Inspirations

Its not often these days out here that I hear of anything inspiring, anything to make me hopeful...its usually all negative and crap honestly. But about 6-8 months ago a really nice kid came to my husband and told him he wanted to be a Marine...not being judgmental but realistic, my husband kind of shooed him off saying that there was nothing he could do for him because the kid was about 150 lbs overweight. My husband has had a lot of overweight people before come to join, he tells them they have to lose the weight and instead they just keep doing what they are doing and never come back. So needless to say my husband didn't really have a lot of faith in this guy either. So the kid told my husband, "yes sir, I'll get it done" and he asked if he could still come to the weekly PT sessions and all that and my husband said that was fine.

I met this guy about 3 months ago in the middle of his 'transformation' and he was the most polite, generous, sweet person I have met in a long time. At this point he had lost just about half the weight. And I'm not sure how many know this but now you also have to be able to do two pullups before you are allowed to even go contract. So the guy was down half the weight and at one pull-up. My husband and I were both pretty impressed and at that point my husband started believing in him.

Well let me tell you, today he is CONTRACTING as a MARINE!! He learned how to do 2 pull ups (minimum...he actually can do a lot more than that) and is down just about 150 lbs. All because he wants the title of MARINE! We are SO proud of this guy. Since he first came to the office, he has come to every PT session, every pool function, and we even got to meet his family at our home when they came for our pre-shipping yearly pizza party. The commitment on his face has been amazing and unwavering. I know he is definitely my inspiration and he has given my husband new hope and a renewed faith in the kids out here which I do not think he realizes how much that means to my husband. Mike is taking him and his family out to dinner tonight to 'celebrate' and get him a big steak dinner because if there is anyone in this world that deserves it, its him.