Before and After Photo

Like I promised here are some before and after photos.  I will weigh myself in the morning for my official weigh in! These are pretty crazy and I cannot believe how far I have come in just the 4 weeks I have been working out.

It feels great to be changing

Pretty soon I will be free of the Dunlap disease

Getting there

And a picture of my hot wife...  To much of my skin.

Bitter Sweet

So some of you might of noticed I didn't post on Saturday.  It was out of guilt.  I did workout with Jen and we did have a great time, but it was my free day.  I have to remind myself, free day doesn't mean eat like a mad man.  I am making a life change and pigging out on a free day is not life changing.  I also had a bad food day on Sunday.  So I didn't lose anymore weight this weekend and have stayed the same.  I figure I will workout Tuesday and post my official weight then.  First of the month style!

Sooo now that I have posted about my disappointing weekend, I have some great news!  I rocked day 1 of week 4.  I finished the whole thing.  I was very slow, but did not stop.  It felt great.  I ran a total of 16 minutes and walked 8, plus a 5 min warm up and 5 min cool down!  It felt great to say I did it!  The great thing about running is that you cannot cheat.  Its all up to you, you ran or you didn't.  And I did it today. 

I downloaded a Couch to 5K podcast.  It is pretty cool, it tells you when to run and walk and gives tips and encouragement while you run.  It really helped.  I hope everyone had a great weekend and now its time to work hard this week.  My goal is to break 300 lbs this week!  What are your goals this week!

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Because Week 4.. I'm Coming To Get Ya

I finished week 3!  I did not stop, I worked hard and did it.  I am really excited/nervous for week 4.  My brother finished it today and I am really proud of him. 

At the Meyer Center where I workout one of the trainers run a program started by Jeff Galloway.  It trains you for a Marathon!  I contacted the trainer a few weeks ago and we talked yesterday.  We talk and I told her where I was physically and what I am working towards and asked her if she realistically feels like I could do this program and be successful.  She told me I would be. 

So I am going to take the leap of faith and start with in May and train towards the Bass Pro Marathon in November. It is a 6 month program.  I know it is very ambitious, but I know that if I train right and listen to my body, I can do it.  Jeff Galloway focuses on Run/Walking the Marathon and doing it injury free.  Sounds about right for me.  The person in charge of the program here in Springfield seems like a lot of fun as well.  Lets see how the cards fall.  First thing first...  5k!  Look out March 5th..

Edit:  I forgot to tell everyone.  Monday is my official weigh-in.  I will be posting photos as well.

10 Superficial Reasons to Lose Weight

I saw this on Ben Davis's blog and thought I would share.

10 Superficial Reasons to Lose Weight.

Because we can’t always be politically correct.

- You don’t have to pull the seat belt as far to click it.

- Let’s be honest, chub-rub sucks.

- Far fewer sweat stains.

- Cartwheels are much easier (and graceful).

- No more pulling the shirt out of fat rolls when you sit down. (don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.

- People don’t eyeball you questioningly when you take the last cookie/slice of pizza.

- You can put your shoes on like a normal person. For those of you that have never been obese, trust us, it’s really really hard to put shoes on.

- No more fat-tax ($2 for XXL and up shirts)

- No more pretending like you’re wearing a T-shirt over your bathing suit to “prevent sunburns.”

- Floors don’t creak as loudly. Sneaking up on people is much easier.

Today was a weights day.  It felt really good.  Steven and I decided to sprint a lap between rotations.  So we will do all 7 workouts then sprint 1/10 a mile and then do all 7 again.  I think next week we might sprint 2 laps.  It really added to the workout and felt great!  We are also thinking about doing jump rope.  Anyone know of any good jump rope programs?

I am 6 pounds away from my Feb goal.  I really hope I can get to it.  If not, that is okay because that is still pretty dang good!  Keep rocking it!

Good Job Today

At the end of this week, I would of been going to the Meyer Center for 3 weeks and I am getting to know some of the people there.  Today after my workout and I was putting some gel in my hair one of the guys there asked me how my work out was today. I told him it was really good.  He then said something that didn't really mean much to me right then, but as I thought about it, it really put a smile on my face.  He said something so simple, "Good job today, you can do it."

If you see someone working out and trying to lose weight, please tell them good job.  It means a lot to us and helps us through those hard times.  It is my goal to tell more people how proud I am of them for being at the gym and working out.

Today I rocked day two of week three.  Those last three minutes were killer, but I got through them.  I am so proud of my brother.  He finished week 4 day 2 and it seems pretty intense.

I always get all emotional when watching biggest loser and last night something one of the girls said when they were facing the temptation challenge was, "I have been know to eat a box of Mac N Cheese by myself." My wife turned to me and said, "That was you."  I looked at every ones food temptations and I realized I could of ate every single thing on that table in one sitting and that is 8764 calories.  I could not believe it..  I am so happy with my new life.  I will not let this happen to me again!

All of you out there, keep going, keep working!  We can do this together.

The Long Term

I know this time is different.  I am not trying a lose weight quick method.  I am not trying a special diet.  I am focusing on long term.  I am at the gym everyday burning calories and I am watching what I eat.  Isn't that what we are all supposed to do be active and eat healthy.  Moderation in all things.  It is nice to think about, think about how if I keep doing what I am doing, I am going to lose the weight.  I am going to be able to run a 5k and more. 

You reap what you sow.  Before I didn't do anything but sit on my butt and eat.  Guess what, I got fat.  Now I am active and enjoying life.  Right now I am still fat, but that is going to go away. 

I write about this because every time I have tried to lose weight before, this is about the time I would quit.  I am not quitting and you should not as well.  Keep going and know I am here to help!  We can do it together! 

Addiction

When a person is addicted to something they are told to cut it out of their lives.  If you do drugs, you stop doing drugs and you remove yourself from those that sell and do them.  If you are addicted to alcohol, you stop drinking, and going to bars, ect.  I am not discrediting how hard it is to stop doing those things and I know people have fought their whole lives with it.  I am fighting with an eating addiction. 

I eat when I am stressed, board or idol. I am learning this more and more as I am starting my week 4 and changing my life.  I am learning more now that this is not something that will go away and it will be a constant fight.  That hardest part about it is that I have to eat.  I just cant cut it out of my life.  I just can't be around people who eat.   I am addicted to food and how it makes me feel when I eat it.  I really want to make exercise my new addiction.

I was able to finish day one of week three!  I was really happy about that.  I know that I can do the next three days and move to week 4 of the program.  I am really proud of my brother who started week 4 today and ROCKED it.