So, I've been meaning to actually make a thread in here for a while. I know I have the photography one, but I haven't been taking pictures lately, and I need a blog of sorts because I'm bored and don't feel like posting stuff on Facebook.
I've lost 10lbs this month, I weighed 210lbs this morning, which is the lowest I've been in nearly a year. I got as high as 223lbs, which is the most I've weighed since 2006 when I was at 245lbs. For those that use KGs, 223lbs is 101 kg. That's ridiculously high for someone that's only 5'8". Part of my massive weight gain was due to the random drugs my doctors kept putting me on, which absolutely murdered my metabolism worse than it was already. The other part is that when I'm bored or feeling down, I tend to just eat whether I'm actually hungry or not.
So I've actually dedicated myself to going to the gym 5 days a week and doing an hour of cardio. I'm also eating better and limiting my caloric intake to 1,400 calories a day before exercising. That puts me on track to lose about 2lbs a week. I'm obviously losing more than that at the moment simply because of initial water weight loss. I thought about doing the south beach diet, but I honestly couldn't figure out how to force myself to nearly starve for two weeks to begin with. Plus, I'm at my parents house twice a week for dinner on Thursdays and lunch/dinner on Sundays, so keeping to SBD would have been more than a little difficult.
I'm the only one in my family at this point that's grossly overweight. My mom is only about 10-15lbs over what she should be, and my sister is about the same. My dad, after spending most the last two decades since leaving the military at around 200lbs (he's 5'9"), went onto Nutrisystem for dropped down to 145lbs. My brother has always been ridiculously skinny and has an absurdly high metabolism. So the only person in my immediate family that's overweight is my sister-in-law who hasn't lost any weight since she put on about 100lbs after her first pregnancy.
My goal weight is about 150-160lbs depending on muscle mass and such, as I'm planning on incorporating weights into my workout in the next few weeks as well. I basically am just tired of being the fat one and feeling crappy about myself all the time as a result.
My other goal is to start eating healthy and cooking. I used to cook all the time, but I've gotten really lazy again. So I'm gonna head to the store tonight after work and go get some chicken breasts and more veggies. My snacks are going from chips and sour cream dip to baby carrots and yogurt.
I want to be a good example to my son on how to be healthy. I don't want to be worn out all the time when I'm playing with him. I already have enough health problems between my bipolar, bad knee, chronic headaches, and persistent shoulder separation.
Anyway, I guess I just needed to get that out. I'll be using this thread for random shit as well, but also to keep myself motivated, along with being accountable to people, and the workout challenge threads around here.
I've lost 10lbs this month, I weighed 210lbs this morning, which is the lowest I've been in nearly a year. I got as high as 223lbs, which is the most I've weighed since 2006 when I was at 245lbs. For those that use KGs, 223lbs is 101 kg. That's ridiculously high for someone that's only 5'8". Part of my massive weight gain was due to the random drugs my doctors kept putting me on, which absolutely murdered my metabolism worse than it was already. The other part is that when I'm bored or feeling down, I tend to just eat whether I'm actually hungry or not.
So I've actually dedicated myself to going to the gym 5 days a week and doing an hour of cardio. I'm also eating better and limiting my caloric intake to 1,400 calories a day before exercising. That puts me on track to lose about 2lbs a week. I'm obviously losing more than that at the moment simply because of initial water weight loss. I thought about doing the south beach diet, but I honestly couldn't figure out how to force myself to nearly starve for two weeks to begin with. Plus, I'm at my parents house twice a week for dinner on Thursdays and lunch/dinner on Sundays, so keeping to SBD would have been more than a little difficult.
I'm the only one in my family at this point that's grossly overweight. My mom is only about 10-15lbs over what she should be, and my sister is about the same. My dad, after spending most the last two decades since leaving the military at around 200lbs (he's 5'9"), went onto Nutrisystem for dropped down to 145lbs. My brother has always been ridiculously skinny and has an absurdly high metabolism. So the only person in my immediate family that's overweight is my sister-in-law who hasn't lost any weight since she put on about 100lbs after her first pregnancy.
My goal weight is about 150-160lbs depending on muscle mass and such, as I'm planning on incorporating weights into my workout in the next few weeks as well. I basically am just tired of being the fat one and feeling crappy about myself all the time as a result.
My other goal is to start eating healthy and cooking. I used to cook all the time, but I've gotten really lazy again. So I'm gonna head to the store tonight after work and go get some chicken breasts and more veggies. My snacks are going from chips and sour cream dip to baby carrots and yogurt.
I want to be a good example to my son on how to be healthy. I don't want to be worn out all the time when I'm playing with him. I already have enough health problems between my bipolar, bad knee, chronic headaches, and persistent shoulder separation.
Anyway, I guess I just needed to get that out. I'll be using this thread for random shit as well, but also to keep myself motivated, along with being accountable to people, and the workout challenge threads around here.
