Andrewmham
New member
I guess I need something that will hold me accountable to the claims I've been making for years, why not.
I've been overweight since I was about 12 (21 now) but not seriously overweight until I was in high school. I hit my peak of around 230lbs my senior year, and actually managed to lose 25 lbs from January-April of 2005. My goal then was to get rid of it all by the time I started College, but that didn't happen. I had a series of desk jobs while in College, and when I graduated I started yet another (hard to turn down the money
)
I've held it steady since, right at or above 200 lbs. My body seems to hold it's current weight rather strongly; I always seem to even back out after a gain or loss to right around 200 (same was true when I was 230.)
Now, I've got another crappy thing going on...I inherited my family's awful hairline. I swore to myself when I started getting a bigger forehead that I'd take my hair off before nature did, but I refuse to be bald AND fat
I have the bad habit of doing really well for a week, and then rewarding myself for a month...these past two weeks being a prime example. I've been house sitting for my parents for the past two weeks, and I'll be damned if they didn't stock this house like a bomb shelter. Anyhow, I've been making up excuses not to go run, or hit the gym down here..."dont have my MP3 player, bad running shoes, etc."
I get to go back to my apartment at the end of the week, where my wonderful weights and trail await me (It seems I can really only get into working out when it's on this awesome outdoor trail, or working with my weights in private..) I've been working with a 40lb dumb bell kit for the past 4 months religiously, every other day...(odd that it's the one thing I can do consistently) and have had to up each one from 20lbs, to 45 respectively. I can actually see (and feel) the gains through all the flab on my arms, and that alone sort of showed me that it's not too hard to manipulate my body.
I'll either stick to it, or I wont...by sticking to it I suppose I mean posting here daily (which shouldnt be hard if I stop in while I troll my other forums) and actually making that nifty little scale in my sig move. I head off to Africa on business for a few weeks in October, and hope to be a little lighter by then. If the hotel there has a gym and internet access, I might be able to post all the way to my first goal date of Christmas Eve (22nd birthday.) Unless I really hit it hard, I seriously doubt I can lose 50 lbs by then, but should be close.
Going to start today, doing the same thing I did a couple years ago to lose that initial bowling ball...1500 calories in a day, burn at least 200 every day, along with a gallon of water.
We'll see!
I've been overweight since I was about 12 (21 now) but not seriously overweight until I was in high school. I hit my peak of around 230lbs my senior year, and actually managed to lose 25 lbs from January-April of 2005. My goal then was to get rid of it all by the time I started College, but that didn't happen. I had a series of desk jobs while in College, and when I graduated I started yet another (hard to turn down the money
) I've held it steady since, right at or above 200 lbs. My body seems to hold it's current weight rather strongly; I always seem to even back out after a gain or loss to right around 200 (same was true when I was 230.)
Now, I've got another crappy thing going on...I inherited my family's awful hairline. I swore to myself when I started getting a bigger forehead that I'd take my hair off before nature did, but I refuse to be bald AND fat
I have the bad habit of doing really well for a week, and then rewarding myself for a month...these past two weeks being a prime example. I've been house sitting for my parents for the past two weeks, and I'll be damned if they didn't stock this house like a bomb shelter. Anyhow, I've been making up excuses not to go run, or hit the gym down here..."dont have my MP3 player, bad running shoes, etc."
I get to go back to my apartment at the end of the week, where my wonderful weights and trail await me (It seems I can really only get into working out when it's on this awesome outdoor trail, or working with my weights in private..) I've been working with a 40lb dumb bell kit for the past 4 months religiously, every other day...(odd that it's the one thing I can do consistently) and have had to up each one from 20lbs, to 45 respectively. I can actually see (and feel) the gains through all the flab on my arms, and that alone sort of showed me that it's not too hard to manipulate my body.
I'll either stick to it, or I wont...by sticking to it I suppose I mean posting here daily (which shouldnt be hard if I stop in while I troll my other forums) and actually making that nifty little scale in my sig move. I head off to Africa on business for a few weeks in October, and hope to be a little lighter by then. If the hotel there has a gym and internet access, I might be able to post all the way to my first goal date of Christmas Eve (22nd birthday.) Unless I really hit it hard, I seriously doubt I can lose 50 lbs by then, but should be close.
Going to start today, doing the same thing I did a couple years ago to lose that initial bowling ball...1500 calories in a day, burn at least 200 every day, along with a gallon of water.
We'll see!