I tried a log last July and it quickly fizzled out as the proverbial shit hit the fan in my life. Since then I've stabilized everything, got rid of an extremely negative girlfriend, and am kicking ass at my new school.
So without further adieu, here's an introduction to the turning point of my young adult life.
In May my sister is graduating from college, and I'll be traveling up to Boston for it. By then I'm hoping to be leaner and < 200 lbs. I want to show up and have my sister, my extended family, and everyone else I know do a double take as I've begun to transform myself into someone physically different.
Growing up as a child I was always the lanky, skinny, and awkward kid everyone had in their elementary school class. As puberty began to hit, my body began to react extremely quickly. I began to grow into my size at a rapid pace ( 5'10", 200+ lbs by age 12) and have never been in a relatively "healthy" looking shape at any point of my teen-to-now adult life. Being active was never the problem as I've always been active and played some type of sport ever since I can remember. My senior year of high school I got into a psuedo workout regimen and lost 45 pounds of mostly muscle and water weight as my diet and eating habits were generally terrible.
But coming into this new year many things have changed for me. I got out of a year long and dead-end relationship last October, I've moved to a new city and am going to a new college, and I've hit an all time high in regards to my weight/bf ratio (Read: 240 31.7% bf according to a Tanita scale) . The big eye opening moment for me was about two weeks ago when I got out of the shower and was drying off in front of the mirror. I looked at myself, did a double take, and started to feel emotionally sick from what I saw. Staring back at me was a 20 year old college student with a gut, a double chin, and a fat face that was doing nothing but going through a life as a glutton, while his peers were enjoying their college lives.
So I took action. Immediately. I have begun to get my diet down to a routine, I've decided to go on a Monday-Friday Max-OT program, and am going to be doing low-intensity cardio six-seven days a week. In my next post I'm going to put up some pictures I took tonight, and will take new pictures every two weeks. I'm not going to weigh myself but once a month as I believe that weight loss on a short term fluctuates too much to gauge accurately. If I'm seeing a solid 8+ pounds a month every time I weigh in, that's only going to be more fuel to my inspirational fire. Also in my next post I'll put up my projected workout regimen and my diet information.
So I'll close this introduction to the start of a healthy rest of my life with one of my favorite poems. Ever since I decided to change these things about myself and my life, I've printed this poem out and put it on every mirror I own. Hopefully it has the same effect on you as it does me.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn't your father or mother or wife,
Who judgment upon you must pass;
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one starring back from the glass.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest.
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed the most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years.
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be the heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.
So without further adieu, here's an introduction to the turning point of my young adult life.
In May my sister is graduating from college, and I'll be traveling up to Boston for it. By then I'm hoping to be leaner and < 200 lbs. I want to show up and have my sister, my extended family, and everyone else I know do a double take as I've begun to transform myself into someone physically different.
Growing up as a child I was always the lanky, skinny, and awkward kid everyone had in their elementary school class. As puberty began to hit, my body began to react extremely quickly. I began to grow into my size at a rapid pace ( 5'10", 200+ lbs by age 12) and have never been in a relatively "healthy" looking shape at any point of my teen-to-now adult life. Being active was never the problem as I've always been active and played some type of sport ever since I can remember. My senior year of high school I got into a psuedo workout regimen and lost 45 pounds of mostly muscle and water weight as my diet and eating habits were generally terrible.
But coming into this new year many things have changed for me. I got out of a year long and dead-end relationship last October, I've moved to a new city and am going to a new college, and I've hit an all time high in regards to my weight/bf ratio (Read: 240 31.7% bf according to a Tanita scale) . The big eye opening moment for me was about two weeks ago when I got out of the shower and was drying off in front of the mirror. I looked at myself, did a double take, and started to feel emotionally sick from what I saw. Staring back at me was a 20 year old college student with a gut, a double chin, and a fat face that was doing nothing but going through a life as a glutton, while his peers were enjoying their college lives.
So I took action. Immediately. I have begun to get my diet down to a routine, I've decided to go on a Monday-Friday Max-OT program, and am going to be doing low-intensity cardio six-seven days a week. In my next post I'm going to put up some pictures I took tonight, and will take new pictures every two weeks. I'm not going to weigh myself but once a month as I believe that weight loss on a short term fluctuates too much to gauge accurately. If I'm seeing a solid 8+ pounds a month every time I weigh in, that's only going to be more fuel to my inspirational fire. Also in my next post I'll put up my projected workout regimen and my diet information.
So I'll close this introduction to the start of a healthy rest of my life with one of my favorite poems. Ever since I decided to change these things about myself and my life, I've printed this poem out and put it on every mirror I own. Hopefully it has the same effect on you as it does me.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn't your father or mother or wife,
Who judgment upon you must pass;
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one starring back from the glass.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest.
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed the most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years.
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be the heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.
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