Diet

 Diets are a interesting thing. They can be helpful or harmful, if used improperly.  There is diets that I personally would consider a more dangerous way of trying to become healthier and safer ways as well. For me diets were always about losing weight. 

The first time I did it I would not say I learned a lot other than portion control. The second time I lost the weight and it stayed off, but I learned a lot more ways to approach food. First time I was just doing what had to be done and nothing more. it worked, but it did not stick. I gained 40 lbs back. On the second time I learned hope to cope with eating some bad foods, and eating healthier, and working on my will power to not want to eat bad food. The Second time around I learned to make the diet apart of my life. I was not eating so little that I would be always hungry, but I eat with knowing what I am putting in me and fully in control of what I eat. I also developed eating plans to eat food I knew was not good for me. I made the second diet no long a diet but a way of living.

This is where I see what kung fu is and this is what I was thinking about when we were talking about making kung fu apart of your life, and not just a small mission to complete some goals then move on.  The most successful diets I have ever seen were the ones where people assimilated the diet into there lives. It changed the way they lived and I changed too. People who make that diet no longer a diet and a way of a new and healthier lifestyle majority of the time never gained the weight back and continued thriving. I believe Kung fu is the same thing some of the best martial artist I have seen have made kung fu apart of there lives. not just the physical aspects of it, but a lot of the mental and philosophical ways of kung fu as well.

 I have gained some weight, but I was unprepared for the mental strain I was going through, if anything eating was becoming my distraction from what was happening to me. I plan to get both my weight and kung fu back on track. I never thought life could suck so much, but I thank all of you that I talked with. I truly don't know what would have happened if I never did. Thank you

Sifu Langner