Starting self improvement!

VitaToss

United States14 Posts

February 24 2013 21:28 GMT

Hey TL! I thought I'd post here about my recent desire to better myself. I'm Tripp, if you'd prefer to call me my real name. I'm 18 years old, am a senior in high school and I am planning on becoming and EMT, and later a paramedic. As of now, I am 5'11 and I weigh ~220. (Not accurate, and I don't care for accuracy. I just want consistent weight loss.) Younger, I had problems with confidence and making friends. I had a few friends, and we are still very close. However, I've recently undergone a transformation into a somewhat social butterfly. After switching schools from a 5A school dominated by gang violence, to a 3A rural school with very few incidents of violence, I have become more open to talking to people. I'm more confident with myself, and I now am hardly ever at home, due to social obligations. I feel much happier with myself, but I have a few things to work on, one being my aforementioned weight problem, as well as a smoking problem. I currently smoke nearly a pack a day. In order to lose weight, and become a healthier person, I have started very recently a low carb diet. I plan on starting with an extremely low amount of carbs for quick, early weight loss, and I will then slowly add carbs until I am losing weight, maintaining decreased insulin production, increasing my metabolism yet still take in a healthy amount of carbs. I plan on pairing this with regular exercise on a rowing machine, as well as incline on a treadmill. My goal is to feel better, become less lazy, be more confident about my appearance and eventually resume my passion of baseball in an adult league. (Which is about equal to my passion for esports, which I spread every day I wear one of my esports related shirts/hoodies.) As for smoking, I do have a problem. I am addicted, and aware of it. I plan to start by smoking less and less, and maybe adding in some form of distraction from it such as chewing gum more often. If any TLer's have experience with quitting smoking, any help is greatly appreciated. I'm doing this blog as a bit of motivation for me to continue my improvement. Any help in terms of what to eat, what to do to make workouts easier would be lovely. If anyone is interested in doing something similar, send me a PM. I think it'd be much easier to meet goals if I had someone else trying to meet goals with me.

Also, I'm going to include a quote in every blog I make.

"Vision without execution is hallucination." - Thomas Edison

It's time I execute.

On an irrelevant note: Who am I going to see at MLG Dallas? I'm so excited. Hopefully, I'll be a little slimmer by the time that comes around.

Edited to place something somewhere more appropriate.

JOJOsc2news

3000 Posts

February 24 2013 21:39 GMT

Good luck! I wish you all the best for this endeavor and for your career in saving people's lives!

I won't comment on your diet choice. I believe you have made an educated decision. It really comes down to dedication and perseverance from now on. All the best! I sincerely hope to see more blogs in the future where you report positive progress. You are taking on a lot of thigns at once - that's not easy. I would love to give you a really good tip on how to quit smoking... but that'd be hypocritical.

sGs.FroZen

United States38 Posts

February 25 2013 01:54 GMT

The Teamliquid community is amazing and it's wonderful that I get chances to get to know about other people! I'm 14 years old and I have a little trouble making friends (I'm not a social outcast or anything extreme though). I hope you really work on that smoking problem of yours; keep strong! As I read this blog and the quote, I really thought about the things that I wanted to do but never executed (that one cute girl that I never had the courage for... and more...). Thank you for your time, I really appreciate it and I loved the blog! Cheers.

alexpnd

Canada1857 Posts

February 25 2013 05:23 GMT

Quitting smoking is a great thing to do my friend. I quit cold turkey several times. It was 4 months then back again. The last time was 2 years ago and I knew that would be it. I haven't and will not touch another cigarette again. It's one hell of a drug. I was lucky in that A) I was tired of wheezing when I went for jogs B) decided to stop at the same time as my friend and we would normally go out together and smoke on patios all the time. Smoking is one of the worst decisions yo can possibly make, and most likely you did it without much resistance which is exactly what the tobacco companies want. If you are to take anything away from this ramble is, pick your friends wisely! They influence what you deem acceptable, and trust me smoking is not!

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