TK-421 Why Aren't You On The Treadmill?

Welcome to Plastoid Pursuits! This isn’t just a blog about Stormtrooper armor, this is a blog about finding the motivation to eat right, and exercise. A lot of sites or magazines will show you ripped dudes next to fawning ladies in bikinis, and then tell you how you can live that sort of life in just six weeks of diet and exercise. We both know that isn’t true, and somewhere in the world there is an elephant graveyard of treadmills, Bowflexes, stationary bikes, and other gadgets that stand as a silent litany of failure to the “30 minutes a day/$29.95 a month” mentality. Instead we show you Stormtrooper armor.

Why do so many people fail at weight loss? I feel folks are motivated by something that is unattainable and I don’t mean in the “perfect cherry blossom” sort of way like you find in haikus. I am talking about this goal that in 6 weeks you are going to become some tanned Adonis. A lot of people find themselves two weeks into that goal, and they are still the same person, just hungrier, and then give up. Why shouldn’t you? You have sort of been sold a bill of false goods.

So let’s talk about the real goal, let’s talk about why you want to lose weight, and let’s talk about what is motivating you to lose that weight. Do you want to be ripped? Do you want to be healthier? Do you just want to trim a few inches?

In the end, I just want to look healthy in a shirt and jeans. I was told part of any good weight loss plans is milestones and rewards. The trouble is you can’t reward yourself with a fancy dinner, or cake and pie; then you are going to put the weight back on. This got me thinking about what I wanted out of looking healthy and I settled on a suit of screen accurate regulation Stormtrooper armor.

I have loved Star Wars since I was in elementary school, and very few things are as iconic as the white plastoid encased enforcers of theGalactic Empire. When I was svelte and young enough to begin Jedi training, I couldn’t afford the armor. Now that I am older, and wealthier, I am also considerably more rotund. So my goal of a healthy BMI of 24.0, 190lbs for my height, means I will not only look sharp in my civvies, but in the black body glove of the noble Stormtrooper. The last thing I want is to be trooping around, and some snobby Senator from Alderaan asks me “aren’t you a little fat to be a Stormtrooper?”

That is what this blog is about, healthy weight loss goals. Not getting cut in six weeks, but building the habits necessary to properly oppress the citizens of the Empire. It’s a big galaxy out there, and if you are going to be catching smugglers, boarding Corellian Corvettes, and chasing down Jedi you aren’t going to want to bring that spare tire along.