2000

Rodrigo
I beg you to stop thinking you're fat. You're not! Perhaps you're not in shape but you're far from fat. This will be your frame of mind for the years to follow. Think about this... You were at 178 lbs in December 2000. By October 2001, you were at 187. By March 2002, you were at 192 (counting that you were working out the past year or so). Then, in the Fall 2002, due to poverty, you'll go back down to the 180s only to go back to the 190s in the Spring 2003. By the end of 2003, you'll have gained some weight but only because you stopped exercising. In the Spring 2004, thanks to the South Beach diet, you'll go back down to 188 lbs. And you should have kept yourself at about that...

2005-2008
After that, you won't take any diet seriously as you did at one point. You'll yo-yo up and down, up and down, and up up up and AWAY! Even when you were working out until your back injury, you'll never let yourself go back to 180s-190s. Today, in 2008, you're heavier than ever (even bigger than1998-1999), at 236 pounds. You'll be depressed and hate yourself. Although your approach of indifference and enjoying what you eat makes you "happy", it doesn't. You'll be lying to yourself to cover up for a deep sadness and unhappiness with yourself.

So please, I beg you to watch yourself. Don't tell yourself that your fat and don't let yourself become fat.

Love,
Rodrigo (the fat one, in the future)