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Re: Depression, in my own words.

Charles — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:53:51 -0000

Thank you.

Re: My front yard as a metaphor for my life.

dawesi — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:30:25 -0000

We are renting, and replaced our lawn. Some people say not worth it, but it's amaaaaaaazing now. Best thing we ever did. (and a lot of work as I chose the shovel rather than a machine for digging the old grass out)... anyway...

Re: The BIG Picture: Part II

Sonn — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:13:35 -0000

Waz, thanks for sharing. It feels more familiar than you can imagine, I'm so glad you're doing so well. Good on you mate! Keep it up!

Re: The BIG Picture: Part II

Alister — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:40:17 -0000

Hey Warwick

Thanks for sharing that. What a roller coaster ride. I'm so glad your current plan is working for you, and I hope it will continue to do so.

Thanks so much for sharing so vulnerably, congratulations on your fantastic achievement, and I look forward to hearing some technical details.

Cheers

Alister

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

Tom — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:57:33 -0000

Good work, dude. Nice read as well. Best of luck to your weight loss journey - and trust me, it really is one.

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

insomnius — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:56:21 -0000

Yeah, the main difficulty I have with the FA/HAES movement is that there can be sort of a backlash against people who *do* want to lose weight, change their body composition, etc. Surely the important thing is to work on changing attitudes so that it's unacceptable to attack or make assumptions about people because of the way their bodies look, not punish people who want to change their own bodies.

Re: LessWaz Goals 2012

Warwick — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:19:41 -0000

Still struggling with the 20 steps at work ;)

Trying to strengthen my right leg more because of my dud knee, but hopefully I'll have dropped enough weight to attempt it before winter. I'll let you know!

Re: LessWaz Goals 2012

Warwick — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:18:45 -0000

Hi Herman.

Not specifically. I'm working on some blog posts explaining my personal process.

I did read 4HB, but I just couldn't get comfortable with it. It was a little too complicated to manage within the current framework (and budget!) of my life.

The posts should be appearing on the main blog over the next couple of weeks - the first one is up now, but it's really about how I got here in the first place.

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

Warwick — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:16:00 -0000

I try to be open about stuff, this one has been particularly hard to write though. Part II is mostly finished, but it's a bit like opening a vein onto the page. :/

I'm really struggling with the FA stuff, because I feel hypocritical about encouraging FA, but not being able to accept myself at the weight I've been.

Thanks for commenting!

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

Warwick — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:13:22 -0000

Thanks, Zee.

Always love talking with ya, bro.

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

Warwick — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:12:53 -0000

Hey Mitchell.

Down 15.8kg since January 3rd. Doing OK :)

I've been vlogging about it on my YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/Wa...

Re: LessWaz Goals 2012

Herman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:11:45 -0000

Hey man,

I'm guessing you're on a version of the Slow Carb diet? (i.e. Tim Ferris 4-Hour body)... I've had VERY good results using this one myself. It means eating a shedload of beans etc, to replace the white carbs which I cut out, but it's totally worth it.

Sugar or anything that spikes at all the insulin is the enemy, coke is the devil, and you'll take a bit of time to get used to it with sugar-drops and feeling rubbish, but it evens out after a couple of weeks. The crazy thing was that I could eat any amount so long as there were no insulin-spiking foods in there and the weight just fell off. Your Youtube 1.8kg reports are pretty much in the mid-range of weekly loss (and it's fat, trust me - you can't lost 1.8kg of muscle in that time), but I've seen more come off regularly on people who are big.

Good luck!

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

insomnius — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:56:41 -0000

Props for writing about this so openly and honestly. And I find that (even as a fairly regular-sized person) reading stuff from the FA/HAES community can really help to counter some small part of the constant thinness messaging that we get from ... everywhere else.

Awesome job getting started on the road to improved healthiness, anyway. :)

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

Mitchell Hall — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:45:14 -0000

Hey Waz. I've been put on a diet and i'm losing 2kgs a week. If you want to discuss. Get in contact.

Re: The BIG Picture: Part I

Zee — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:21:24 -0000

I hear ya Waz. And more importantly, you make me really think about this stuff.

Re: Depression, in my own words.

Brit — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:02:35 -0000

I want to voice my apprecation for your blog. I just came across this and I don't think I've ever felt so understood my entire life. Thank you for your honesty and courage.

Re: LessWaz Goals 2012

Dee Wasserfall — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:12 -0000

Yo Waz! 1000 steps has been a goal of mine too! If you want someone to share what I anticipate will be a sweaty, gasping and un-pretty, but incredibly fulfilling experience, then let me know! Dee :)

Re: Standing on the outside…

Michelle George — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:20:46 -0000

when you figure it out, let me know. I am finding more community from atheists agnostics and church rejects these days LOL

Re: Standing on the outside…

Alece Ronzino — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:37:11 -0000

while it's hard, this much i know is true: the struggle is worthwhile. keep wrestling. keep fighting. keep putting yourself out there. keep chasing down community. it's worth it.

Re: Standing on the outside…

Nick — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:24:59 -0000

I don't think anyone truly knows how friendships work. In my experience you kind of drift through life and "click" with people; some more than others. I'm now on to my fourth social circle. I never made a conscious decision to leave any of them (well, one), but over time we all just drifted apart. I have some wonderful friends at the moment, but I do sometimes wonder how long this time around will last.

I think all you can do is make the most of the time you have with people, as long as you care about them in the moment then count them as a friend. Around the time I first started trying to figure this stuff out I was an avid reader of the web comic Queen of Wands. I think I developed some of views and attitudes based on the final strip. http://www.queenofwands.net/

Re: My front yard as a metaphor for my life.

Nathan James Thatcher — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:50:31 -0000

Well said my friend :) always positive to hear you thoroughly going through your thoughts and ideas as it helps me to feel realistic and real about some of my own situations in my life :)

Re: A question of loss.

dawesi — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:03:14 -0000

I love your use of words to describe your feelings. I quite often feel our conversations are something real and tangible, rather than trivial and distant. I find a small number of my friends can talk like we do without taking something personally, but I guess many haven't had a rough road where we live, so we shouldn't pass judgement there either. Life is sometimes easy, and sometimes unimaginable.

As we can love each other (on a spiritual level), we are able to even disagree fiercely (on an intellectual level) without feeling any separation or withdraw of affection and friendship.

So many deeply impacting things have happened in our lives so far and that makes life rich and meaningful, while generating more questions; questions that will one day be answered one way or another I guess... The one thing I know is that it doesn't so match matter why, but how, and then we can move to forgiveness and release.

Life is about bringing and discussing new questions. Bring it on! Keep asking, keep learning! How exciting!

Since I have talked to you my good friend Neil (28 yrs) broke his back in two places and currently can't walk. This comes just a few years after a 10 story lift drop, then a 2 storey one two weeks later, a surgeon that left gauze inside him during an operation that rendered him unable to have kids followed a long bout of chronic fatigue. This is a guy who understand adversity.

Needless to say he was one angry dude toward God and that spawned a 3 hour conversation. 1 hour of anger, 2 hours of feeling happy and loved by God.. it was a process, but Neil was able to reconnect with God and feel at peace and feel 'safe' and loved (huh? with a broken back... only God could be credited for that!)

I'm still not decided whether we change God's mind, or God allows circumstance to change based on the desires of our prayers, what I do know is that God does not change. (heck it even says that somewhere in the Bible!) Until I find out the answer to that question, I'll be happy wrestling with this one.

Heck, during church services (and conferences) I've seen miraculous healing of people I know, but then no healing of the person next to me? (and vice versa). While I believe in the tangible profit of prophesy and healing, I see it being manipulated also (as we are of course... human! and everyone gets things back the front sometimes). Fittingly, we do get carried away with signs and wonders (hence the name), and, if not used with clear and simple teaching and understanding, this can lead to confusion and fear. These things are good, but are they at the core of being a Christian, well no, but they are tools (like all gifts) to focus people on God (if we don't get in the way).

Hey Waz, perhaps rather than you faith being 'thin', rather you faith has been stripped back to it's simplicity, something that Jesus wants for us all! How awesome! Onward to the questions!

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Don't worry Linda, you're by no means unique in your view and there's plenty of great thinkers around the church (and joining the church), and there's a big shift in the church worldwide (from what I read) to move more to faith-led Christianity, and away from 'strict' rule-based 'boxed-in theology' back to the true nature of faith and the understanding of the application of works.

Just this year the Australian Pentecostal church grew 27% - this says volumes about what people want from the organisations that make up the church, and it says lots of things are being done right.

Re: A question of loss.

Dee Wasserfall — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:38:30 -0000

Waz, as always, I admire the way you express yourself. Your ideas about expectations and faith, and the way in which you capture your dialogue makes me relate; I can imagine myself following similar thought processes.

And the other thing I admire (I think I said this about you and Tan as a couple when Jessica was born) - your honesty in talking about the way life REALLY is, and your constant strength and determination in working towards a healthy way of dealing with everything that gets thrown at you.

Thanks for sharing, hope it provided some form of catharsis, or metacognition, or some other fancy word that I want to mean that articulating and sharing your thoughts helped you work through them some more. Lots of love, Dee xxx

Re: A question of loss.

Lindacreates001 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:02:53 -0000

That was awesome to read. Sometimes I feel I am the only one IN there (the church) that sees things this way... because the rest have left.

I have been reconstructing my beliefs from the foundation up because most of what I have been taught isn't really God, but what people have wrongly interpreted as God... It has amazed me just how much junk people forced in there in the name of God! People might worry that I am losing 'my faith' but in actual fact I am finally seeing the real light and life has never looked brighter!

I now choose not to look at life as a mission, a race, or a list of must dos to get to heaven or be right with God... I choose to just live, and it is in the just being myself and choosing my own adventure that the things in my heart and mind are only just now finally coming finally starting to happen - because I don't care who or what any more.

Does a beautiful bird with it's melodious song strive to be so glorious and make us see how awesome God is? No - it just lives it's life without worry and, well...

I am now certain God doesn't want anything more from us than us just following our heart... And with him being a part of our heart, we can't help but follow our destiny.

Re: Blocked

Arthur — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:29:00 -0000

Warwick, thanks so much for writing and for sharing your stories with such detail and warmth. It's been heartbreaking reading and I couldn't yet say what any of it means, but -- thank you.