adollarwodbnice
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Well, I never really wanted to do this nor did I plan to but today I decided i'm completely sick of slacking and I think this will help me.
I'm gonna try to update when I can whether anyone cares or not (which I guess is the point anyway) but I feel this will be a good tool for me to get tips for what I could improve on too so I need it anyway.
Background:
I never used to be very big but I was not really in GREAT shape I just did alot of running round when I was younger so my weight never had a chance to catch up. When I got into highschool I was chubby but not BIG. My Sophmore year of highschool I was about 195 or so and I was very chubby and slow and lazy. A friend of mine who was really big decided he wanted to get into shape and joined the wrestling team. In like a month he looked like a totally different person and I was jealous so I joined up too.
So I weighed in around 195ish and I really only joined up to get into shape. I lasted until the middle of my Senior year...when I was done I weighed a solid 171 and I was in AWESOME shape... I was dieting, running ALOT, lifting, and enjoying life. When highschool ended and I stopped worrying about school and started working i gained some weight and I was probably around 200 but I was never fat...just not skinny anymore.
Fast forward to about 4 months ago...July 2010... I broke up with my girlfriend of about 7 years because things were just not working out. Now because I had a girlfriend that liked me for who I was I never cared about my health enough and I would just eat whatever I wanted and ALOT of it. I weighed in around 250 at this time and I clearly had a gut...still didn't look 250 but I was fat and HATED the way I looked.
I don't wanna brag but i've always been great with the ladies... never had a problem talking to them and making friends and all that stuff. MY first night on the town being a single man I was getting shut down left and right before I could even get a word out... these women would look at me and immediately give me the "no thanks" look. I was honestly pretty depressed about these things happening for a while... so much that it pissed me off.
My fuel:
A week had gone by since I had broken up with my girlfriend of forever and I was sitting at home with scruffy facial hair, a terrible lack of a haircut, a beer gut, and 250 pounds of unhappiness. I litterally looked at myself in the mirror from several angles for a few minutes and I decided then and there I refused to look this way anymore.
What I did about it:
So, conveniently my school gave everyone in my program a free gym membership and I had it for a year and never used it yet. I took a stroll down to the gym one day and it was the biggest gym i'd ever seen. Very fancy, tons of people in it, and TONS of equiptment, pool, nice locker rooms with showers, etc...
The very next day I came to school with an extra pair of running shoes and some basketball shorts and I set out on a journey to get into shape. From that day forward I went to this gym mon. weds. and fridays right after a big lunch and I would run 3 miles and do mixed weight before and after...alternating weights with ab workouts every other day. I constantly weighed myself and after the first week I had lost about 10 pounds which was obviously my water weight but this only made me happy so it didn't matter.
I decided I wasn't doing enough and cut out everything I drank that wasn't water and basically forced myself to drink TONS of it. This was also when I decided I needed to eat smaller amounts of food and eat things that were slightly better for me. Now I cheated every so often but compared to what I used to eat this was NOTHING.
In about a month I had clearly lost my beer gut and I was 20 pounds lighter... all I could think about EVERY DAY I was running and getting sick and tired of it was the look on the girl's face when she was just completely uninterested in some obviously handsome guy that was fat.
This was the biggest fuel for me and it continues to help me...
WHERE I'M AT RIGHT NOW
Well unfortunately school tripled and I have 0 time to run however I have kept the same food intake so my weight hasn't gone back up AT ALL. I still do weights and things but I have no real schedule. That is where this thread comes in.
Whether you read my story or not I will log everything I do throughout my days on here in hopes others will see what i'm doing and correct my wasted time so I can maximize where I want to be.
Essentially i'm looking to just be skinny... I don't want to be ripped or big I just want to have skinnier legs, thin neck, flatter chest, and as little chub as possible.
My starting weight as of TONIGHT 11/8/2010 is 230.2
Tonight I did 2 sets of 20 crunches with 2 sets of 20 push ups.
Today I had a turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat with mayo, fritos, and water. Earlier before it I snuck an Arizona iced tea in...the BIG ones for 1$.
When I got home I had a big bowl of lucky charms with 2% milk.
Now i'm going to sleep.
I'm gonna try to update when I can whether anyone cares or not (which I guess is the point anyway) but I feel this will be a good tool for me to get tips for what I could improve on too so I need it anyway.
Background:
I never used to be very big but I was not really in GREAT shape I just did alot of running round when I was younger so my weight never had a chance to catch up. When I got into highschool I was chubby but not BIG. My Sophmore year of highschool I was about 195 or so and I was very chubby and slow and lazy. A friend of mine who was really big decided he wanted to get into shape and joined the wrestling team. In like a month he looked like a totally different person and I was jealous so I joined up too.
So I weighed in around 195ish and I really only joined up to get into shape. I lasted until the middle of my Senior year...when I was done I weighed a solid 171 and I was in AWESOME shape... I was dieting, running ALOT, lifting, and enjoying life. When highschool ended and I stopped worrying about school and started working i gained some weight and I was probably around 200 but I was never fat...just not skinny anymore.
Fast forward to about 4 months ago...July 2010... I broke up with my girlfriend of about 7 years because things were just not working out. Now because I had a girlfriend that liked me for who I was I never cared about my health enough and I would just eat whatever I wanted and ALOT of it. I weighed in around 250 at this time and I clearly had a gut...still didn't look 250 but I was fat and HATED the way I looked.
I don't wanna brag but i've always been great with the ladies... never had a problem talking to them and making friends and all that stuff. MY first night on the town being a single man I was getting shut down left and right before I could even get a word out... these women would look at me and immediately give me the "no thanks" look. I was honestly pretty depressed about these things happening for a while... so much that it pissed me off.
My fuel:
A week had gone by since I had broken up with my girlfriend of forever and I was sitting at home with scruffy facial hair, a terrible lack of a haircut, a beer gut, and 250 pounds of unhappiness. I litterally looked at myself in the mirror from several angles for a few minutes and I decided then and there I refused to look this way anymore.
What I did about it:
So, conveniently my school gave everyone in my program a free gym membership and I had it for a year and never used it yet. I took a stroll down to the gym one day and it was the biggest gym i'd ever seen. Very fancy, tons of people in it, and TONS of equiptment, pool, nice locker rooms with showers, etc...
The very next day I came to school with an extra pair of running shoes and some basketball shorts and I set out on a journey to get into shape. From that day forward I went to this gym mon. weds. and fridays right after a big lunch and I would run 3 miles and do mixed weight before and after...alternating weights with ab workouts every other day. I constantly weighed myself and after the first week I had lost about 10 pounds which was obviously my water weight but this only made me happy so it didn't matter.
I decided I wasn't doing enough and cut out everything I drank that wasn't water and basically forced myself to drink TONS of it. This was also when I decided I needed to eat smaller amounts of food and eat things that were slightly better for me. Now I cheated every so often but compared to what I used to eat this was NOTHING.
In about a month I had clearly lost my beer gut and I was 20 pounds lighter... all I could think about EVERY DAY I was running and getting sick and tired of it was the look on the girl's face when she was just completely uninterested in some obviously handsome guy that was fat.
This was the biggest fuel for me and it continues to help me...
WHERE I'M AT RIGHT NOW
Well unfortunately school tripled and I have 0 time to run however I have kept the same food intake so my weight hasn't gone back up AT ALL. I still do weights and things but I have no real schedule. That is where this thread comes in.
Whether you read my story or not I will log everything I do throughout my days on here in hopes others will see what i'm doing and correct my wasted time so I can maximize where I want to be.
Essentially i'm looking to just be skinny... I don't want to be ripped or big I just want to have skinnier legs, thin neck, flatter chest, and as little chub as possible.
My starting weight as of TONIGHT 11/8/2010 is 230.2
Tonight I did 2 sets of 20 crunches with 2 sets of 20 push ups.
Today I had a turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat with mayo, fritos, and water. Earlier before it I snuck an Arizona iced tea in...the BIG ones for 1$.
When I got home I had a big bowl of lucky charms with 2% milk.
Now i'm going to sleep.
