Shed the Mental Fat and the Rest Will Follow

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Elias Boston in Lifestyle

Just like a hunting cat must stay lean and mentally sharp to survive, so too must a 21st century man. And that means ridding yourself of mental fat. Say it with me. Mental fat. It’s that little voice in your head that tells you to pleasure yourself for the seventh time before lunch. Or to slop your way through a pint of ice cream and a season of 30 Rock in one sitting. In essence, mental fat is the desire to do nothing and go nowhere. Doctors say heart disease is a silent killer. Well, here’s a medical fact: mental fat has crushed more dreams than Michael Moore at a buffet line.

Say you’ve been working out for thirty minutes a day. You’re starting turn heads and you can even see your john-thomas for the first time 1989. Then all of a sudden you’re back from vacation wondering what kind of hurricane it would take for you to scoot your ass off the couch. Take note. This is mental fat rearing its ugly fat head.

Defeating mental fat requires you do nothing more than suck it up. If you’ve fallen off the wagon because it’s too cold or too hot or you’re not feeling up to it or you just broke up with you girlfriend and the world hates you, stop reading and do it. Whatever it is. It won’t be pretty. And you might not be as fast or as strong. But you weren’t that way when you started. So what’s changed? Just your mental fatness and nothing more.

The idea that you can’t do something, or that you shouldn’t do something is often the reason why we continue to do nothing. This applies to switching jobs. Ravaging a stranger in the laundromat. Eating food that isn’t total shit. Developing your obliques. Avoiding syphilis. Staying LinkedIn. Or even writing the next great erotic American novel. Whenever you feel mental fat turning you into a gelatinous mess, force yourself to suffer through it. Only then will the mental fat melt away.

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