Weight Loss Journey

  So its been over one year since I created the initial blog and abandoned it. I wasn't trying to abandon it, it was more like life was too busy and some injuries occurred. I'm back and now and ready to move forward with my plan. In the last three months I have made significant changes to my health. The biggest changes: I quite drinking alcohol. It was as easy as saying I'm done. I thought this would be the hardest thing to do, yet I told myself everyday that I don't drink. For two weeks, not a drop. And then I just didn't want to drink anymore. The biggest driver was that I went out and ran into some friends and chatted, had some beers, and enjoyed the evening. On my way home, I was walking, I saw people I knew across the street from where I live and stopped in to say hi and did the same. The next day I was out over 100 dollars and all I had was a nasty hangover. I questioned myself why do I do this. I spent over 100 dollars and have nothing to show for it,...

 So the previous posts were from my old website that just didn't have that blog feel to it.  It was a generic webpage and I wasn't sure what to do with it.  While my goals haven't changed, my mindset has.  Since my last post which was over a year ago I have begun many changes in my life and I wish to share them with others that are looking for hope.  Weight loss has never been easy for me, hell, I've been at it for years and barely made a dent.  I know that I am not alone.  So I will seek out the changes that are required of me to make this happen.  Today, I have moved that website over to this blog page where I will begin plotting my journey to shrink to a size that suits my lifestyle choices. 

Yes, tomorrow, a procrastinator's favorite word. At least it was mine when I was procrastinating when trying to start my journey. So, why tomorrow? Well, because when is tomorrow? Is it the next day after today? Or is it always the next day? When making changes to your life it can be hard to start. I know this was always my biggest escape from facing the reality that I need to do something. Excuses rolled off of my tongue. Just one more and tomorrow I will begin. But, you know what? The next day arrives and you're right back at it. I can always start tomorrow. It is a viscous cycle. Then you get halfway through the week and now you are like next week. I will start next week. But time and time again it never comes. This is how it was for me. Trying to make big changes is hard when you have built up the habit and now your trying to override it. This is why I am breaking mine down to one thing at a time. So why start tomorrow when you can begin today? It doesn...

  These are the things I did before starting this Journey as they take some good willpower and time to overcome. The first thing I did was quit drinking pop. Yep, no soda. Now, this was done four years ago to help me improve my sleep. I gave up not just soda, but sugary drinks and caffeine After I gave up the pop I have only been drinking three things. Water, beer (IPA), and whiskey. Now, the only proper drink out of that list is water, so I still had some work to do on this.  You may wonder what the process was like to quit drinking caffeine. Well that is why I am here. Let me share my story with you. I hope this motivates you to do the same. No soda is good, period. I simply said one morning it is time to quit drinking soda. So what I did was stop drinking soda. This lasted about 4 hours until the headache came. That is when I realized that going cold turkey was not going to cut it. So I created my own 50% rule. We will call it the 50E. I didn't look this up n...

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  I am 42 Male as of writing this.  Before I had taken some measures outlined in my posts I topped the scale at 306. Everything had become a chore to do. Getting up and moving just sucked. I've yoyoed back and forth a lot but could never keep my weight down. I would always fall back into old habits. At this point in my life I have had enough of being overweight. This is why I changed my approach on everything.  While I haven't lost a lot of weight yet I made some slow lifestyle changes, more recent and one not so recent. Now, I am at the point that I am ready to lose this weight. So take a seat and join me for my journey.