oddzuki
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I'm BAAAAACK. For those that are still around from, oh I don't know, three years ago or so... And last time I was here, I went under the moniker "Saturdaysaint" Here, let's travel through time together. Here's my first thread:
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/weight-loss-diary/7101-saturdaysaints-diary.html
Wow. Wasn't that nice? Well, it's time for me to get back on the horse. But things have changed a bunch since last time I was here. When last I was here, I was working IT for a Mortgage company, was about to move to Augusta, GA, and my wife had just had our third child. I was less than 20 days away from completing P90x and had made it into Onederland. I started at 236 and had gotten down to around 186 (VERY close to my goal) and was ultra focused. Well, that was 2007. This is 2011.
My son's birth threw my schedule for a bit of a loop. I stopped exercising almost immediately. Feeding schedules, weird sleeping patterns just didn't fit my routine of bed at 9:30-10:30, up at 4 exercising. The move also threw me off as well. We had a few mishaps with the move, ended up losing my job about 3 months after moving here (The mortgage industry crashed right around then), and well.. yeah... it just went a bit crazy.
Crazy enough for me to, over the past 3 years, get back up to 223.6 lbs.
Not good. Not good at all. All of the cloths that I was so very proud to wear are tight again. Love handle's are back, energy is low, and I just don't feel all that great weight wise.
Stress is another part of it. We started our own company. We do web design/social media management for businesses. Heck, we even started our own social network and web series for the local area. Very proud of our work. But being an entrepreneur has it's share of added stress. Which is what I'm dealing with now. But I have some crazy ambition/goal.
It all started when I was asked to cover the Ironman Half Marathon here in Augusta. 70.3 miles of swimming, biking and running. Here's the vid that I produced:
YouTube - In Augusta Episode 1 - ESi Ironman Augusta 70.3
And that inspired me tremendously. And made me realize that I needed to get back to what I loved doing. Getting fit. It's a struggle, but I loved it when I was doing it. So here we go. Here we start.
My goal is to get down to a comfortable weight, which I gather will be around 170-165lbs. I want to be a runner. I've never had the greatest luck with running. But that was partially out of not running properly. I've started the Couch to 5K program this morning and did rather well I think.
oddzuki's Activities | RunKeeper
I have a personal blog that will catalogue the "behind the scenes" portion of the web show I'm filming about my weight loss: Oddzuki.com
And the webshow will run on my webshow channel ACTV: ACTV
I'm here, before all of my former diary-mates (Tomble, Felici, dariqueen, wishes, alteredimage, cerella, trucker.. the whole lot of you) looking for the awesome support you provided me in the past. And I want to support all of you as best as I can. Until then. Cheers!
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/weight-loss-diary/7101-saturdaysaints-diary.html
Wow. Wasn't that nice? Well, it's time for me to get back on the horse. But things have changed a bunch since last time I was here. When last I was here, I was working IT for a Mortgage company, was about to move to Augusta, GA, and my wife had just had our third child. I was less than 20 days away from completing P90x and had made it into Onederland. I started at 236 and had gotten down to around 186 (VERY close to my goal) and was ultra focused. Well, that was 2007. This is 2011.
My son's birth threw my schedule for a bit of a loop. I stopped exercising almost immediately. Feeding schedules, weird sleeping patterns just didn't fit my routine of bed at 9:30-10:30, up at 4 exercising. The move also threw me off as well. We had a few mishaps with the move, ended up losing my job about 3 months after moving here (The mortgage industry crashed right around then), and well.. yeah... it just went a bit crazy.
Crazy enough for me to, over the past 3 years, get back up to 223.6 lbs.
Not good. Not good at all. All of the cloths that I was so very proud to wear are tight again. Love handle's are back, energy is low, and I just don't feel all that great weight wise.Stress is another part of it. We started our own company. We do web design/social media management for businesses. Heck, we even started our own social network and web series for the local area. Very proud of our work. But being an entrepreneur has it's share of added stress. Which is what I'm dealing with now. But I have some crazy ambition/goal.
It all started when I was asked to cover the Ironman Half Marathon here in Augusta. 70.3 miles of swimming, biking and running. Here's the vid that I produced:
YouTube - In Augusta Episode 1 - ESi Ironman Augusta 70.3
And that inspired me tremendously. And made me realize that I needed to get back to what I loved doing. Getting fit. It's a struggle, but I loved it when I was doing it. So here we go. Here we start.
My goal is to get down to a comfortable weight, which I gather will be around 170-165lbs. I want to be a runner. I've never had the greatest luck with running. But that was partially out of not running properly. I've started the Couch to 5K program this morning and did rather well I think.
oddzuki's Activities | RunKeeper
I have a personal blog that will catalogue the "behind the scenes" portion of the web show I'm filming about my weight loss: Oddzuki.com
And the webshow will run on my webshow channel ACTV: ACTV
I'm here, before all of my former diary-mates (Tomble, Felici, dariqueen, wishes, alteredimage, cerella, trucker.. the whole lot of you) looking for the awesome support you provided me in the past. And I want to support all of you as best as I can. Until then. Cheers!