Back at it

Well it's a rainy Monday and it's Halloween, wow that is truly scary combination. lol  But I am excited to get back into the swing of my  routine today after a few days lay off with a bit a foot problem.  But today all is well and I can resume doing what I do.  You know scales are one of the funniest pieces of equipment ever created to do such a simple task as tell you the weight of an object.  They will in fact lie to you like nothing else, they don't care how much work you put in how good you ate they can be your best friend or your worst enemy.  I have been working hard for the last three weeks and that darn scale  simple won't budge and then I hurt my foot and am forced to take a few days off I step on and I have lost 5 pounds in 6 days. I'm very happy about that yet very confused, so now i'm sitting a mere 9 pounds from another major milestone.  That being for the first time in many years leaving the 300 pound club for the last time. I think there is a certain stigma attached to certain weights isn't there whether you are male or female there are tipping point weight that tend to put you in a category that society sees differently.  All of this is extremely unfair yet it's how others tend to view you this is why I think people hold their weight as such a closely guarded secret especially women.

Today is a day that a larger than normal amount of will power is needed for a lot of people when it comes to what we eat because today a staggering amount of my number one enemy will stare us all in the face, SUGAR. Yes I dearly love my old friend sugar  oh the good times we have had over the years oh yes sugar and her sexy cousin corn syrup and I have a long and checkerd past.  But however I can tell you now for a fact that there is indeed hope for all of us who are in these unhealthy relationships with these two banes of my exisistance  and that is like any other relationship where one side is abusing the other the abused has to simply walk away and never look back.  That's what I have done over the last 6 months and it was hard at first especially when so many ads bombard us all day every day to run back to the horrible clutches of those two.  It takes a tremendous amount of will power to walk away from something you enjoy so much even if it hurting you and that's why so many fail to leave them no matter if they are people or things.  But I guess my point is don't let Halloween trip you up if you are trying to quit something like sugar  just because ads have convinced us today we should gorge on chocholate  and candy just think if you can give up candy on Halloween the rest of the days will be easy. ( actually that's not really true but it sounds good right)

Well today I get back going on my exercise regimine back to gym for my Monday double hitter  I work out with Ulrick and Jen for 2 hours.  Then after a short dinner break salad of course I go back to do something that is proubly hard to believe for those of you who know me, I do a Zumba class.  Now I will fully admit I am not nearly the most competent  Zumba dancer in the class but I have fun with it  ( okay the second not whole truth of the today's blog, I really suck lol)  But for me with Zumba I wasn't afraid to try it and I get the benifit  I need to get from it.  That's what  you have to do Just get over your fear and live life, and now you can say if Don can do Zumba I can do whatever it is i'm afraid to do.

Well what ever your relationship is with sugar have a Happy Halloween.  Thanks to all of you who have made all the nice comments on the first few attempts at a blog. I hope to have some pictures up soon of some of the before and current me and some others and don't forget to click follow at the top of blog for the latest updates.  Have a great day and remember even on a holiday you can still be Fit.

Find a good team

One of the biggest elements I have had with my success has been my being very blessed to surround myself with people who will not allow me to fail. You often hear people say failure is not an option, well it's really true if you want to have true success in something like losing a lot of weight.  Something I decided to do differently this time around to try to make this time better than all the other failed attempts at turning my life around was to work with a personal trainer.  This has really made a huge difference in every aspect of my journey so far from fitness to diet to just plain ole drive to succeed.   When I signed up to my gym and decided i wanted to work with a trainer the assigned me the head trainer a man named Ulrick Alfred  who has had such a positive impact on both mine and my wife's success over the last half year i can not put it into words other than to say he is the man.

The first day I met Ulrick he asked me my goal and i had thought about it for a while and decided to shoot high  and see what happens so i said " I want to lose 150 pounds in 1 year"  Much to my surprise all he said was "great lets get to work" like it was just a small thing and not something that less than 5 percent of all people who set out to do it ever complete.  But it was that confidence in me and the team that was pushing me that lead me to believe in the first few months that achieving such a lofty goal might just be possible.

Many people have asked me lately how I have been able to do what I have done and there are lots of reasons I guess but they main thing that ties them all together is a drive to achieve success.  You see 7 months ago i decided health wise to go all in as they say at the poker table i was going to succeed no matter what.  This is what I have found is what you have have to do you can't tackle losing this much weight  without going on all in.  When your tired you go the gym any way when your all in, when everyone else has pizza you have a salad when your all in, when it's raining on a Saturday morning you get up and go the gym because your all in.

I am looking forward to a big week this week  as I  do this time every year I'm turning another year older on Tuesday. But also later in the week i am taking part in the filming an infomercial for a wonderful product called FIT Body Composition System. Last week I went to Utah to meet with the nice folks at Tahitian Noni who make this product and they were so impressed with my story that they invited me to share it with the world in this production.  The Fit is certainly a product that has had a big part in getting me here now and I plan to share more about it with you soon.

I hope to keep my blog updated as often as possible and keep everyone up to date with my progress.  But my  main reason for doing this blog is to hopefully help and inspire you who read it whether I know you personally or we have never met I want you to tell your successes and how you are getting it done in a big way.  So whether you have already started to make a change or need a big push I'm here to push you along.  So leave me a comment and let me know what you think so far and don't forget to become a follower so you can get the latest updates.  It's a beautiful sunny day here in Florida today but no matter where you are get out there and be active and take a step towards fit.

The story so far

One of my favorite quotes is from Star Wars and it's where Yoda tells Luke  " There is no try, only do or do not".  About seven months ago I thought about that quote as i decided whether or not i was going to start another campaign to lose a lot of weight and improve my health. Any one who has ever tried to do this will tell you if you use the word try your already playing from behind. I decided that as i approach my 32nd birthday it was time to stop screwing around and if i wanted to be thinner and happier it was time to do it, not try to do it but do it before it was to late.  Now as embarrassing as it is to write this I feel it is central to my story so i will tell you that on April 7th 2011 i weighed 420 pounds.  That number shocked even me as a person who has been big all his life, when i saw that number I was scared.  I knew that even though my health was fine now that the clock was ticking on a whole list of horrible things that would become inevitable at that weight, Heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and more or less and early check out for yours truly if I didn't put the brakes on NOW and throw it in reverse.  So one day an opportunity came my way a new gym was opening up in the perfect spot for me right in the middle between home and work and they were offering a terrific deal so i thought about for a few days talked it over with my family and to my surprise not only were they supportive they all agreed to sign up too.
So I decided this was it they time is now the opportunity is here and it is time to do,not try but do.  I have the most wonderful wife in the world  whom without her none of this would be possible she agreed to be my partner in life and now in making it a healthy one.
Now to the number i really like to type here as we approach the seventh month mark since that fateful weigh in at 420 pounds i can tell you I now weigh 312 pounds that's a loss of 108 pounds in a little under 7 months, i don't like to toot my own horn but they tell me that's pretty good.

With this blog I would like to share with you my story of how and why i decided to change my health and my life. I'm not yet where i am going but I'm now on the right track and I can almost see where I want to be from here and that's pretty cool considering where I was 7 short months ago.  I have Lot's to say and seven months of stuff to catch up on I wish i would have started right a way but I was just to busy out there making it happen to think about putting it into words. But from now on I would be more than happy to share my Journey From Fat to Fit.