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    Lose the Excuses and the Weight
    Lose the Excuses and the Weight
    Lose the Excuses and the Weight
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    Lose the Excuses and the Weight

    By Dartanyan Adkins

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    Lose the Excuses and the Weight is a guide in helping men and women of all ages and physically condition, get toned and healthy just by following a few basic fundamentals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 15, 2011
    ISBN9781463411015
    Lose the Excuses and the Weight
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    Dartanyan Adkins

    Being obese all his life and having to battle the strong prejudice society has on people that are obese. Dartanyan gain a better understanding of the world. After a doctor visit, Dartanyan Adkins discovered he weighed nearly 600 lbs. that was enough to frighten him to want to lose weight. He was afraid in he would kept getting any bigger, one day he would end up suffer a major stroke or heart attack and fall dead. He decided to join a gym and start shedding the excess. With a few years of trial and error, he discovered three basic fundamentals in losing weight: Change, Challenge, and Consistent. He believes these are the only basic fundamentals in losing weight and keeping it off.

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      Lose the Excuses and the Weight - Dartanyan Adkins

      Contents

      Introduction

      Change

      Challenge

      Consistent

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      All my life, I’ve always been a big guy. Because of my size, my peers always laughed at me and picked on me. When I was in elementary school, I got into it with other classmates because they had a problem with something about me that I didn’t understand then. I always thought to myself, I don’t bother or do anything to make them dislike me. When I got older, it made sense to me. I was bigger than other peers my age. I had a combination of both fat and height. I must have weighed three hundred pounds then. I began to distance myself from all the others because I was tired of having to battle other kids my age because of my size. I began to hate school. I didn’t want to go anymore because my size ashamed and embarrassed me. As I look back now, I wasn’t big at all. I was just stocky for a kid my age, but I didn’t have anyone telling me that. As I grew older and got further in elementary school, I stopped eating at school because I was ashamed to eat around other kids. I threw my body off. I skipped lunch and waited until I got home to eat. The human body has to get a certain amount of nutrition each day and consume at least three meals daily. Well, I stopped eating because I thought I was going to lose weight. As time went on and I acted like this every day at school, this made matters worse. As I got older, I became more isolated from my peers, and I led a more sedentary lifestyle. I got bigger and bigger. I’d eat and eat until I was full. I ate cakes, cookies, and those rolls with those special filling like apples and blueberries. I loved milk. I always told people I probably could have drank a whole cow filled with milk if I were thirsty enough. I loved milk, but not the 1 or 2 percent. Whole milk. I drank the shit out of some milk. My favorite nighttime snack was a quart of milk with a two-pound bag of baked beans. Yummy! That was the shit to me. Years of eating like that really added up, in weight that is.

      Even crueler, it didn’t stop there. It even followed me home. My father, a very foul, fucked-up individual, would talk about me to his friends and laugh with them about my size and how much I weighed. He’d tell them how big I was and tell them the size clothes I wore. I used to hate it, and it grew into a lot of hate and resentment toward my father. I always told my mom about how my dad and his friends poked and made fun of me. She’d always say, He’s just proud of you. But I knew that teasing with his friends wasn’t pride or love. That spiraled my self-esteem into a downward plummet. I grew to hate him.As time went on and I grew older. and built a high self-esteem about myself, I bought larger clothes sizes and gained a bad attitude with it. I had no problem with being a big, heavy dude. Actually, I believe I was more confident and secure then than I am now, but my only problem was my clothes sizes.

      Getting women wasn’t a problem for me. I developed a cruel and harsh attitude when it came to women who didn’t like me for me. My attitude was that, if a bitch didn’t like me for me, then that was her loss. I knew I was and still am a kind, caring, affectionate man, so why should I waste my time on some senseless broad? I hated and got tired of buying clothes that were only limited at a certain stores. I couldn’t buy normal-sized T-shirts at places like Walmart or JCPennys. I had to go to a big-and-tall store and pay anywhere from twenty-five to fifty dollars for a T-shirt. My shorts, because that was all I wore, cost from fifty to sixty-five dollars a pair. I thought I’d never see a size fifty or fifty-four again in my life.

      I decided I’d had enough. When I decided to make a life-altering change, my main goal was to just lose weight. At one doctor visit, I weighed myself, and I was shocked to find that I weighed five hundred and fifty pounds. That was enough to frighten me. I thought that, if I would have kept going on

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