My Creed

My name is Ryan Maurice, and I am obese.  I am not fat.  I am not husky.  I am not chubby.  I am not even overweight.  I am, with all excuses, fluff words, and bullshit aside, obese.  While I don't necessarily find the Body Mass Index to be the most accurate way to indicate an appropriate Weight to Height ratio, I do know that it's not so unreliable as to be wrong about my diagnosis.  I'm sick, and that sickness is obesity.


I have no-one to blame for my illness but myself.  It has been completely and utterly brought on by me and me alone.  Life events, relationships, and mental defect have nothing to do with my illness.  My illness is brought on by complete and utter laziness, lack of real desire for change, and not giving a damn about anything but the temporary happiness brought on by shitty foods and negative exercise.

I have no excuse for my illness, and my illness is not an excuse.  I refuse to, any longer, allow an illness to weigh down my life, especially when it's an illness that is completely within MY control.

I have hopes and dreams of being healthy and being physically fit.  I want to push my body to the limits, but not the limits of sickness and the destruction of my body.  No, I want to push my body to the limits of health and fitness.  I want to be the epitome of what we, as human beings, should be.  I want my body to function exactly as it should, so that I can finally feel the way that a human being is supposed to feel.

My biggest dream, in all of this, is to push myself to do things that I thought I never would; to complete challenges that I, at the time of my writing this, could never dream of doing.

I WILL do this.  I will lose weight, and get in shape.  I will shed this illness , forever, and move forward with my life.  I will set goals for myself and meet them, through and through.  Oh, and most importantly, at the end of it all, I will be Tough Mudder.