"NAKED TRUTHS and Fun-House Mirrors"

Maybe you'd actually look better naked in front of a fun-house mirror!  You know, the kind of mirror that distorts your image, making you much taller, or wider, shrinking your torso, or lengthening your legs, arms, or neck.  If you are carrying in your mind a distorted self image already, it is probably the time to do something about your body. 

Go ahead and get started today.....as soon as you get home from work, get naked, weigh yourself, take a bunch of pictures of your body from all angles.  Then you can study what you really look like right now.  What you look like right now, that's who you are, that's who you ARE!  That's the way it is with all of us....
Maybe we got too used to thinking of ourselves as the person we were in high school.  When we played some sport, or when we were more active.  It is fun to talk about how we were always "able to eat anything we wanted without gaining any weight", and things like that.  But what about NOW?

Now it's a lot different, a lot different.  Now maybe we are not active at all.  We watch tennis on TV, but we don't play it anymore.  Used to be on the football team, or the swimming team, went to practice every afternoon after school, but that was long ago...  But we do have a gym membership!  Means nothing, unless you go to the gym and workout.  Hey remember, that going to the gym is not the same thing as working out!  Just like going to the pool is not the same thing as swimming.  Also, being in the pool is not the same thing as swimming, either.

Calisthentics? What are calisthentics exactly, did we do them in phys ed class in high school, I think?  They are the performance of physical exercises to promote flexibility, strength, and fitness.  Like squats, stretches, bending, situps, crunches, pushups, leg lifts, movements like that.  How many adults could do any such exercises at all, or without hurting themselves?  I know, you used to do all of them, no problem, but what you could do is Not what you can do!
So, what can you do now?  What do you do now?  How about some endurance exercises too!  Biking, walking, or running.

Those are embarrassing questions.  Get naked, stand in front of your bathroom mirror, ask yourself the same questions.  While naked, in the privacy of your bedroom, try some of those calisthentics.  Now what are you going to do?  How old are you right now?  Late 20's?  Already in your thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, older than that?  It doesn't matter what your age is, it's what you do!

How much did you weigh when you were 19 years old?  You were probably at your full height by then weren't you?  Doesn't matter if you are woman or man, you were a grown up person by then, weren't you?  Then you began to "fill out", spread out, thicken up, started to forget about your health, become complacent about your body shape?  Got married, started thinking about responsibilities, and the future?  Stopped thinking about your appearance, bought age-appropriate clothing, bigger sizes every couple of years?   Started showing less skin, covering up the bulges, dressing to impress others, but not trying to impress yourself?  Yes you did, all of that.
Get out all of your old pictures, it's time to find out what the lifestyle changes did to you.  Let's see what everyone but You sees!  SHOCKING, isn't it?  What happened to you, what about your youthful looks, your younger shape?  Gray hair is OK, that's not the problem....

You want to look better, you want to eat better, and that's pretty easy to do.  But if you want to look good, look much younger, much sexier, and reinvigorate yourself, then you have to incorporate daily exercise into your life.  Daily exercise, like children do, like you did when you were a child.  We look at kids running around, and we usually remark that kids have so much energy, and say that we wish we had that kind of energy, right?  Well, you can have that energy again, but you must earn it by doing something physical, or several physical things, as a way of life.

Some people are intimidated by the idea of beginning an exercise lifestyle.  I see many people who feel that way.  They think people will stare at them, see them trying to change their bodies.  They are afraid of being talked about, criticised, laughed at.  They're right about one thing, and that is that people will talk, they will make fun of you, and they will criticise your efforts.....
In the beginning they will.  But eventually all that negative commentary will turn into respect and positive compliments.  Your physical activity will cause others to examine themselves in the mirror, nakedly, and some of them will reach the same conclusion that you reached, "It's time to do something good for themselves, before the sedate lifestyle kills them."

Ten years younger!  How would your husband react if you looked and acted 10 years younger?  Men, how do you think your wife would enjoy being married to a much-younger you?

Why don't you just find out the answer yourself!

Front Closet vs. Back Closet?
All those old clothes of yours, some of them you hardly got to wear.  The ones you bought that were too small for you when you bought them, but you wanted to fit into them, and you convinced yourself that you would..... But you never yet convinced yourself to get your body in shape, because of laziness.  Laziness, or a complacency that took control of you, perhaps as a result of living with your mate, someone who also doesn't do enough for their own body.  (Like, "I won't complain about you gaining weight, if you don't say anything about my big belly!")  Know what I'm saying?

Let's review things, Go home, get naked, take a look at yourself for real!  Then get started, fix your body, fix your mind, and start getting younger today.  You Want To!

John DeFlumeri Jr. in Clearwater
"Decisions About Money and Controversial Commentary"
copyright 2010 John DeFlumeri Jr.