Like just about everyone else last year, Santa decided to finally lose the unwanted pounds.  Being and avid fan of The Biggest Loser, Santa set a goal to lose about 200 lbs by next Christmas.  Realizing that he couldn’t achieve this goal without help he hired the professional personal training services of Mr. Paul F. Sweatt of Train To Sweatt fame.

Mr. Sweatt designed a personalized resistance and interval cardio based program for Santa in which they met for 3 one hour sessions a week over 11months.  In addition to their training session, Mr. Sweatt also showed Santa how to make better eating choices (no more cookies for Santa).  Santa  also did some yoga and steady state cardio on his own.

After a grueling 11months of training with Mr Sweatt, Santa became literally half the man he used to be.  But Santa’s imagine change didn’t stop there.

Now at a very fit looking 215lbs, Santa had an epiphany.  So in addition to his dramatic weight loss; Santa dyed his hair and beard back to its original reddish color,  change his trade marked red and white for black and now walks around everywhere wearing mirrored aviator sunglasses.

Bad(ass) Santa photographed outside his new shop.

Santa also traded in his sleigh for a  black Harley Davidson Fat Boy which he had detailed with silver true flame.

After he finished changing his personal image, Santa went on to revamp his whole toy making business.  Here’s what Santa had to say, ” I came to the realization that I have been wasting my time making all these toys for good little girls and boys.  So now I make toys foronly  the naughty ones.  Especially the girls. Hot ones.  Between the ages of 18 and 30.”  Mrs Claus was unavailable for comment.

He also up and moved his factory and elves to a warmer more temperate climate saying that now that he has a great body he wants to be able to show it off during the warmer months.  Santa originally wanted to moved to Florida but after negotiations the Elves Toy Makers Union decided to move his operations to central Massachusetts.  He also did this to be closer to his trainer who works out of Wellesley.

“Who would have thought that getting Santa the weight loss results he wanted would have had such drastic consequences,” said Santa’s personal trainer Mr. Paul F.  Sweatt.  ”If I had known that I was going to be responsible for all this, I might not have push him so hard.  I feel sorry for all the kids and Mrs. Claus.  I hear that they are getting a divorce.  But what can I say.  I do good work.”

If you would like to complain to Mr. Sweatt for ruining Christmas, you can email him at 4yourfitness@live.com.

Next up:  Rudolph Quits Drinking.  Is Red Nosed No More.

Welcome to my  blog.

Thanks for joining me in my quest to get as many people as possible, especially those in and around Wellesley, in the best shape of their lives.

I hope our journey together  is enjoyable and that you find here all the answers you need  to get you to the body you want and the health you desire.

Since I am just starting my lucrative writing career please bear with me until I find my rhythm.  Thanks.

On to the first post.

This past weekend I went to visit my mom.

The main purpose of this visit was to try to find an old picture of myself from around the time that I was heavy for my brand new website (which you are now on).

Age 12

10th Grade

Considering all the photos my mom had collected over the years I thought  this would have been an easy task.

Not so much.

I am quite certain that  I burned  most of  the “fat photos” long ago

I did find a few old class pictures but they weren’t any help.  You can see that my face is rounder and softer but not enough of me to see how big I was becoming.

Then there were a couple of pics of me with a belly, during the husky years, but nothing of me past 12.  I reached my heaviest around 16/17.

In every other photo of me that I could come up with I had already lost most of the weight that I would end up losing.

It seemed that I would be unable to find a “before” picture.

Then my mother had the brilliant idea to use a photo of my father. Because it was her comment that I was starting to look like him that got me to finally lose the 70 lbs, I decide to go with that idea.

Now if I had looked like my father did when he was my age, that would have been a compliment.  But she was referring to his later “Fat Elvis” years, when the weight piled on and his health got worse because of it.

Young Elvis	Fat Elvis

Looking at the pics of my dad was kind of a hard process for me.  I had recently found out that my father passed away in 2005 (I last saw him in ‘87), just 2 days after his 61^st birthday.

I am not exactly sure what he died from but I bet it had something to due with his weight, lack of exercise and poor nutrition habits.  He already had naturally high blood pressure which was being made worse by the extra pounds and poor health choices long before I last saw him.

My father, like many Americans,  chose  not to put the time and effort in to his health probably thinking (incorrectly) that it would take too much time.

Here are 3 tips to show you how quick and easy to improving your health and body can be:

1.)  Workout vigorously at least twice a week for 30 minutes.  Now I am not talking about a leisurely stroll here.  You need to be working out at close to your max for the 30 minutes.  Do anything thing you want for the 30 minutes, lift weights, do cardio, intervals, tabatas, all of the above, whatever.  Just make sure your heart and lungs are working like crazy and you are sweating buckets.  Hard. Fast. Done.  1 hour-a-week +

2.)  Plan ahead.   Being rushed and not having the time to prepare a healthy meal or snack typically leads to scarfing down unhealthy choices. Spending a couple of hours at the beginning of the week to plan and prepare what and where you will eat can help you make your diet way more healthy and nutritious.   You will also save time when you go shopping because you will be able to avoid the many aisles that contain nothing of nutritional value.    Save even more time and have a registered dietitian design an eating plan for you.  4 hours-a-week

3.)  Monitor how you look and feel. Take a couple of minutes every day to “check yourself over”.  Do all the things that doctors always tell you to do, like check for lumps, search for suspicious moles or bruising and anything else that might go along with your situation.   While you are taking the time to do the above mentioned things, take a look at your body in general.  Are certain parts or all of it getting bigger (fatter), smaller,  (less muscle tone), jigglier (both), flatter or flabbier?  Do something about it now while the “problem” is easier to “fix”.

Then when you are done with the self physical think about how you feel (been feeling).  Are you always tired, sore, cranky, grouchy, have headaches or lose your breathe easily?  These could be signs of a serious medical condition or could just be cause by a poor diet and lack of sufficient exercise.   1 hour-a-week

Just 6 hours out of the 168 you get  for the week can make a big difference in how your body looks and feels.  That is less than 5%  of your allotted time.  Can’t find six hours.  Turning off the TV every once in a while will probably give you all the time you need.

If my father only knew how quick and easy maintaining/improving his health could have been, being reunited with my father might still be a possibility.

Take the time now.

Follow the three tips given here.

And any future ones given on this blog.

Trust me the time you put into your health now will be given back to you many times over  later on.  Take care of  your body and health now before it is too late.  If you do not want to do it for you, do it for someone you love so they do not have to go though what I did.

Health and Happiness,

Paul