Short history: I'm American, lived in South Korea last year and was miserable for reasons that I will mention in turn. During this time I found TRP, and at first used it only as a guide to better my health and mental state, but now I know how that goes.

Now to the successes.

Career improvement: I recently moved to Japan, which was a goal I'd had since I visited in 2010 and had a blast. The company I work for is small. I'm one of three full-time workers; the other are my boss and my good friend who helped me get the job. The work is lucrative for all those involved because my boss isn't Japanese. Which means we aren't expected to waste hours occupying a desk for the sake of appearances, extra work is paid, reasonable discussions of any issues can take place, etc. In addition, my boss likes me and depends on me, and is a workaholic who just had his first kid at 47. I have already begun to take the reigns.

Health: In the states and in Korea all I did was eat, smoke, or drink. In the US, I graduated university and immediately started working shit jobs that exhausted me for terrible pay to fend off student loans. This also many I was living with my father. Not shameful, but not fun. My free time consisted of smoking weed, drinking when there was no weed, and eating. I was fat before that, but that made me a fucking tub.

When I went to Korea, the honeymoon phase ended pretty quickly. I quickly found that while the town I lived in wasn't rural, it was suburban and very far from major centers of activities. Now if you don't know, the Korean national pastime is getting blackout drunk. Every night. Check out blackoutkorea.com for some funny and sad pictures. So, even though my day-to-day eating diet improved, I was still downing beer and liquor. Tub mode remained intact.

Today my work out consisted of going three rounds with a girl, but usually I have a short but intense workout in my spare room. I do some weight-free workouts to strengthen my body and try to lessen pain that resulted from my previous weight; then muscle build with sandbags and free weights.

Last but not least, SMV: Now, going from fat in university, to fat pot head, to fat drunkard surprisingly did not help improve my almost nonexistent luck with women. I was beta my whole existence, and when I stated reading TRP I thought: "No way this works. I don't even want this to work. I'll pick and choose what I feel comfortable with." Now, where I was, people didn't learn conversational Korean. This made my social circle disturbingly incestuous due to constant new faces and departures. Two really trashy South Africans and one gold digging Korean later, anger phase for three months.

Today I go out of my way to talk to everyone I think will interesting, not just women. I was social before, but now I network. When I used to drink and play video games; I now study Japanese, look for interesting things to do near my city, learn to cook something new, or just go to the mall and practice approaching in Japanese. I'm still fat, but there's a nice layer of muscle under that, and there less fat every time I turn around. Of course it helps that I'm 6'2 and a white foreigner in Japan, but in six months I've gone from only having had bad sex with four women that were just warm bodies, to selecting who I'm fucking.

Tl;dr Thanks for being the politically incorrect manipulative assholes, guys. It very much saved my life.