people on Biggest loser who workout 6 hours a day and live in a controlled environment can lose 90 pounds in 6 months or less does not mean it is a realistic goal for everyone. I am fat. I know I am fat. This is not news or a surprise for me, as I have been fat almost my whole life and I have been this fat at least since high school - some ups and downs, but always about 100lbs to lose for the last 19 years. I love Turbo Fire. I think it is the best program I have ever tried and I truly look forward to working out (most of the time, I am learning to love it) but I don't expect miracles. I expect that with dedication and hard work that I can lose the weight and add muscle and by my 35th birthday ( 20 months from now) I can be in the most fantastic shape I have ever been in. But that is a fat loss of an average of 5lbs a month, not 20 lbs a month. These are the people that blame the program or the diet and throw it all out when they haven't made the progress they want in a month or two. Eat clean, do cardio, strength train - this is the way to get the results you want.

And don't expect unrealistic miracles. It took you a long time to get to the weight you are, it is not all going to come off in a month or two.

Power of Prose

259.8 - yeah, I don't know what's up with that...
W2D2 - 1.91 miles (a whole 1/10 of a mile further than Monday!)

So I follow a couple blogs, including one written by one of my best friends from high school. Have you ever read someone - some writer that seems to write about using a hammer (or some other banal thing) and have it always be complete and utter poetry? My friend writes like this. I can smell the jasmine scented air and feel the moist heat of the far east when I read her words. A "mommy" blog that I read, the writer does the same. Absolute poetry, thick with metaphor, every sentence like some kind of meditation.

People that can write with such evocative imagery... they are on my list of people I wish I could be like. Who is on yours?