Once every week I like to take the time to reflect on my journey thus far and then readjust my goals for the future as I see fit, you see when I started out I was an unhealthy and unhappy 198 pound guy at 5ft8. I was not "huge" by some standards but I felt the lack of energy and it felt like I was headed towards an unhealthy future. My wife at the time had started her journey and was losing weight and continues to do so at an impressive rate. I love her dearly and to see her get healthier brought a happiness to me and it got me to thinking as well that maybe its time I face the mirror and take stock of where I am and where I want to be.
So what I did (which was different from anytime prior) was to make small changes, eating better, making better choices (wife was a good help for this as she was doing the same already) and generally just doing my damndest to not indulge in self destructive eating. I admit that I did not always succeed but I did get right back on the horse if I did make a bad decision. I had dropped about 13 pounds in 1.5 mths. Not to bad I thought, then the wife wanted to get a gym membership, I gave it a little thought and said yes why not lets do it. I used to be a gym rat once, lets do it again. By this time she was doing really well with the weight loss and was looking happier and sexier (even though she won't admit it to herself yet). I supported her on it and will continue to do so. Anyhow back to my point.
I decided to find and conquer my weaknesses in order, the first was the cardio or as I used to say back in the day "mr. treadmill how I hate thee, the bane of my existence running" I came at it full force, running my short little legs off and barely getting a mile without wanting to die. I decided that I was the master of my body not the other way around. I kept at it, each time running further and a little faster. At the 1 month mark I was running about 3 miles consistently.
Once I had hit a mini personal goal I had another moment of mental clarity when running on a saturday morning in the gym the sound of weights clanking, the motor of the treadmills humming, I had retreated to my mental thoughts where I focus on my breathing and drown out all things around me, time almost seems to stand still here and I can really hone in on my thoughts. I felt a warriors scream inside me, an inner strength that I had lost and was finally breaking through to the surface, an animalistic aggression that I once used to tap into to push myself further, harder, and faster than my peers. It was not enough to simply get to my goals anymore but to surpass them and push it beyond what even I would expect. I had met the 'real me" so to speak and it was time to get reaquainted with this feeling. That day I pushed to to 5 miles run and over half my run on an incline.
When i got home that day I was pumped, I decided to find ways to push myself that would challenge me to surpass those old goals, and discovered HIIT or high intensity interval training, this helped me to surpass the old goals a new tool to help me be better. I also delved into the diet side as I knew I would need it to recover from workouts. I also got reaquainted with my old friend the weights, now I am onto metabolic resistance training, which is even more intense. I still enjoy my runs butI readily tap into that warrior side of me now and it gives me the strength needed to keep pushing.
I hope that you read this and find your "real you" as well all have that inner warrior waiting to break through and you can find it and tap into it, once you make the mental breakthrough that if the mind can conceive it the body can acheive it. You want to be slimmer? Why not make that slimmer + stronger, or hell surpass even that and slimmer, stronger and more confident you. Keep pushing you will hit that breakthrough and when you do, I want to hear you scream out *this next bit is a taken from my profile pic, insert whatever you like! ** I AM THE ALMIGHTY, FEAR THE FUZZY, FEAR IT!"
So what I did (which was different from anytime prior) was to make small changes, eating better, making better choices (wife was a good help for this as she was doing the same already) and generally just doing my damndest to not indulge in self destructive eating. I admit that I did not always succeed but I did get right back on the horse if I did make a bad decision. I had dropped about 13 pounds in 1.5 mths. Not to bad I thought, then the wife wanted to get a gym membership, I gave it a little thought and said yes why not lets do it. I used to be a gym rat once, lets do it again. By this time she was doing really well with the weight loss and was looking happier and sexier (even though she won't admit it to herself yet). I supported her on it and will continue to do so. Anyhow back to my point.
I decided to find and conquer my weaknesses in order, the first was the cardio or as I used to say back in the day "mr. treadmill how I hate thee, the bane of my existence running" I came at it full force, running my short little legs off and barely getting a mile without wanting to die. I decided that I was the master of my body not the other way around. I kept at it, each time running further and a little faster. At the 1 month mark I was running about 3 miles consistently.
Once I had hit a mini personal goal I had another moment of mental clarity when running on a saturday morning in the gym the sound of weights clanking, the motor of the treadmills humming, I had retreated to my mental thoughts where I focus on my breathing and drown out all things around me, time almost seems to stand still here and I can really hone in on my thoughts. I felt a warriors scream inside me, an inner strength that I had lost and was finally breaking through to the surface, an animalistic aggression that I once used to tap into to push myself further, harder, and faster than my peers. It was not enough to simply get to my goals anymore but to surpass them and push it beyond what even I would expect. I had met the 'real me" so to speak and it was time to get reaquainted with this feeling. That day I pushed to to 5 miles run and over half my run on an incline.
When i got home that day I was pumped, I decided to find ways to push myself that would challenge me to surpass those old goals, and discovered HIIT or high intensity interval training, this helped me to surpass the old goals a new tool to help me be better. I also delved into the diet side as I knew I would need it to recover from workouts. I also got reaquainted with my old friend the weights, now I am onto metabolic resistance training, which is even more intense. I still enjoy my runs butI readily tap into that warrior side of me now and it gives me the strength needed to keep pushing.
I hope that you read this and find your "real you" as well all have that inner warrior waiting to break through and you can find it and tap into it, once you make the mental breakthrough that if the mind can conceive it the body can acheive it. You want to be slimmer? Why not make that slimmer + stronger, or hell surpass even that and slimmer, stronger and more confident you. Keep pushing you will hit that breakthrough and when you do, I want to hear you scream out *this next bit is a taken from my profile pic, insert whatever you like! ** I AM THE ALMIGHTY, FEAR THE FUZZY, FEAR IT!"
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