Fat rejection 4 days in

It's wonderful. I love it.

Some people have a skewed image of their body, and no amount of convincing will convince them they look good enough. Other people are fat. Convincing a fat guy he should be content with his disgusting body isn't doing him any favors. Here are some nasty unintended interpretations:

1. Looks don't matter (so why shower? why shave? why replace tattered clothing?)
2. Your body is good enough. Don't bother about making it better, it's fine the way it is.

I've had a few people say I should be getting in shape for myself, not for women. I suppose that now that I'm sufficiently disgusted with being fat, not being able to do a pull-up, dehydrating more readily when playing team sports, etc., I am doing it for myself. If I didn't get disgusted with being fat, the only reason I would have done it was to increase my odds with the ladies. And really there's nothing wrong with that. 

People do all sorts of things with finding a mate as a primary motivator; I don't think it's sacrilegious to have that as a reason to get a better body. I don't see why when someone hears sex appeal as a reason for working out and fixing their eating habits they immediately encourage the person to do it for him/herself instead. Motivations are really a personal business. It's a more effective motivator for my workout to be disgusted with being fat than to do it for girls, but it's bizarre how that's a motivation that's not socially acceptable. What are people trying to do, demotivate fat guys from taking steps to quit being fat guys? No. I think it's well-intentioned leftover inertia from discouraging people (especially young women) with improperly poor body images from developing eating disorters. But as long as I actually am fat, don't worry!

My motivators, in order:

1. Stop being fat, then never be fat again
2. Win the love of a beautiful woman
3. Live to 100 (hooray for a family history of heart disease!)

After that, yeah, I'd like to be able to do a pull-up. But that's about it. I'll keep these motivators, especially #1, as a reason to maintain an active lifestyle, which is fortunately easy around here between hiking, walking, kayaking, skiing, biking and sports leagues. It'll be a lot of fun and I'll never be fat again.