Out of That's Fit came a mini-feature on Bear Grylls, star of Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild, outdoor adventurer, French Legionnaire trainee, British Special Forces officer, and youngest Brit to scale Everest. All around an impressive fellow worth looking up to for health and fitness goals. Turns out for weight loss too.
After completing his service to the British Special Forces and getting married, Bear gained two and half stone! Not familiar with stones? Well, each of the British survival expert's extra stones equal a whopping 14 pounds! That's quite a lot. 35 pounds to be exact.
Bear is ripped now. How did he make the transformation? He decided to! Bear says that he just was sick of being a loaf and changed his ways.
"Just deciding to" resonates with me. No great event has happened in my life to trigger my need to lose weight - no heart attacks, near death experiences or otherwise scary perspective changing wake up calls. And unlike others who lose weight for some goal out there like joining the FBI or getting married, there's nothing ahead that's motivating me in particular. Aside from knowing my partner would like it, but loves me anyway, I've just decided to. I'm tired of being the way I am and want to change it.
Of course I've got a lot more than 35 pounds to lose (which I'd also say it's somewhat insulting for fitness writers to write to about being oh-so-overweight at a whopping 2.5 stones over, particularly when their readership is 11 stones or more) and I don't expect to be training deep in the heart of Africa or have any desire to scale Everest. Yet, I still gain inspiration from seeing others who have overcome their own fat demons and gone on to really live a successful healthy life. If it can be done in 35 pound chunks, then I'm more confident I'll make it to the end, someday.
