How to win the food fight
I think of my dead father a lot. I miss him. I still wonder why I couldn’t save him from a life of addiction to hard drugs, hard liqueur and hard sugar. I see a little of my dad in every human killing themselves and their children with food today and I pray they get it before it’s too late.
I write a lot, thousands of words a day in fact. Many for HQ, many for this blog, many for my books, many in journals I will burn for fear of someone learning too much about me. The more you write, the more time you spend in your head, I think that’s why writers drink a lot and commit a lot of suicide. Sometimes I hit the “period” key hard and lean back like a painter with his last stroke, admiring something only my I could create. The rest of the time I feel like a prisoner stuck behind bars looking across at all the other free souls typing a way at their masterpieces. I shout, but they can’t hear me and I am left alone in my cell with a blank screen waiting to be loved with words.
My dad was a prisoner everyday.
The last 12 years of his life consisted of a one-bedroom apartment he never really cared to leave. After having a stroke some 11 years ago, his confidence wavered when in crowds, when around anyone other than me. He simply got comfortable being alone, he lost passion, he had no goal to achieve, not a problem to solve.
Addiction is life. We cannot survive without it. For my Dad, he gave up being addicted to achievement, and resolution. After that, he needed something to make him happy, something to cue his brain into thinking he was rewarded as a person. He chose food, and good food doesn’t give the same reward as bad food.
We have proven to the world that Paleo works and the world doesn’t give two shits. My Dad didn’t, and nor will anyone until they find a wholesome, maybe not even, addiction to live for. Basically, healthy for the sake of healthy is a battle we are destined to lose. Healthy to maintain our addictions, now that’s another idea all together?
I was never able to save my father because I presented factual knowledge that is irrefutable in and on me, now I know, I should of just found him another addiction to exchange the one he already had. Simply put, we can’t fight who we are, and we are all addicted.
To win the war on food, don’t stop buying cheerios, or start eating more nuts. Don’t hire me to tell you your an idiot every time you eat peanut butter cups. To win the war on food, find something you love and fill your days with it. Exchange one addiction for another, making sure only that the addiction has zero to do with Calories or drugs, and everything to do with your sense of meaning in this world.
My Dad sat around all day long in a one bedroom apartment lost and empty. As many do today when they have no passion, he filled up on food. When I need filled, I have my writing, CrossFit, you. To eliminate addiction is impossible, to exchange vice for virtue is human.
Skill:
Tabata Double-unders
*Triple-unders if you have doubles.
For time:
@0 minutes
50-Burpees
@5 minutes
10-Hang power snatch 55/75
7-Handstand push-ups
3 Rounds
@12 minutes
20-Push-ups
10-Toe 2 bar
3 Rounds
@ 20 minutes
12-Thruster 55/75
15-Swings 55/70(Russian)
3 Rounds
*Begin a running clock and perform each sub-section according. The amount of rest between workouts is however long the effort becomes. Score total working time added across all workouts.
Post impression to comments.
As I sit and read this, I cry. My addiction is food and it’s eating me alive. Thank you for your words, as they will save my life.
Thanks Marlene, means a lot.
23:52
17:24
Holy shoulders!
Great fight this morning. This workout looks tame on the board, but watching you guys do it, it was anything but!! Way to keep moving.
Teri Gulker did all 50 Burpees in under 5 min.!!!!
20:03 M (35# KB/ 5HSPU per round)
21:53RX’d
And I second Mo…took a while for my arms to function properly this morning!!
This has to be some of the most innovative programming I’ve ever seen. Cant wait to do this!
23:24(m)
I’m gonna say it first. I liked this WOD. My breathing is for crap right now but a few 5 minute WOD’s and under I can hang with our big dogs:)
17:32!
I say, “Come on big shoulders!!!”
I liked it, too, in retrospect!!!
21:19 rx
121 du tabata
I don’t know why those thrusters felt so heavy?!
18 dbl unders
26:54
I did this one wrong…I thought we had forced rests…IE the WOD was gaurenteed to be 20+ minutes. DANG IT! I woiuld’ve killed this one then. I was resting a lot and though it was weird…maybe I’ll have to do it again sometime.
I thought your number was high & panicked;)
Ash–each WOD is separate. The only dictate is when you must begin each one (@0, @5mins, @12mins, etc.). Take as little time as you need to complete each wko and then rest for any remaining time. You only add up the time you spent working.
No Ashley, I’m sure you did it right
. No need to redo… Ha
1000m row for warm up
800m run
Then
20 squats
10step ups #15 dumbbells
3rds
then
800m run
16minutes
i do very much like this post, it made me think about alot of things. This was an eye opener for me in many ways,
Thanks Josh for sharing.
Thanks Pres.
Excellent post jb.
15:20 m
Thanks big guy.
SS for DU
18:16 (m) Great class as always, thanks Foster!
I agree with Joel, n.ice work JB
13:41.
Great effort tonight 6:30… Lots of heart in a nasty wod.
Challenging WOD, physically and mentally. Appreciated all the proactive conversation many of you initiated during warm-up, today, in order to modify appropriately and still get so much out of this wko.
Evie – fun to have you in class for the first time. Had to chuckle each time you said, “Is that IT?!”
Alex – you’re really doing well. We’re all still learning what works, what doesn’t and what needs fixin’, but that’s part of the process.
Shelly – awesome work completing those burpees w only seconds left on the clock. Knew you could.
Matt Jones – finished those T2B in the knick of time.
Stacy/Brit – good to see ya’ll back in. Stac-strong effort.
Crystal – hspu’s are solid, and I think you’ve got the Hang Snatch thing down…now let’s take that technique to the floor!
Moment of the evening goes to Joel. Nothin’ better than hearing an athlete call bs on their effort before someone else can. Your knees on countin’ on you, dude.
20:something M
I liked this even though I hated it
Joel and nick…it was nice to have both my “brothers” in class.
Thanks for the coaching Foster!
21:00rx
Just what exactly blogs and forums for the purpose of governmental criticism on earth do you suggest me personally to study?
15:06m
L sit tababta
50 V-ups
10 Hang muscle snatch (bar only)/ 7 dips (3 rds)
20 push ups/ 10 laying on ground T2B (3rds)
12 strict press (bar only)/ 15 swings @ 35# (3rds)
Fun to sort of WOD with the class!