The Skinny Farmer

By Skinny Farmer Here at Skinny Farmer we are working to start a movement. Not a political or societal movement. This is a much more personal movement. Not THAT personal, silly!   The movement we are talking about is your body.  It's time to get up and move it.

By Skinny Farmer Goals are good.  Goals can motivate.  Goals help measure success. Everybody knows that. But not me.  Skinny Farmer has discovered that goals can be bad, too.  Goals can hinder.  And goals can give a false reading of where one is with regard to success. Say what? You are probably wondering right now if Skinny Farmer has spent a little too much time in the hot sun. I assure you that I haven't.  Goals aren't all they are cracked up to be. Martha, hide the children!  Skinny Farmer is about to tell them they can be listless drifters! No, I'm not.  What I have found is that there is something much more powerful than goals to help you succeed. What is that?  I'm fixin' to tell you.

I looked like I lived on a couch in a donut shop. No matter how much I worked out....No matter how much I dieted....No matter how much I suffered, it didn't matter. I was fat. I know the thin people would look at me and think, "If he would just stop eating all those donuts and get up off the couch once in a while, you would be thin...like meeee ." Ever feel that way? The truth was, I hadn't touched a donut in years.  No, for me, if I looked at a carrot, I'd gain weight. I didn't veg on the couch in front of the television either.  I was too busy with work and life.  I didn't even have cable. I exercised and tried to eat right. Was I perfect? No. Nobody is. But occasional slip ups didn't account for being so overweight.  They couldn't.  I needed to lose over 100 pounds! I didn't start out fat.  I was almost underweight when I was born.  Ounces away from the incubator, according to my parents.  And I maintained a healthy ...

We already established in the last post that I'm not skinny (yet) and that I'm not really a farmer...at least not in the technical sense.  I'll write more about that at a future date. I will be both of those things in the future and will be writing about my journey here. I need, however, to establish one other thing that I am not: I am not a medical doctor. What that means is that nothing that I present to you is to be construed as medical advice. I know what you are thinking: "Why should I listen to this Skinny Farmer, guy?  He is neither skinny, nor a farmer.  Heck, he isn't even a medical doctor." I'll tell you why. You should listen to me because I have already lost about 60 pounds and it has been relatively easy. Seriously. I plan to tell you how I did it and discuss what I'm doing from this point forward. You won't be receiving medical advice from me.  What I will be telling you about is what has worked for me and what hasn...