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The End is the Beginning

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Chris Shugart
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The End is the Beginning
I stared at the guy in front of me and he stared right back.

He was in okay physical shape by modern standards. A little soft here, a little flabby there, but you could tell he worked out. Kinda.

If you looked closely, using the correct angles and in the right lighting, you could see chin-up trained biceps and lats, press-improved delts and pecs, and legs shaped by iron and sprints. Though it helped if you squinted a little and used your imagination.

What I saw in the mirror six years ago was a guy who'd made a lot of progress, going from 35 percent body fat to somewhere in the teens. I saw a guy who went from weak to fairly strong, from practically nonfunctional to reasonably athletic, and from socially invisible (as the overweight tend to be) to comparatively passable.

But mostly I saw a stagnant guy. A stuck guy.

It's an easy trap to fall into. Going from a fat person to a not-so-fat person is hugely satisfying. You feel better, you look better, and you perform better. You magically reappear in social settings. The feedback is so positive that you start to feel pretty satisfied.

And this is where it gets tricky.

You've become the man who climbs halfway up a mountain and stops to enjoy the view. It's nice there. The man can see for miles. He feels good knowing that most people won't even try to climb the mountain, and yet he has chosen to do it. And here he is, halfway up, feeling good about himself, feeling smug in his half-accomplishment, his partial victory over nature and over self.

It's the best view he's ever taken in, so why go higher? It's easy to get stuck when you're halfway up a mountain. And it's even easier to slip back down.

I realized that day that I wasn't really satisfied. I was stuck.

Stuck at okay.

Stuck at better.

Stuck at average, acceptable, and all right.

My satisfaction had turned into stagnation.

Some people are motivated by support groups, tears, and helping hands. I'm not one of those people. I had no desire to wallow in my disappointment with the also-disappointed. I took no comfort in knowing that other people are lazy and hurt and wasteful too. I didn't want "There there, Chris, it's okay. Look, we're all a little pathetic and disappointed."

I didn't want their false comfort, their helping hands that only help to hold back.

I wanted instead to snap out of it, to put one heavy, half-frozen boot in front of the other and start climbing the mountain again. I wanted a view that would take my breath away.

You may know the rest of this story.

My solution was a dietary experiment that evolved into The Velocity Diet. I shed 16 pounds and four inches of "stuck" blubber around my waist.

I don't like to think I've reached the top of the mountain (there is, after all, great power and opportunity in staying a little dissatisfied) but the view from higher up is indeed breathtaking. And for the last five years I've been working with other people as they make their own climbs.

The V-Diet -- not a helping hand but rather a climbing rope -- has continued to develop and get stronger.

The physical changes are, of course, great. But the personal growth and the self-improvement go far beyond body composition. Your world simply shifts, as I've written before.

And so the V-Diet is shifting too. Because it's not just about a diet plan. It's not just about drinking protein shakes and taking supplements. The V-Diet is only 28 days long... the first 28 steps up to the top of a mountain where breathtaking things await you.

No, it's no longer about the Velocity Diet. It's about the Velocity Life.

The end is just the beginning.

More soon...