In the dawn of the Tilt community...

To complete a program, you have to be human. Completing a program, compared to what humanity has already achieved in this world, is a ridiculously pathetic, insignificant act that will only interest very few people besides you, and even those only to get the recipe from you so that they too can change themselves through you. At the beginning, no one will be with you, they won't really support you, but most importantly, no one will take you seriously. Your environment will acknowledge that you've started something again for the fiftieth time, but since they already know you, they'll let you do it, saying "go ahead, do it, one more face-plant won't even be noticed anymore", because they think this will just be another chapter in your book of failures. How life screws people over is clearly visible in the quality of the people around them. Of course, there are levels to this, and the boundaries are very clearly discernible. As everywhere in life, here too, the spectrum is wide, from supportive parents to destructive, useless, incompetent caregivers who try to project their own failures onto others.

Here, of course, I'm not primarily talking about parents, but about partners, spouses, friends, and worst of all, colleagues and strangers pretending to be acquaintances. In the rarest cases, the majority will support you, so it's wise to be prepared for that. In worse cases, and this will be more common, unqualified jerks will question the method and bring up meaningless arguments against it, looking for reasons why you shouldn't do it, or why you shouldn't do Tilt. You'll hear things like "this is starvation" and "going below your basal metabolic rate is unhealthy," they'll say this, of course, without having any idea what they're talking about, but that's far from the end of it. Then there are those who don't even argue anymore, but simply want to talk you out of it, and if you resist, they'll try to trip you up, make you insecure, break your momentum, take away your emerging self-confidence, and make your life difficult at every turn. They are the true scourges of your life. Poisons that act slowly and often without you even noticing. There's only one thing you can do against them.

Screw them...

Laugh in their faces, brush them aside, and move on, because you're going to be a Tilted person, and you're heading towards a community that you can't just join without action. Belonging here isn't about likes, or talking nonsense that nobody cares about, or grand promises, or bluffing yourself with ideologies, or the non-existent "someday" performances promised for tomorrow. A few months ago, there was a guy on Facebook. A guy who started plastering the shared wall with links to his blog, and when I told him he could stop that, he started explaining that he had a serious heart condition and was starting his program next week, and he was posting his blog's address there so that other people could draw strength from it, that he would do it even while sick... I told him that was all very nice and good, and I'm about to get emotional here, but besides you starting and it being a "celebration," let's just say you haven't even gone through one damn day yet, and right now it's just the pre-marketing that anyone can do. Start quietly, continue and do it even more silently if possible, and then, only when you've finished and haven't fallen on your face in the first week like most people, then, and only then, can you order the fireworks, but until then, this is nothing more than advertised rotten nothing.

Most of you mess up here, by the way. Tilt blogs are registered daily, but barely 30% of them remain, and most often not because you're weak-willed nobodies. Of course, that's part of it, but one of the biggest mistakes that blows up most programs isn't messing up the diet, but wasting energy, and you need that the most, because without it, you will fail without exception. Most women are slaves to appearances and superficiality, so they're only capable of scratching the surface when it comes to diet and starting a program. For them, running isn't the point, but the pink stripe on the running shoe, the pink gloves, and choosing the right water bottle and towel. It's like Christmas, for which everyone prepares for weeks, and by the time the holiday arrives, everyone is already sick of it and tired of the preparations, and barely any energy is left for the celebration itself. I can show you thousands of blogs by women who write 50-page introductory posts with millions of pieces of information that no one gives a damn about, where they write down their life story, what they're going to do, what they ate that day, all sorts of things that no one cares about, especially since they don't even know you, but most of all, because you haven't achieved anything. If you start writing a blog, you're an unknown nobody; it's good to settle that with yourself. No one cares about your boyfriend, or who you are, what you do, where you work, what diet you're going to follow, or where you'll work out. There are thousands of lifestyle and weight loss blogs on the net, and just as many are registered daily. It's like a talent show where many apply, but only those who have already achieved something or produced something worthy of the spotlight get on the show. It's the same with blogs. At the beginning, you're a speck of dust in the crowd, and whether you'll stand out later or whether anyone will even read you depends solely on what you've achieved and whether you can become a role model for other people.

When I write that the program is a selective one, I mean it most seriously, not because Lifetilt would be something special, but because successfully completing such a program requires at least minimal qualities that elevate you from the desperately average mass of people. Much more could be said about this, but I think I've already written these things down once, so the bottom line is that if you start your program, even if you keep a blog about it, no one in your environment should know about it, don't tell anyone, because there's nothing to tell. Don't waste your energy on unnecessary appearances, and do it so that they only see the process and your results, because it's harder to stop someone who is in motion than to hold back someone standing still from starting. If you're in momentum and in the process of what you're doing, if you see the results and believe in it, then no one will be able to stop you. If you understand and heed this, your job will be much, much easier. Don't say you're dieting, let the other women notice, and don't worry, they'll notice a lot. They even notice if the shade on one of your nails is darker than on the other. The basis of female existence is fault-finding observation, talking, questions, prying into another's life, in addition, of course, to the vitriolic malice that is standard equipment for a woman. I know that women don't exist without meaningless chatter, but try for once in your life not to tell anyone what's currently happening to you, in this case, your program. Lie to your environment and hide this slice of your life. It won't be difficult because if you're a woman, lying and secrets are an integral part of your everyday life; just turn this trait to your advantage now and thereby promote the success of your program.

Somewhere in one of the forums, a woman proudly recounted how, due to her diet and transformation, she became a prouder and perhaps even conceited person, but she braked in time and put herself in her place. These are the small-minded people that Tilt doesn't need, and if I could, I would ban them from the blog's vicinity for life. I don't need small-minded people, modest dreams, or those who "know their place." Be proud of what you do, but even more so of what you achieve. Love yourselves and set outrageously high goals for yourselves, and try to achieve them, or at least come close. You don't have to be loved, but I assure everyone that the majority won't be; successful people are disliked by very few in Hungary, but those people who don't like you because of your confidence, pride, and a healthy ego based on facts, are just as insignificant nobodies as they appear to be. I repeat: you don't have to be loved, it's enough if they respect you for your results, and get out of your way at the right time so you can continue undisturbed.

I've achieved a few things in life, but most of them I'm neither proud of nor value. This blog and the people around Tilt are the only things and people I am proud of. I'm proud of you, who have changed your lives, of the Program, of RunTilt, and of the community that has formed here over the months. A community based on values, without any money or interests, and this is what distinguishes Lifetilt, making it an unshakeable movement, and why you are one of the coolest communities in the country, without petty thoughts or any kind of ineptitude.

I don't even remember why I started this post, or where I was going with it. Do something with it, or whatever you want...