![]() ![]() A few months turned into a year, a year turned into a couple of years, and when I didn't drink during our oldest daughter's wedding reception, I figured I had no need or desire to drink anymore. It wasn't intended as a "resolution" really, just a bit of a reprieve from drinking so that I didn't feel like shit for a while. It was at that point that I said I would quit drinking in the New Year. And it was fun, until I realized that my face was swollen, my hands were so swollen that I couldn't get my wedding ring off, and I just felt like death. The problem was that I found myself drinking pretty much every night for a week in a sort of "I'm here having fun with my family, and drinking is fun, so I am going to drink" way. My mom always taught me to go with my strengths, so I did. I rarely got drunk, so I must have been really good at drinking. I regularly went months on end without having a drink, but when I did drink, I didn't drink two beers I drank 15. I drank socially and not very frequently. ![]() I never really had a drinking "problem," in that I was fun when I was drinking and never drank to cope with life. Seven years ago I was in Michigan spending time with my family for the holidays and was drinking quite a bit. I will likely never revert back and I am quite proud of my decision to do so. I did, however, inadvertently make a resolution seven years ago and I have stuck with it ever since. Because they have cornered the market on eating right and staying relatively lean, they are apparently experts on who is serious about their goals and who is not.Īdmittedly, I do not have a habit of making resolutions for the New Year. It isn't because resolutioners fail bodybuilders fail all the time at managing money, relationships, parenting, not being narcissistic dicks, and a myriad of other things. So what? I am unsure why anyone would look down on someone for simply wanting to make changes in their lives and then judging them on the timing of doing so. In fact, a very high percentage fails by not even making it a full week into the New Year. Yes, most people fail miserably with their poorly thought-out ideas, weak plans, and grandiose proclamations of how they are going to change their lives. Instead, they self-loathe through the holidays and like to take advantage of the “clean slate” that a new year provides, and so they make resolutions. They only wish they could be as secure with themselves as bodybuilders and make all of the right decisions. The rest of the people in the mortal world have things they might not like about themselves, things they do that aren't healthy, and they may not like how they look or feel. ![]() You are above the rest of the world because YOU are a bodybuilder. If you want something bad enough, you aren’t the type of person to wait until the end of the year to drunkenly proclaim to your friends how you are going to fix your life starting tomorrow. You are far too disciplined and focused, and you are better than having to make resolutions. I know, I know, you are above making a New Year's resolution. ![]()
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