I’ve fought my weight my entire life. Even when I was healthy I thought I was fat. I look back at pictures of me when I knew I was so fat and cringe. I wish I had that body again.

I am currently fat. It affects me in many ways. I’ve been fat for about 10 years now. I know exactly the moment when I lost my war with my weight.

The day my wife moved in. She had an abusive childhood with many fad diets and many that were for all intents, starvation diets. And when her mother would finally give in and give my wife, as a child, food, it was a sign of love.

For my wife, food is love, love is food. If she isn’t putting food in front of you, she isn’t showing love. Last night she was trying to shovel food on to my teenage son’s plate. He said “no”. She had to show her love and the best way for her to show her love is to put more food on his plate.

A lunch for me would be a sandwich. If my wife fixes us lunch it will be two sandwiches and a side and…

She feels love when she bakes. So she bakes and then I have to fight my sugar cravings all day and for the next few days.

She was the teacher that brought home every left over cake and cupcake. Because she couldn’t let it go to waste. So instead it went to my waist. I’d throw cakes and cookies and all sorts of things out and still more would show up.

I lost my war with food because my opponent was my wife’s love for me.

It was a slow grinding war. I was exercising daily. I was the guy that parked at the far end of the parking lot to get a little extra walking in. I always took the stairs.

When I started my own company working from home, my walk to the office went from 1/2 mile each way to 20 steps. And my weight went up. The gym membership failed when the panic started and when my doctor said I had to stop using the treadmill.

But Miguel’s story and looking at the need to be prepared beyond having skills and tools meant I had to find the discipline.

So I have my exercise bike. I get on that damn thing 5 times a week. And that’s hard. My wife says all the wrong things to motivate. She can’t give me my 30 minutes in the morning without having some demand for attention. I have to tell her to be quiet, which hurts her and I don’t want to hurt her.

I bought “salad” plates and use them for my dinner plates. They are much smaller, closer in size to the size of 50’s dinner plates. It means that my helping sizes have gone down. It means that my wife sees a full plate when there is one sandwich and small side, so she can still be giving me love.

I’m down nearly 20 pounds from my peak of 4 months ago. The discipline of eating less and exercising more.

I’ve got enough stamina that I can actually do other physical things that makes it still easier to lose weight. It is a war won battle by battle.

If you are overweight, no call it what it is, if you are fat there are things you can do to start losing weight. Then have the discipline to keep doing it.

I got tired of telling people who “wanted to lose weight” how I lost all my mine. I am done even sharing the fact I was once a 4XL-wearing, 400 pounds mass of blubbering humanity and I managed to lose almost half that excess because most people do not like the answer.

I usually gave them chapter and verse of all I did, the tricks I used and obviously warned them that it worked for me and they may need to adapt some stuff to their lifestyles. They listened attentively, but once they realized the work required discipline, you could hear and see their brains disconnecting and their minds switching to the Arby’s Half Pound Roast Beef Meal coupons they have in the glove compartment of their vehicles (Cheese not included).

Interestingly enough, there are a couple of friends who are actually doing dieting and progressing nicely: They are both shooters. Why? Not because of the guns but because they are already conditioned on following a discipline knowing that it works. Maybe it is a big jump from Cooper’s Four Rules to Counting Calories, but the principle stands: Discipline is key.

And it not only applies to losing weight but pretty much anything else in life you have to do to succeed. There are no magic Harry Potter waves of the wand to give you lasting success. There is only hard work performed with constant regularity.

That is all.

Army sergeant indicted for murder in 2020 Austin riot shooting pleads self-defense: police investigator agrees

An Army sergeant faces life in prison for a shooting that happened at the height of the 2020 riots, and that he claims was in self-defense. The lead detective in the case ruled his actions were justifiable homicide. That detective has also accused the district attorney of illegal actions in a sworn statement.

Violent protests, riots, and killings, in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement erupted across the country in the summer of 2020. Late one Saturday night over the course of that summer, Army Sergeant Daniel Perry turned a corner in Austin, Texas, and found himself surrounded by an angry mob of protesters sparking an encounter that left one man dead and has Perry facing life in prison.

On the night of July 25, 2020, at about 9:15 p.m., authorities say Perry was driving for Uber to make some extra money in downtown Austin and encountered a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who lacked a permit for their protest. They were illegally clogging the intersection, as protesters had done around the city several times in the weeks prior. Video shows that as he made the turn that night protesters quickly surrounded Perry’s car and began pounding on it and throwing rocks at it.

Perry, an active duty soldier stationed at Fort Hood at the time, says a masked man approached his vehicle with an AK-47 in the “ready” position. When that man, Garrett Foster, 28, raised and pointed the rifle at Perry, the Army sergeant and licensed concealed handgun carry permit holder, grabbed a handgun that he carried for personal protection and fired at Foster, fatally wounded him.

Roughly a year later, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza brought the incident before a grand jury. Perry was indicted on murder and aggravated assault charges. Additionally, an investigation by a respected veteran detective of the Austin police force concluded the shooting was a justifiable homicide. That veteran detective, David Fugitt, was the lead detective on Perry’s case and also signed a sworn affidavit accusing Garza’s office of withholding evidence from the grand jury and of witness tampering.

“Garrett Foster either intentionally or accidentally pointed his rifle at Daniel Perry’s head and Daniel Perry fired in self-defense,” Perry attorney Doug O’Connell told Fox News Digital. “And as a practical matter he had no ability to retreat nor was he required to.”

A trial date has not been set for the case, but Perry’s lawyers have a call scheduled with a judge on December 15th to review concerns with the grand jury process and how Garza’s office has handled the case.

Almost a year ago I posted about Perry getting charged. 

Despite the lead detective calling it a good shoot and evidence that the DA has engaged in criminal activity in regards to his handling of the case, it’s still moving forward.

This is absolutely political.  The slow grind of this case is intended to wear the defendant down and to teach us all the lesson that if we defend ourselves from their paramilitary enforcers, we will never be free of the consequences.

They will lie, cheat, and engaged in criminal malfeasance to secure a conviction or bankrupt us in defending ourselves.

My hope is that the recent pushback we’ve seen against Leftist prosecutors in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Virginia, reaches Texas and this DA is caught and disbarred for malicious prosecution and Perry receives a big fat check for what is being done to him.

AUSTIN, Texas — The 17-year-old who suffered a gunshot wound in an attempted aggravated robbery at the Domain earlier this week is thought to be connected to a string of nine robberies over the course of four days. Police say he was released from custody back on May 27, but cut his ankle monitor off before this week’s arrest.
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Later that day — 17-year-old Jaylyn Reed is accused of trying to rob a couple at gunpoint in the Neiman Marcus parking lot in the Domain. The victim shot him, but he got in a Chevy Malibu and tried to get away. He didn’t get far. Austin police caught up with him near the Domain and he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. His accomplices – Paul Rossum and Andre Harris – were arrested, along with a juvenile who was also in the car.

Teen shot near Domain thought to be behind nine armed robberies in four days | KEYE (cbsaustin.com)

And…

Jaylyn Reed, 17, has now been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Reed was already convicted of a series of robberies in 2021. Police say he was released from juvenile detention on May 27 with an ankle monitor, which he cut it off two days later. Reed then committed a series of nine robberies in five days, police say.
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“Surveillance video recorded Reed as he exited the vehicle and approached a black male victim and a black female victim,” police wrote. “Reed pulled out a handgun and robbed the male victim of his backpack. At the same time, the other suspects in the car moved forward and waited for Reed. Reed moved toward the getaway car while pointing his handgun at the female victim. The male victim pulled out his firearm and fired several shots at Reed and those in the Chevy Malibu in self-defense.”

Texas gun owner shoots teen during alleged attempted robbery | Fox News

Remember the meme about getting bad before getting even worse? We are there and accelerating. With the justice system now a cauldron cooking whatever loads of legal BS to excuse the release of criminals, not being prepared to defend oneself is just insane.

Hat Tip Gary E

My first thought was: “Why was there a body in the boat to begin with? Disposal of evidence?”

SMYRNA, Tenn. (WSMV) – Divers recovered the body of a Rockvale man who fell out of a boat Sunday near Stewart Creek Boat Ramp, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said.

The man and his wife were boating when he fell, Rutherford County Sheriff Sgt. Nick Coble said. His wife attempted to throw him a life jacket, but he was unable to grab it. His name has not been released until family members are notified.

Body recovered after falling from boat near Smyrna (wsmv.com)

And I am pretty sure the wife already knows the poor man died.

Bristol, England: Today, #Antifa members from the Anarchist Federation & other far-left extremists gathered to try & shut down a women’s rights gathering. The feminists were accused of being transphobic fascists & required police protection.pic.twitter.com/v2Mx6nkBGt

— Andy Ngô ?️‍? (@MrAndyNgo) June 19, 2022

Basically White Supremacists of the Left want women to shut up and get back to the kitchen unless they identify as pregnant males… or some crap like that.

This is our rule for commenting. For the most part our readers have followed this rule very well. There are very few times when we’ve had to remove a comment or worse still, ban a commenter.

Shortly we are going to a membership model. Commenting is a membership feature.

If you are a member, you will be able to comment. The “Don’t be a dick rule” will still be in effect.

So there are somethings that are obviously dick moves:

• Doxing somebody.
• Threatening somebody
• Verbally attacking somebody
• Implicitly or explicitly suggesting that we, as a group, will act in violence

For those that don’t know, doxing is the act of giving out contact information on somebody. This does not mean public contact points for politicians or other public people. I.e. it is ok to give the phone number for the Senate office of a Senator. It is not ok to give the private cell number or home number of that same Senator. Don’t be a dick.

It doesn’t matter if you hate that person, don’t make threats. Even jokingly. “I’m going to X such and such” is a dick move. It doesn’t really matter what “X” is. Don’t make threats.

We don’t all march to the same drummer. That is one of the wonderful things about this community. That means that we have disagreements. When we are disagreeing it is ok to attack an opinion, it is not ok to attack the person. “If you think that water is wet you are an idiot” is a dick move. Don’t do it.

If the only way you can counter an argument is by calling the person making the argument names, you’ve lost the argument. Stop now, don’t be a dick.

Implicitly or explicitly suggesting that we, as a group will act in violence is making a statement that can be read as a threat. “Well she’s going to be room temperature soon.”, “They better make sure their fire insurance is up-to-date”. The first isn’t a direct threat, it is a statement that somebody is going to kill her. The second isn’t a direct threat, it is a statement that somebody is going to burn something down.” Implying that we, as a group, are going to react to somebody’s past action is a dick move. Don’t do it.

The quote is: If we were as violent as the left thinks we are, there wouldn’t be any left.

When somebody within our community, or somebody posing as being within our community makes threats of violence it just looks bad. Don’t be a dick. Don’t do it.

These are examples. They are not a list of “don’t do this.” There is only one rule “Don’t be a dick”. We are not going to play wack-a-mole with somebody playing rules games. We don’t promise a warning. If someone violates the rule, admin will do what they feel is appropriate.

This post is a direct result of one commenter implicitly suggesting that we, as a group, were going to commit arson and murder. They were given warning for the first. This serves as their second warning. They will be banned if they violate the commenting rule again.

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