If you have a literary itch that
needs scratching THIS IS IT!!!!
Nanowrimo is starting this November 1st.
Get ready and get going.
Lots of acclaimed novels and movies
have been direct result of Nanowrimo.
If you have it share it. We will all be
better for it.
Jose G. Osuna
Looking back at many of my posts and many of the blogs that I follow I noticed that we all have set backs. I noticed that we all had plateau patches when we were stuck for periods of time. I noticed also that at times food and the warm bed won over our commitment to work on our weight loss plan. BUT.. I also noticed that when we re-committed to our goals we made amazing progress. This shows that were we to remain 100% committed 100% of the time this weight loss thing would be a done deal. BUT as someone who has failed at times I acknowledge that it is hard., possible but hard. We must have a plan. We must work plan. We need to have goals and they need to be ever present. And we must remain 100 % committed to ourselves. That is how we accomplish and conquer. Let’s keep up the good work. All the success to you all. Jose G. Osuna www.lapbandformen.com
Regardless of what happens
we must not give up.
When things don’t go the way
that you want them just re focus
and go back and try it again.
Gang… Shit happens and we must
not allow it to de-rail our efforts
and dreams.
If it is weight loss or financial goals
we must not stop and we must not
quit trying and pushing.
Our life is worth it. Do Not Quit.
Do Not Stop Trying.
Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Are there people who want to see you fail? OR.. Are there people who do not want to see you succeed?
There is a difference. There is a big difference!
When someone succeeds they are showing the people around them what can be done with a little commitment and a little effort. OK maybe a big commitment and a big effort. Regardless. If it can be done it can be done period.
People who are comfortable in their surroundings and with their own selves will not welcome this exotic theory of new and exiting exercise doctrines. Yes I am being melodramatic. Give me a break.
What I am trying to say is that: Not everyone will welcome the challenge of changing their lifestyles. Not everyone will want to. And it is ok. BUT it is not ok for us. We want more.. We want better.. We want health.. We want longevity.. We want a better life..
That explains the madness of waking up early., earlier than Jesus and the Mexicans Which is pretty darn early trust me I am a Mexican Jew.
Going to the Gym and getting on the staircase that goes nowhere and weighing our food and drinking more water than your neighborhood camel.
We want more.. We Want Better.
Gang. Stay focused, stay on guard and try and do better.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Isn’t if funny how the tone goes from one extreme to the other as soon as
the changes begin to show?
My biggest one was with my low carb diet., being of Hispanic descent
we consume lots of starch loaded foods.
But going from 361+ pounds to about 225 pounds gets people’s attentions.
By the way I am not bragging as if you have been following you know that I regained it and
then proceeded to add a few more pounds on top.
So lets take from this post that 1.- People will not always understand. 2.- The plan works.
3.- If we do not pay attention we can always go back.
And 4.- People will be inspired by our actions. Try and be inspiring. Reach out and help someone, Anyone.
keep up the great work guys.
Jose G. Osuna
Weight loss is not a once size fits all
and it is not a one strategy wins it all either.
We must exercise but we must also
keep an eye on what we eat.
One with out the other will not give us the
results we are looking for.
Even for those of us with a lapband
the integrating of both approaches is
a must and absolutely necessary
in order to reach our goals.
Be clear about where it is that you
want to go and stay the course.
By the way this approach works for
weight loss and for other things as well.
Gang Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Photography.
Yes it is this addictive.
This is one of my favorite activities.
Find something that you are passionate
about and add it to you daily life.
We are more than just weight loss.
What is it that you would love doing
for the rest of your life even if no one would
pay you a cent for doing it.
Live Gang. Live Fully.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
And even then be prepared for many
“acquaintances” to volunteer to take credit
for your accomplishments.
It is the nature of success.
True and real friends are few and
far in between so appreciate the
real ones that have been there for you
and forget just forget about the
“Acquaintances” do not waste time
on those that don’t deserve it.
Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Very Little That Me Or Anyone Else
Can Add To This.
Enjoy.
Jose G. Osuna
Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Once we decide on a plan of action the motion should only be forward and when we decided to have WLS a lot got in motion. Now, it is up to us that the motion continues and it continues forward. Follow the program It Works. Jose G. Osuna http://www.lapbandformen.com
Two things to get out of this Pic. IF you intend on
doing and accomplishing Epic Stuff.
1.- Do not associate with “Basic People”
2.- Do not be “Basic People”
The wrong associations will keep you at the same
level at best or drag you down at worst.
The right associations will push you to grow and do
better. You will be challenged to stretch yourself
and that is why we must avoid “Basic People”
As you grow share so that those around you
continue to grow and expand.
Be and do amazing and epic shit.
Live to the full extent of your abilities.
Gang stay focused DO epic shit.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
If you are on a low carb diet
This is a kick in the ass.
Still it is a Beautiful Kick in the ass.
I just thought I would torture you guys
as it is not fair that I should suffer alone.
Gang Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Yes it is a joke.
There is no perfect one size fits all.
I call it a dream more than anything.
Anywho… What I wanted to say was
that as a unlikely as this is it is also
imperative for the success of our weight
loss project that we figure out what actually
works for us. The logical and natural way
says that if we consume less calories than
what we eat the gradual lost will happen.
How has that worked for you??
In the past I shared of how I have tried
most diets on the planet and I also shared
that ALL of them work even if only for a
short term. BUT, BUT in looking at my own
personal experience I found that what really
worked for me was the Atkins approach.
That is me and it took a lot of trial and error
to figure this out so do not think that it is
a given that it would work for you. Try, Look
for what works for you because even after I
figured out that low carb worked for me I
used my knowledge, education and experience
to tweak this program to make it mine and
mine alone. In the end my diet is more of a:
Low Carb, Low Fat, High Protein, Low Sodium Diet.
And it works great. FOR ME. Now you have to
figure out what is it that works for you so that
you might be successful in your weight loss
program. It is about more than just weight loss
it has to be about living and enjoying life as well.
Gang be open minded and keep searching for what
will work for you and stay with it.
Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Cuts and adjustments must be made in order to keep things
in order. Not everyone will walk across the finish line with us.
Some people will choose to take a different road and it is ok.
Others will try to stay around but will be unable to do it.
Some we must cut and send on their way and that too is ok.
Pay attention to those close to you and figure out what is their
place in the big picture. Your big picture.
You see it is not that people are there only to serve you
but that they are there to BE PART OF. If they are not willing
or able then why are they in your life???
Be Fair and be honest about you and others.
Are you being part of others life? Are you sharing, learning,
teaching, being present? Are those around you doing the same
things for you??? If you or them are not then it is time for
removal and separation.
Living in honesty stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
Share the love gang.
Have you had a chance to re-visit and
re-evaluate your goals?
Are you making plans to improve on
your results next year?
“WHY” is the most important question
to ask your self and you must have
an answer for when the going gets tough
and it will.
The process of obtaining clarity with our
goals is one that we can use in all aspects
of our life. What is important to you?
What do you want to accomplish?
Where do you want to go? What do you want
to move away from? What is next?
Push and strive for clarity so you can
answer powerfully the question of
WHY?
Gang put it on paper and live it
every day keep it present in our day to day
activities.
Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
What are the characteristics of true change?
What is it that makes us from one day to
the other decide that we have had enough?
What is it that makes it possible to say:
No more, Never again.
For me it was a lengthy stay in the Hospital.
What did it for you? And,
If you have not had your epiphany yet think
What will it take.
I hope no one else has my experience of
looking up at several Doctors baffled about
my condition clearly not knowing what to do next.
Gang it is not easy but it is not complicated either.
It is Monday. Let’s get back to basics.
Drink the water, Measure your portions,
Increase your activity, Take your meds.
Go to the support groups, Take your vitamins.
Really it is easy to do but as Mr. Jim Rohn
would say:”what is easy to do is also easy not to do”
Be weird, let’s all be weird and let’s be doers.
Carpe Diem! or Carpe The Monday!
Let’s work today on a better tomorrow.
Jose G. Osuna
Love Facebook? We do too share this
blog with your friends.
Time to laugh a little.
Our diet and work outs are serious and important
matters but also laughing and enjoying life.
Jose G. Osuna
I love photography.
I love the places it takes me and the way
it shapes my way of thinking and looking
through the glass.
I want gang to get to my goal weight and
be as healthy as possible but I refuse to stop
living and so should you.
I do not promote to be careless about our weight
loss program and goals but what I do say is LIVE
and enjoy what you love because that is just as
important.
I remember the day I took this picture. I remember
the weather and what I had for lunch afterward.
Maybe the fact that I had never seen a flower like
this one before or maybe the Subway sandwich I had
afterwards at a Kangaroo gas station or the great
weather in Summerville, SC. I DO NOT KNOW…
But here it is. And the memory and the feelings
and emotions of the day will stay with me because
I had the courage to go to a place I had not been to
before at an inconvenient time when the economic
situation was not the greatest but I decided to live.
I have gained and lost many pounds since but the
memories I have and the life I have lived are and
will stay with me forever.
Gang Live and stay focus remain successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Stay with it gang.
It is worth it and it is doable.
Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
Our journey is one that we must tackle
with a never ending supply of wonder.
We know that weight loss and having
WLS call it Lap Band or any of the other
great options is an important part of what
we use to make our goals a reality.
Use the tool you have at your disposal.
Work on making progress and accomplishing
those things that will make a difference for you
in this journey.
Keep the ability to be surprised and amazed.
Look at all the wonderful options that we have
at our disposal for weight loss. We are blessed
to be in this country where we have options
for what we want to eat or not. It is really not that
much more expensive to eat right and actually
feed our bodies high quality foods than it is to
go pay a visit to the King or the Clown or even
The Colonel.
Please don’t go crazy buying $9.99 bunches
of spinach but also., do not negate your body
the necessary nutrients that are available to us
so let’s make the best decisions we can and
continue to win on this challenge that we
have set for ourselves. Keep going at it gang.
Jose G. Osuna
Twitter: @LapBand4Men
This little guys are Bear and Peter.
They have the same addiction my wife has
and that is Mountain Dew.
Just like them and my wife WE all have
some foods or drinks or habits that we carry
with us much as a pet.
One of the things we need to do is realize and
be honest about our habits both good and bad.
We can not change or adjust something we are
not aware of.
My challenge was Diet Coke. I could drink Diet Coke
all day every day but now I go months with out drinking one.
So I suggest that you do some soul searching and
figure out what is there that is holding you down or
keeping you from making a difference and work on
being rid of it.
Gang Stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Go Ahead Keep Building
That Sexy Beast.
Yes I am laughing.
Stay Focus Stay Successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
What is it that gets you out of bed?
What are your passions?
When you are the happiest what are you doing?
Who are you doing it with?
We talk so much about weight loss but
we must not forget those things that make us
who we really are.
One of my passions is Photography and I say
one of them because I am just as passionate about
traveling, eating, riding and writing.
All of this things give me happiness.
The mixture of this things define just as
much as saying “I am a male” or “I am Hispanic”.
Gang find those things that you enjoy and go out
and enjoy them. I added these pictures of my self
enjoying a “Picture Safari”
(Sorry I did not intended to scare young children)
We can not forget to live while we are here.
Remain Focus Stay Successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Phoenix Mexican Market, Charleston, SC, AZ Mountains, Savannah, GA.
Numbers can have tremendous power.
If we let them.
Numbers should serve the purpose of
inspiring and keeping us focus.
We can not allow a number to dictate how
our day will end or start. BUT…
We can not allow either our whims and
moods to have a similar effect on us.
Weight loss with or without Weight Loss
Surgery (WLS) is a daily battle, a commitment
to a better, healthier life and as such it
requires planning, commitment and
execution. Plan your meals in advance,
make sure you are drinking the water,
when purchasing groceries keep in mind
your goal and limitations.
If you are past the surgery then you have
received all the training and instructions
to be successful. NOW Go Do It.
We are all in it so reach out if you have
questions or challenges.
All the best to you all.
Jose G. Osuna
If you find this blog helpful, funny, entertaining, etc.
Please share the love and share on your favorite
social media system.
That said why waste another minute
on those that walk out of your life
or those you got out of your life?
Our peace of mind and the work on
the future us is way too important
to waste so STOP IT!!!
Concentrate on what is a head and
work you ass off to make it happen.
Why look back? You are not planning
on going back there are you?
Gang remain focused and you will
remain successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
So it seems we go back again to:
“How Bad Do You Want It”
We all dream when we see someone,
anyone being successful and accomplishing that
goal that we want and long for.
So the question again is: How bad do you want it?
How bad do WE want it? Not a single thing that is
worthwhile comes easy and that is the price
we must pay. How bad do we want it?
Will we get up in the wee hours and go to the gym?
Will we say NO to the second and third serving?
Will we find a way to drink the water?
Regardless if you have had WLS or not there are
clear and concise rules and concepts that work
for all of us like: If you eat 2000 calories but burn
them all or more consistently then you can not
gain weight. If you remain active the weight gain
will be less than if you live a sedentary lifestyle.
I am not trying to over simplify things or make
obvious observations instead what I am trying to do
is make a point that with out turning our world
up side down we all have enough knowledge and
opportunity to make a difference in our life.
Maybe we won’t make the cover of Men’s health®
or Shape Magazine® but we can be better and
healthier to keep working on that front page
shot WHY THE HELL NOT!!
Gang we can do a lot if we commit and use what
we have available to us.
Wishing you all the best.
Jose G. Osuna
Twitter @LapBand4Men
There is more to life than just watching others live it.
Let us not forget that life continues and that we Should
and must do our best to make every moment memorable.
Yes Dieting is very central to many of us but there are
those things that make us happy and allow us to
re-connect with the Real or Total Me/Us/I.
I share this photo of me in Charleston, SC where I had
a chance to enjoy one of my passions which is Photography.
I totally loved this trip.
I did re-gain some weight while there because I discovered
I had a passion for southern food. “Shrimp and Grits” Who Knew.
By the way if anyone of you ever, ever want to have the best
fried chicken in the world and I have had lots of fried chicken
all over but I have to take my hat off for the Fried Chicken at
(Drum Roll) Magnolia’s Restaurant in Historic Charleston, SC
yes many claim to have a better bird but They Are Wrong.
Gang.. Do not forget to live while you are alive.
Stay focus Stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
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Here we are on Monday again.
Another brand new week to
start again and work for a better
and more productive week.
We always try to make this week
better than last right.
We are getting up there on the
year and we should be working
on our goals for the coming
new year 2017.
It is never too soon and it is never,
ever so good a year that we do not
want to make the next one a better one.
Weight loss, more money, a better house,
a nicer car, that pair of expensive shoes
you could not justify or that new computer
you have been following on amazon.
Make it happen!!!
Write your goals, plans and wants and feel
the impact that has on your life and the way
you spend your time and money.
Gang it is doable., all of it you just need
a strong enough why and a clear path
of Solid Written Goals.
We have two months to 1/1/2017
Let’s work on more and better
and let’s stay focus and successful.
Jose G. Osuna
Yes. This is for you and for me.
Regardless of it all we can and should be Excellent.
Ignore or even better… FORGET all the negative, all the bad, all that was
and concentrate on the What Can Be.
If you truly want to be excellent Have Big Goals And Even Bigger Dreams.
Gang… It is time to GO BIG!
Jose G. Osuna
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It is that time of the year again bloggers.
This an opportunity for all of us who have
the writing itch.
This is a rather large community of writers
and aspiring writers that come together once
a year to bring new materials to life.
If you have an interest or even a desire to
create materials that could have an impact
or even just some thoughts that you want
to get out of your head give this group a try.
I do not claim to be a writer as you all know
English is not even my first language but I
enjoy the creative process and if you have
something that could make someone laugh,
cry or even better Think then you should consider
putting pen to paper ((Read finger to keyboard))
and let us read it.
If you have a writing itch that needs to be scratched
Visit: nanowrimo.org and learn more about this.
Gang stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
SO??? DO YOU???
STILL WANT TO QUIT???
Gang stay focus stay successful.
Jose G. Osuna
It all begins and ends with food.
I know that some of my highest of highs and
some of my lowest of lows can be directly traced
to either a female or a meal. Go figure.
Food and eating can have a firm grip on what it is
that we can and will accomplish.
The addition of extra water and more
activities are always suggested when in the process of
starting or re-igniting a weight loss program.
Gang we must be in control of our monsters or
we will loose every time.
Here it is to us! The brave that confront the monster
of the pounds on a daily basis.
Jose G. Osuna
The concept of “Tomorrow” is the biggest
thief of results, goals, dreams and accomplishment.
The best defense is to have a clearly defined plan
but more importantly an even stronger WHY.
When the WHY is clear the HOW becomes not just
clear but easy. Do you know you WHY?
Do not wait another day to start working on your
better self. You are worth it.
Put your dreams and hopes on paper and use
that to create a compelling WHY.
What is it that you want?
More money, more time, more freedom,
better health, a new job, a new or an improved
love life, peace, a new look?
Whatever it is will become easier, more doable
and easier to manage if you get clear and
put it on paper.
Gang we are worth it and the price we will
in the end pay will be well worth the work.
Time to get focused and be successful.
Jose G. Osuna
Twitter: @LapBand4Men
Gang… Writing is not about a novel or a treaty.,
writing is about making connections and getting
things off your chest and mind.
Writing is not about making a million dollars
even though that would be nice right????
Gang I am taking a little of your time to mention
that we are about to hit November 1st. and for some
of us that means that NaNoWriMo is about to start.
Nanowrimo is a contest/community/challenge
for writing and aspiring writers to bring out and
create new materials.
If you fancy yourself a writer and just to clear I do not
think of me as a writer. Actually my English is not really
that good being that Spanish is my native language.
Gang Nanowrimo is a great opportunity for anyone who
has a writing itch that needs to be scratched.
If you want to learn more about this visit:
nanowrimo.org and see all that is there.
There are many, many resources that could help
you grow and learn about writing and the possibilities
for you and your thoughts and ideas.
Hope this of service to you.
Jose G. Osuna
http://www.lapbandformen.com Twitter: @LapBand4Men
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