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My journey from fat to fit! |
| I’ve been trying to lose fat and get fit for a long time. This will be my blog about my fitness journey! |
| I weighed 288.6 pounds this morning. I train with weights four days in a row, and take three days off. The difference now compared to the past is that I look forward to my training days instead of looking forward to my rest days. It’s hard to believe that I’m finally in the 280s. I want to go as long as possible without getting junk food. I don’t want to give up the progress I’ve made recently for fleeting pleasures. I bought a Captain America shaker cup from Amazon recently. I saw Calum Von Moger using a shaker cup in Generation Iron 2, and that made me want one. I stopped eating plain non-fat Greek yogurt with my oatmeal in the mornings, I use a scoop of whey protein powder and I ounces of water that I shake up in my shaker cup. I think this might be a reason I’m losing so much weight. |
| I weighed in the 290s for around five months, I was 292 and some change a few days ago. On Tuesday February 25th, I had to walk and ride my bicycle 3.5 miles to an appointment. I had to get my blood drawn on an empty stomach. I ate a sandwich and drank a pint of low-fat milk at a store on the way home. When I got home, I had walked and ridden 7 miles round trip. When I woke up the next day, I was 289.4 pounds! This morning I was 289.8 pounds. Fasted cardio definitely did the trick. I have another appointment on the 20th of March to check my blood pressure, and I will be walking there. Hopefully, I lose more weight! |
| They say that bodybuilding prepares you for doing other things; if you can practice bodybuilding, then you can apply yourself to do any other difficult things. I believe the opposite is also true. If you can force yourself to do things you don’t want to do, then you can be a bodybuilder. Sometimes I need to urinate several times a night, and I force myself to get up despite not wanting to. The same thing when I need to cook or do dishes, I force myself to do these tasks. This has prepared me to remain consistent with weight training. |
| I’ve been consistent with my weight training for the past two weeks. I train legs on Saturday, chest and back Sunday, shoulders Monday, and arms Tuesday. It feels good to get pumped up four days a week, and having three days off really helps me stay consistent, so I’m not overwhelmed. I think my mistake in last years was going too Gung Ho and getting burned out too soon. |
| I’ve been training with weights on a four day split. I trained legs on Saturday, back and chest on Sunday, shoulders on Monday, and arms on Tuesday. I take two days off, so I train legs tomorrow. |
| I’m at my lowest weight of the new year today. I attribute it to these variables: eating healthy meals, cutting out those Wylers lemonade drinks, and exercising. For breakfast, I eat one cup (dry measure) of cooked Quaker Oats with one cup of plain, non-fat Greek yogurt and two teaspoons of cinnamon. For lunch, I have 5 large hardboiled eggs, one pouch of Seeds of Change organic brown rice and quinoa, and a slice of Dave’s killer bread with 2.5 ounces of guacamole. For dinner, I either have two ounces of Durham whole wheat noodles with boneless, skinless chicken breast and cabbage, onion and celery and 4 ounces of sugar free barbecue sauce; or I’ll have boneless, skinless chicken breast with broccoli and one pouch of Seeds of Change organic brown rice and quinoa. |
| I threw away all my old pills today. I had acetaminophen and vitamin c pills that had expired, and some glutamine powder from Beverly International that was three years old. Before February 1st, I made a log for my meals this month, and another log for my training. I plan on doing full body workouts twice a week. I read about Steve Reeves, a bodybuilder in the 1950s, and he did full body workouts three times a week. I’m out of shape, so I’ll train twice a week for the time being. I’ve been eating Seeds of Change brown rice and quinoa every day, this morning my weight was the lowest it has been so far this year. I’ve also been buying Kirkland organic chunky guacamole from Costco. I ordered some BCAA capsules from Amazon.com and they should get here Monday. |
| When I had a dog for a little over a year I walked him four times a day and got into great shape. Since the summer, I’ve been lagging on exercising. I very rarely went on walks. Starting yesterday, I’m walking at least once a day for 15 minutes. I want to build up and walk more than once a day. It will be interesting to see how long it takes me to get back into the shape I was in when I had the dog. On rainy days I won’t be able to go out and walk, but that should be an exception to the rule. |
| You only have your body in life, nothing else. You can lose all of your material possessions, but you only have one body. You need to care for it and eat healthy and exercise. Eating right and exercising are not optional, they’re mandatory if you want to live a long life. When I was in my early 30s, I played volleyball and was the best player of the guys I knew. The reason I was the best was because I pretended that I would get killed if I lost the game. Dieting should be the same way. If you pretend you’ll die if you go off your diet, you’ll take it more seriously. If you were traveling from Long Beach, California to Sacramento, there is a point of no return when it is too disadvantageous to turn back and retrieve something you left behind. The point of this metaphor is that once you’ve lost a certain amount of weight, it doesn’t make sense to double back on your diet and eat junk food again. Getting away from fast food and junk food and beginning an exercise regimen are like having a premonition that a plane I’m going to get on will crash, and choosing not to board. I don’t judge people who choose to partake of fast food and junk food, I feel sorry for them, just as I would those who didn’t get off that plane when I did. Some people will die from obesity, and I hope to not be one of them. |
| Sunday, 11/3/24 I weighed 299 pounds Friday and 297.2 yesterday. I weighed 298.4 this morning, but I ate ice cream last night, so I’m starting to make progress despite gaining for one day. I’m trying to work out every day in November. I trained back and biceps yesterday, and chest today. I was going to try Rich Piana’s bigger by the day workout, but that didn’t happen. I was busy with a writing project and wasn’t focused on training. I hope to slowly expand my workouts over the month. I trained shoulders this morning and went for a walk for 15 minutes. |
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