Today is Saterday January 2 2010

Due to recovering from New Years Eve yesterday was an off day. I still ate relatively healthy (kinda). Today I got a late start, woke up around noon, ran (burned 523 calories) and now I’m here. Haven’t eaten anything today. Gotta get the diet under control. On the way out the door for work. Gotta go.

Today is Thursday December 31 2009

Just got back from running and I feel great. For at first I ran at speeds 4.0, 3.0, 3.5, and 5.0 but not in any organized many. at about the 25 or 30 minutes I ran at the 5.0 speed (which is a run) for 5 minutes, and the next 5 minutes I walked at the 4.0 speed, jumped down to 3.5 after 3 or 4 minutes and then dropped again to 3.0 for the last 30 seconds, and then back to 5.0 for 5 minutes. Using this method I broke 505 calories burnt today.
So far I ate:
Meal 1: egg sandwich
Meal 2: Ham and cheese sandwich.
Because its New Years Eve, I know I'm gonna drink pretty heavily tonight and I'll probably end up eating pretty shitty tonight, so I will use tonight as my 'cheat day' (but until going out I'll still eat healthy).

Today is Wendsday, December 30 2009

So today I ate:
Meal 1: 2 eggs, 2 pieces of bacon
Meal 2: ham and cheese sandwich, handful of Doritos
Meal 3: pot roast sandwich, handful of Doritos
Meal 4: eggsalad sandwich, handful of Doritos
Ran for an hour, went by fast enough I guess. Not much else to say, about to eat my last meal of the day (cubed steak with green beans and scalloped potatoes, also some bannana pudding for dessert a little while later. Oh I bought a scale. Weight is:181.2, will be updated every week with the pictures.

Today is Tuesday, December 29, 2009

So this is what i ate today:
meal 1: bowl of cheerios, 3 eggs, 2 pieces of toast
meal 2: boneless chicken, rice with mushroom gravy, cream corn
thoughout the day i snacked on a couple of small cheese blocks (about the size of a dime each) a few oreos and 2 mini slim jims (I had to snap into 'em). I just got back from running on the tredmill for an hour (alright so I probably walked more than I ran but it's a start), and after I go grab a movie from the rental place I will have another plate of a half a piece of chicken and some more corn. O.K. so i know I only ate twice so far but at least it was healthy. About the treadmill: the time went by faster today but probably only because i was watching No Country for Old Men and I have never seen it before. Either on the way back from picking up the movie or mabey first thing tommorrow morining I'll pick up a scale to wiegh myself and keep track of how mush weight I'll (hopefully) lose.
p.s. I need to remember to pick up some Dr. Sholes too.

So far So good.

Today is Tuesday, December 29, 2009

So its 2:18 am, I got to the ‘gym’ at my girlfriend’s apartments around 12:30 and by 12:45 I remembered why even when I was lifting weights I always skipped cardio. It’s boring. But luckily there’s a T.V. so after an episode and a half of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and about two episodes of Pawn Stars I was done. Because I really can’t afford to get a nice pair of running shoes which run at least 100 bucks, I ran in my work shoes, which because I work in a restaurant my feet were pretty pissed about it but I’ve promised them that I will pick up some Dr. Sholes pads In a few days and I’m feeling pretty good about the run after I hop off the treadmill so it’s a good day still. Hop in the shower and now here I am, eating a chicken caesar wrap left over from my girlfriend’s dinner. Not the best choice in the world but I’m too tired to cook and I need something before I go to bed.
Feeling good about this so far.

It all started with a t-shirt

I never thought I’d be writing a blog. I’ve read a couple of ‘em, some interesting, others funny, I just never thought any of them would be written by me. The whole purpose of this blog is to keep me on track. About two years ago I began to really get into weight lifting. I was in the gym 5-6 days a week for almost a year, and eating 6-7 small, healthy meals throughout the day. I was a bona fide gym rat. I wasn’t built like a bodybuilder or cut up, but I had a pretty good build going on and felt great. Towards the end of my year long gym membership I went from 5-6 days a week to 2-3, and a few months before my gym membership expired I wasn’t going at all. Shortly after I left the gym my meal plan went out the window, I was eating healthy just not a lot. After that I joined a local Mixed Martial Arts gym and for 3 months I went to a 2-day a week beginners class and loved every minute of it. I stopped going in august because of school and money and for the past five months I haven’t been doing any exercising and my diet has been terrible. I keep telling myself I’ll start to run/weight lift/go back to MMA, but it’s always no time, no money or some other excuse that really boiled down to a lack of real motivation. That all ended a few days ago when my girlfriend and I went to a friend’s house to hang out with them and my brother. Now I had come from work and had to change before going over there, and the shirt I picked out was one that I hadn’t worn in a while. It just so happened that this particular shirt was bought when I was lifting weights and going to the MMA gym, so when I bought the shirt it was fitted on me and I looked pretty good in it. Well when I put the shirt on to go to my buddies house it was a shock to the system. I mean, I knew some of my shirts fit a little different on account of some weight gain and loss of muscle mass, but I wasn’t expecting anything like this. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but to me this one simply said: you gotta be kidding me

So I decided to cut all the BS and get in shape. Sure, because of money I can’t go out and get a weight set or join a gym right away, but running is free and so is the ‘fitness center’ ( ha, nothing but a room with a couple treadmills) at my girlfriend’s apartment complex. So here’s the deal: I always start these things with the best intentions but have some trouble holding my feet to the fire. So since me and my girlfriend are expecting a baby in mid-June, I’ll use that as a deadline. I’ve decided that I will run for 5 hours every week until the end of June, after each session I will write about it, keeping track of my progress and what I eat, and every week I will post a picture to keep me motivated. At the end of June I’ll post a before and after picture and hopefully see some real results.
27 weeks, 135 hours of running, eating healthy and feeling great.
And here we go.