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Get Real

I've put on weight!

I am devastated.

I eat once a day,

not always healthily mind you,

but not half bad;

and I rarely snack.

I do a rigorous, ninety minute,

gym session twice a week.

At home,

I exercise six days a week

with Sunday off for 'good behaviour'!

Four point six kilograms over

and my Body Mass Index up

from seventeen to nineteen

since January.

But hold!

I am guessing the daily beer

and whiskey is not helping,

but neither is the isolation,

the silence and the lonely nights.

 

11/04/15

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, isolation and booze...can cause the weight...and add that to the weight of silence and lonely nights...and you need to throw out the scale.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Nah my trainer and I will kick this in the butt and I will be back at my 25 year old form in three months lol-Not far off it now.

[Matching Socks]

The body needs 3 reasonable size meals and light snacks to maintain good health.
I wouldn't sweat it.

[Lydia Shutter]

Beer and whiskey will put on weight almost faster than an ice cream sundae. I believe isolation and loneliness leads to depression....which often leads to staying at home with a bottle of whiskey as a friend. Don't be devastated about a few extra pounds. Be happy and the pounds will disappear almost as quickly as they appeared. Very honest poetry. Lydi**

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Just my need to be in control of my body. The only thing you can control if you are lucky enough to avoid illness. Thank you Lydi.

[ANTO]

Deeply biographical in more ways than one John. The observations are common enough to guys like us of a certain age (though not in poems, so Kudos for that mold-breeching writing) but the end of this one sends out a strong self-awareness of the need to maintin one's social 'pyhsique', if you will, because we are not beings of parts, but beings of one whole in synergy. When one part is neglected (albeit not by choice) the whole suffers. That is what makes this write stand out from the crowd, my friend. Its all too poignant.

As an aside, I think you should go for a personal trainers accreditation - it would certainly introduce you to more people (and fit gals...)
Thank you for sharing this much of yourself here today my friend.
:))

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Cheers Anto. It was a session with my trainer and our three month review that sparked this piece. I have had an all inclusive holiday and my son's wedding since January. I have 'the Bruce' in me so am now motivated to do the work.

[ANTO]

Have you tried T-25 by Shaun-T - really cuts down on the time - as you know training can get sooo boring.
Im sure The Bruce liked a wee dram anyway - he'd have loved all-inclusive - as a any Celt would, lol
Ah well, time to get the finger out then mate.