The word Apolcalypse comes to us from the Greek word - apokálypsis. One of the meanings from the dictionary is - any universal or widespread destruction or disaster.
Now that we have had our English lesson for the day, let's take a look at what day 4 had in store for me!
Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Bowl & Banana
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Lean Cuisine Turkey and Sweet Potatoes (most unappealing and not filling at all) & chocolate pudding cup
Snack: Baby Carrots
Dinner: Sweet & Sour Chicken w/ Fried Rice and Egg Roll (I assure you it was delicious)
Snack: Gatorade Recovery (post workout)
My workout today was Week 1 Day 4 of Inferno Standard from www.workoutbox.com
Today's workout consisted of 24 minutes of interval cardio. Basically every 2 minutes I increased the speed I was running and every 3rd 2 minute interval I decreased the speed. At the end of the run I am certain I felt my soul begin to leave my body until the time finally ran out and I got a break! It was intense!
For strength it was all about legs. Legs, legs and more legs. Squats, dumbell squats, leg press, lunges. Then they did a work over on my biceps. Finally we move on to what Travis Steffen calls "Ab Apocalypse". If you recall my prior definition, nothing could be more true. My abs were destroyed and I felt like I wanted to hurl when I was finished! :-) The only positive spin was that I didn't have to do bicycle or Iron Cross crunches! All in all about a 1 hour and 45 min workout!
As for the Chinese food....let me explain. 1, my lunch was bogus and should not even be counted. Meanwhile I avoided Pizza Hut that my boss ordered for everyone this afternoon and stuck to my turkey and potatoes from LC. 2, I had 30 points left over for the day on WW and instead of ordering WHOLE portions as usual, I only got the dinner portion for both Mac and me and I declined any crab rangoon. I still have all my bonus points in tact along with about 25 activity points...so I'm very much on target with my diet where WW is concerned! Sometimes you have to indulge to succeed!
Meanwhile at the gym we saw the return of sequin gym bag boy.....it just fascinates me. LOL.
Well my arms and legs are about to fall off and it is nearly 2am, I must get some sleep! I get 3 days off from the gym and I can't wait!!! I'll still be blogging my diet and other anecdotes so stay tuned, day 5 begins soon.
Until then kids....
The one and only,
K
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Swimming pool...hot tub...steam room. In that order!
Day 3 was a nice relaxing day, I was off work today! Here's the breakdown:
Breakfast: Chocolate-Peanut Butter/Banana Smoothie (Weight Watchers Recipe)
Snack: Banana
Lunch: Turkey Burger w/ fries (had a great lunch with my gal pal Tonya!!)
Dinner: Cobb Salad (Weight Watchers Recipe) & Turkey Sandwich
Snack: Weight Watchers Ice Cream Sandwich (Post Workout)
Todays Workout was Week 1 Day 3 - Inferno Standard from www.workoutbox.com
All I had to accomplish in today's workout was to burn 270 calories! I spent 30 minutes doing laps in the pool! It was very nice! I then soaked in the hot tub for 10 minutes followed by 10 minutes in the Steam Room! My sore muscles were very grateful! Tomorrow I round out day 4 of my Week 1 workouts and then 3 days off!!! :-)
I had to pick up Mac from work today (for those that don't know he is a Store Mgr for Starbucks). While standing in the lobby waiting, I was highly tempted to order a Grande Salted Carmel Hot Chocolate, seeing as it was cold outside! I resisted, TWICE! But it sounded sooooo good! Trust me when I say it took a great amount of will power! Later in the evening, Colene had to remind me of how tasty the Sonic Peanut Butter shakes are....grrrrr....those are my FAVORITE! I just keep remembering all of the hard work I've put in the past few days and don't want to ruin it with a milkshake!!
That's pretty much all for today, nothing terribly exciting, but sometimes less excitement is a good thing! Tomorrow is a new day and day 4! Bring it!
Until then kids...
The one and only,
K
Breakfast: Chocolate-Peanut Butter/Banana Smoothie (Weight Watchers Recipe)
Snack: Banana
Lunch: Turkey Burger w/ fries (had a great lunch with my gal pal Tonya!!)
Dinner: Cobb Salad (Weight Watchers Recipe) & Turkey Sandwich
Snack: Weight Watchers Ice Cream Sandwich (Post Workout)
Todays Workout was Week 1 Day 3 - Inferno Standard from www.workoutbox.com
All I had to accomplish in today's workout was to burn 270 calories! I spent 30 minutes doing laps in the pool! It was very nice! I then soaked in the hot tub for 10 minutes followed by 10 minutes in the Steam Room! My sore muscles were very grateful! Tomorrow I round out day 4 of my Week 1 workouts and then 3 days off!!! :-)
I had to pick up Mac from work today (for those that don't know he is a Store Mgr for Starbucks). While standing in the lobby waiting, I was highly tempted to order a Grande Salted Carmel Hot Chocolate, seeing as it was cold outside! I resisted, TWICE! But it sounded sooooo good! Trust me when I say it took a great amount of will power! Later in the evening, Colene had to remind me of how tasty the Sonic Peanut Butter shakes are....grrrrr....those are my FAVORITE! I just keep remembering all of the hard work I've put in the past few days and don't want to ruin it with a milkshake!!
That's pretty much all for today, nothing terribly exciting, but sometimes less excitement is a good thing! Tomorrow is a new day and day 4! Bring it!
Until then kids...
The one and only,
K
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Day 2 - Ladder Runs, Weighted Crunches and....Sequin gym bags?
End of day 2 and I am feeling it! Here's a break down of my day:
Breakfast: 2 Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Patties, 2 Eggo Nutrigrain Waffles w/ Splenda
Snack: Banana
Lunch: 9 Slices of Oscar Meyer Thin Sliced turkey w/ 1 slice of Kraft Cheese and mustard on a Bagel Thin w/ 1 single serving of Garden Salsa Sun Chips
Dinner: 2 small lean, baked pork chops (Weight Watchers recipe) steamed broccoli and dinner rolls
Snack: Chocolate-Peanut Butter & Banana shake (post workout) - A DELICIOUS Weight Watchers Recipe, a definite must try!
My workout was Week 1 Day 2 of Inferno Standard from www.workoutbox.com
Today's workout began with 2 miles of cardio. Seems simple enough on the surface....however, every 1/2 mile I had to increase the speed. Not trying to "phone it in" as my ex-friend Jillian Michaels used to say, I started at 5.0 and ended at 7.0 mph. Suffice it to say that the other people in the gym thought I either was dying or overly dramatic. Maybe a little of both? :-) Then after some intense arm, chest and shoulder workouts we get to abs. My absolute LEAST favorite of exercises. Today they introduced "weighted" crunches....where you hold a weighted medicine ball over your head and do standard crunches for 40 seconds, twice. Oh-my-stars! This followed by 80 seconds of regular crunches and 25 seconds of alternating Supermans, repeated once. My abs are screamin!! I feel great though...While these workouts are pretty tough...they are no Julie J workouts! LOL. Julie, if you are reading this...I do miss our torture sessions together! You really were an awesome trainer, and are a great friend! (Hey atleast I'm eating more than Special K for breakfast! LOL)
As I was leaving the gym, I was walking down the stairs to the locker room and a young guy was walking up past me. He was probably early 20's, reasonably good looking, very fit, jock-type guy. Well, if you know me, you know I did the double take look back as he passed (well!)...I see that he is wearing a decked out, sequin bedazzled gym bag!! HUH? Really? Hey girl...! LOL. If you can make it work....work it is all I can say! :-)
I was talking to my gal pal Colene today and telling her that while doing my grocery shopping today I saw a lady who was extremely obese (325-350)...she should have been in a scooter, but instead she was hunched over her cart stuffed with bacon, pizza and hostess snacks, trudgin along in the Wal-Mart. I feel for you ma'am, because I know all that weight can't be easy to carry....but ma'am, a word if I may......PUT DOWN THE F'N BACON. I'm just sayin......she actually gave me additional motivation to keep doing what I'm doing....I refuse to be her in 5 years.
Well, that is all I have for day 2. Things are going well and I feel really good about this. I've gotten a great response from everyone and had over 70 views in the past 2 days on my posts!! Keep it up everyone...share with as many people as you can, you can never have enough support!!! :-)
Tomorrow is a new day and day 3! Bring it on. Until then kids....
The one and only,
K
Breakfast: 2 Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Patties, 2 Eggo Nutrigrain Waffles w/ Splenda
Snack: Banana
Lunch: 9 Slices of Oscar Meyer Thin Sliced turkey w/ 1 slice of Kraft Cheese and mustard on a Bagel Thin w/ 1 single serving of Garden Salsa Sun Chips
Dinner: 2 small lean, baked pork chops (Weight Watchers recipe) steamed broccoli and dinner rolls
Snack: Chocolate-Peanut Butter & Banana shake (post workout) - A DELICIOUS Weight Watchers Recipe, a definite must try!
My workout was Week 1 Day 2 of Inferno Standard from www.workoutbox.com
Today's workout began with 2 miles of cardio. Seems simple enough on the surface....however, every 1/2 mile I had to increase the speed. Not trying to "phone it in" as my ex-friend Jillian Michaels used to say, I started at 5.0 and ended at 7.0 mph. Suffice it to say that the other people in the gym thought I either was dying or overly dramatic. Maybe a little of both? :-) Then after some intense arm, chest and shoulder workouts we get to abs. My absolute LEAST favorite of exercises. Today they introduced "weighted" crunches....where you hold a weighted medicine ball over your head and do standard crunches for 40 seconds, twice. Oh-my-stars! This followed by 80 seconds of regular crunches and 25 seconds of alternating Supermans, repeated once. My abs are screamin!! I feel great though...While these workouts are pretty tough...they are no Julie J workouts! LOL. Julie, if you are reading this...I do miss our torture sessions together! You really were an awesome trainer, and are a great friend! (Hey atleast I'm eating more than Special K for breakfast! LOL)
As I was leaving the gym, I was walking down the stairs to the locker room and a young guy was walking up past me. He was probably early 20's, reasonably good looking, very fit, jock-type guy. Well, if you know me, you know I did the double take look back as he passed (well!)...I see that he is wearing a decked out, sequin bedazzled gym bag!! HUH? Really? Hey girl...! LOL. If you can make it work....work it is all I can say! :-)
I was talking to my gal pal Colene today and telling her that while doing my grocery shopping today I saw a lady who was extremely obese (325-350)...she should have been in a scooter, but instead she was hunched over her cart stuffed with bacon, pizza and hostess snacks, trudgin along in the Wal-Mart. I feel for you ma'am, because I know all that weight can't be easy to carry....but ma'am, a word if I may......PUT DOWN THE F'N BACON. I'm just sayin......she actually gave me additional motivation to keep doing what I'm doing....I refuse to be her in 5 years.
Well, that is all I have for day 2. Things are going well and I feel really good about this. I've gotten a great response from everyone and had over 70 views in the past 2 days on my posts!! Keep it up everyone...share with as many people as you can, you can never have enough support!!! :-)
Tomorrow is a new day and day 3! Bring it on. Until then kids....
The one and only,
K
Monday, November 14, 2011
Day 1 & My Inspiration...
Well my first day is officially over! I just finished my workout and am slightly close to death. LOL. Here's a breakdown of my day:
Starting Weight: 205.6
Breakfast: 1 Bagel Thin, 1 Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Patty and 1 Banana
Snack: 1 Apple
Lunch: 1 Healthy Choice Cheese Lobster Ravioli steamer, 20 Pepperidge Farm Baked Naturals Cheese Crisps
Snack: 1 1/2 cup blackberries
Dinner: Crazy Bowls and Wraps Chicken Teriyaki Bowl w/ white rice and steamed veggies and 3 Lobster Rangoon.
Snack: Fruit Smoothie (Post workout)
My workout routine comes from Workout Box - Inferno. You can check out this awesome site at www.workoutbox.com. Travis Steffan is a genius and they have so many different programs to fit your goals and body type, whether you want to workout at home or at a gym Workout Box has a program for you! Some programs are flat rate, and some are monthly charge (around $10). With each program you get personalized support, real time by real people! I HIGHLY reccommend it!
27 Minutes of Cardio followed by about 45 min of Strength training and ab workouts. WHEW!
I've also posted a picture (post workout) from Day 1. Note the frowney face....depicting the level of dissatisfaction I have when I look in the mirror. But that's all going to change and I can't wait!
Some people ask me where I have gotten my inspiration to do something so significant.
Enter Colmon and Colene.
Colmon and Colene are my brother and sister (from anotha mutha) and best friends of 20 years. Growing up, Colmon like myself was an overly proportinate child. For a good portion of his adult life as well. I don't know exactly how it happened, but one day I came home and Colmon was 100lbs thinner! He looked AMAZING! He did it all on his own through diet and exercise and sheer will. I thought....well now I look even fatter! Thanks Colmon! :-)
And then there is Colene. Colene was always a beautiful and attractive girl. She refers to herself as a young Tyra Banks (why tell her otherwise!) Colene got into a long term relationship and like so many of us before her, settled in not only to the relationship but to her body as well. As she puts it..."How come nobody told me I swoll up?" In all honesty when you are such close friends with someone, you don't really look at them physically or superficially, so it never really dawned on me. Colene like her brother took it upon herself to do something about it and started exercising and became VERY active in Bikram Yoga. I can't even say how much she has lost, but she too now looks AMAZING.
These two individuals, along with being my two bestest pals for 20 years have inspired me in more ways than one. I know that making such a drastic change is possible because they are living proof. And even though they would never tell me to my face....ya'll know I done swoll up a little too! LOL. Thank you both for being the trail blazers in the family and setting a precedent to encourage and motivate me to do better!
So that's day 1. Seems so miniscule when we're talking a lifetime...one day. But before you know it, day 1 will be day 30 and day 30 will be day 365, let's hope we are all for the better this time next year.
Bring on day 2, I'm ready!!! Until then...
The one and only,
K
Starting Weight: 205.6
Breakfast: 1 Bagel Thin, 1 Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Patty and 1 Banana
Snack: 1 Apple
Lunch: 1 Healthy Choice Cheese Lobster Ravioli steamer, 20 Pepperidge Farm Baked Naturals Cheese Crisps
Snack: 1 1/2 cup blackberries
Dinner: Crazy Bowls and Wraps Chicken Teriyaki Bowl w/ white rice and steamed veggies and 3 Lobster Rangoon.
Snack: Fruit Smoothie (Post workout)
My workout routine comes from Workout Box - Inferno. You can check out this awesome site at www.workoutbox.com. Travis Steffan is a genius and they have so many different programs to fit your goals and body type, whether you want to workout at home or at a gym Workout Box has a program for you! Some programs are flat rate, and some are monthly charge (around $10). With each program you get personalized support, real time by real people! I HIGHLY reccommend it!
27 Minutes of Cardio followed by about 45 min of Strength training and ab workouts. WHEW!
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| Day 1 (Post workout) :-( |
Some people ask me where I have gotten my inspiration to do something so significant.
Enter Colmon and Colene.
Colmon and Colene are my brother and sister (from anotha mutha) and best friends of 20 years. Growing up, Colmon like myself was an overly proportinate child. For a good portion of his adult life as well. I don't know exactly how it happened, but one day I came home and Colmon was 100lbs thinner! He looked AMAZING! He did it all on his own through diet and exercise and sheer will. I thought....well now I look even fatter! Thanks Colmon! :-)
And then there is Colene. Colene was always a beautiful and attractive girl. She refers to herself as a young Tyra Banks (why tell her otherwise!) Colene got into a long term relationship and like so many of us before her, settled in not only to the relationship but to her body as well. As she puts it..."How come nobody told me I swoll up?" In all honesty when you are such close friends with someone, you don't really look at them physically or superficially, so it never really dawned on me. Colene like her brother took it upon herself to do something about it and started exercising and became VERY active in Bikram Yoga. I can't even say how much she has lost, but she too now looks AMAZING.
These two individuals, along with being my two bestest pals for 20 years have inspired me in more ways than one. I know that making such a drastic change is possible because they are living proof. And even though they would never tell me to my face....ya'll know I done swoll up a little too! LOL. Thank you both for being the trail blazers in the family and setting a precedent to encourage and motivate me to do better!
So that's day 1. Seems so miniscule when we're talking a lifetime...one day. But before you know it, day 1 will be day 30 and day 30 will be day 365, let's hope we are all for the better this time next year.
Bring on day 2, I'm ready!!! Until then...
The one and only,
K
Sunday, November 13, 2011
The back story.......
So I'm sitting here in my room, looking out of the patio door, listening to the dull roar of the highway thinking about how to begin. The cliche is that you should alwasy start from the beginning. Well NO DUH genius! The question is exactly HOW to begin. Many of you who will be reading this already know everything about it and for those who don't, we would need a LifeTime made for TV movie in a 3 part series to get you caught up. :-)
So I will provide you with a brief back story and why I decided to start this blog, or better yet, revive an old idea.
I'm 32 (excuse me, I just threw up a little in my mouth) yes, 32! Much of my life I have been self concious of the way I look. I hated the fact that I was shorter than most people, when I was younger I had the dreaded "acne" face, in my earliest of years I wore the coke bottle style eyeglasses. Yes through the years I have been quite a sight for some to see. While I outgrew the glasses, got over the fact that I wasn't getting any taller and discovered face wash in my latter teen years for the acne, my weight was something that I always struggled with. They say weight can be genetic, LIES! My mom is skinny, my sister is skinny, both of my brothers are skinny, my dad was fat but got skinny. I had skinny ALL AROUND ME! Clothing was the worst though. I mean, imagine my self-esteem when my parents took me to Wal-Mart and bought me jeans in a size 16 (Husky). Please take a moment to laugh. For any of you who also endured the dreaded "Husky" clothing era, I empathize with you. For those who did not, you struggle to feel my humiliation. And it wasn't bad enough that the tag said it, but it was PRINTED on the leather patch of the jean. I might as well have worn a t-shirt that said "Caution: Fatty coming through!" Oh I chuckle at it now, but when you're 14 going into your first year of high school it's mortifying. Why didn't they have Spanx back then? (a great story about Spanx at a later date to come. Stay tuned!)
When I turned 19 I decided for various reasons that I would move to St. Louis, MO. I won't get into the details of why here (that's a whole other blog!) When I moved here I weighed in at a moderate 185-190 around that time, and while that doesn't seem dramatically overweight, to me, I might as well have weighed 400 pounds. I needed to do something to get skinny! Ironically one of my first jobs in St. Louis was a Front Desk Attendant at a local gym. Can you imagine...this young chubby kid trying to peddle a gym membership to folks? I could hear their thoughts..."Don't they give you a free membership?" "Instead of peddling this to me, you should be peddling that bike over there" Needless to say I was out of place.
Enter Julie.
Now Julie was a personal trainer at this gym. Some people called her Nazi. (Ok, I called her Nazi) because she was hardcore, but she knew how to get results. As an employee I got a discount on personal training, so I thought I'd take advantage of it. I asked Julie if she would train me and she agreed. Now I don't have the time or space to get into all the fun stories of me being trained (and believe me they are interesting!) but suffice it to say that Julie got results. I got down to 150lbs and a 31" waist. Would you believe at that point, I still thought I was fat? Never satisfied...
I felt amazing at 21 years old and 150lbs, heck I LOOKED amazing and finally I felt like I fit in with the other skinny, good looking people I had dreamed about being like.
Here I sit at 32, and let me tell you my age is lower than my waist size now!
So why the big push now, why does it mean so much for me to get in shape now? And why don't I just call Julie to train me into shape? Well for starters, ole Julie skipped off to Texas (thanks Jules! LOL)
And reasons as to why I want this now? I've wanted this my whole life, I've just never been able to achieve it permanently. I don't need to be 150 pounds again in fact I don't think I'd look that great at 150 pounds. I just want to be in shape and to look in the mirror and stop frowning at what I see. I want to be able to control my eating habits and not look like such a pig when I eat, always going back for thirds and fourths. I'm sick and tired of being fat, pudgy, thick, curvy, husky, chunky, heavy set, big boned, whatever you want to call it, I'm done with it!
So I made a declaration to myself. Starting Monday November 14, 2011 I will no longer accept being over weight. I am going to pour my time and energy into getting into shape no matter what. This blog is way for me to hold myself accountable and to build a little (or big) support group of friends and family who can encourage me to keep going when I don't want to keep going and who can celebrate with me when I achieve a victory. In this blog I will be up front, blunt and honest about my daily struggles, victories etc. I'll be sharing my weight, nutrition, work out routines and all the in between. Along the way you'll learn about many of my friends and family members as I relive moments from the past, for as they say we learn from history! I'm not saying it's going to be easy and that every day will be a victory, in fact I'll tell you up front it won't be, but at least we can endure it together and maybe get a few laughs along the way!
So that's it. Sorry we took a sort of long road to a short answer. I just realized that my blog application allows videos and photos too, so expect me to get creative and do some before and after shots along with some video blogging throughout the process. 2 years ago I issued myself a challenge to lose weight and I raised money to support a good cause. This time, I don't want a challenge because there is no deadline, there is no finish line, this time it's about changing my lifestyle for good, not just for a few weeks or months. Say goodbye to fatty mcfatterton.....he dies tonight.
Thank you all in advance for your support and encouragement, I hope you enjoy this blog. Please share it on Facebook or through email with your other friends or family members, the more support the better. And feel free to join me - if you are wanting to make a change for yourself, I'd be happy to support and encourage you too!
Tomorrow it all begins.......until then kids.
The one and only,
K
So I will provide you with a brief back story and why I decided to start this blog, or better yet, revive an old idea.
I'm 32 (excuse me, I just threw up a little in my mouth) yes, 32! Much of my life I have been self concious of the way I look. I hated the fact that I was shorter than most people, when I was younger I had the dreaded "acne" face, in my earliest of years I wore the coke bottle style eyeglasses. Yes through the years I have been quite a sight for some to see. While I outgrew the glasses, got over the fact that I wasn't getting any taller and discovered face wash in my latter teen years for the acne, my weight was something that I always struggled with. They say weight can be genetic, LIES! My mom is skinny, my sister is skinny, both of my brothers are skinny, my dad was fat but got skinny. I had skinny ALL AROUND ME! Clothing was the worst though. I mean, imagine my self-esteem when my parents took me to Wal-Mart and bought me jeans in a size 16 (Husky). Please take a moment to laugh. For any of you who also endured the dreaded "Husky" clothing era, I empathize with you. For those who did not, you struggle to feel my humiliation. And it wasn't bad enough that the tag said it, but it was PRINTED on the leather patch of the jean. I might as well have worn a t-shirt that said "Caution: Fatty coming through!" Oh I chuckle at it now, but when you're 14 going into your first year of high school it's mortifying. Why didn't they have Spanx back then? (a great story about Spanx at a later date to come. Stay tuned!)
When I turned 19 I decided for various reasons that I would move to St. Louis, MO. I won't get into the details of why here (that's a whole other blog!) When I moved here I weighed in at a moderate 185-190 around that time, and while that doesn't seem dramatically overweight, to me, I might as well have weighed 400 pounds. I needed to do something to get skinny! Ironically one of my first jobs in St. Louis was a Front Desk Attendant at a local gym. Can you imagine...this young chubby kid trying to peddle a gym membership to folks? I could hear their thoughts..."Don't they give you a free membership?" "Instead of peddling this to me, you should be peddling that bike over there" Needless to say I was out of place.
Enter Julie.
Now Julie was a personal trainer at this gym. Some people called her Nazi. (Ok, I called her Nazi) because she was hardcore, but she knew how to get results. As an employee I got a discount on personal training, so I thought I'd take advantage of it. I asked Julie if she would train me and she agreed. Now I don't have the time or space to get into all the fun stories of me being trained (and believe me they are interesting!) but suffice it to say that Julie got results. I got down to 150lbs and a 31" waist. Would you believe at that point, I still thought I was fat? Never satisfied...
I felt amazing at 21 years old and 150lbs, heck I LOOKED amazing and finally I felt like I fit in with the other skinny, good looking people I had dreamed about being like.
Here I sit at 32, and let me tell you my age is lower than my waist size now!
So why the big push now, why does it mean so much for me to get in shape now? And why don't I just call Julie to train me into shape? Well for starters, ole Julie skipped off to Texas (thanks Jules! LOL)
And reasons as to why I want this now? I've wanted this my whole life, I've just never been able to achieve it permanently. I don't need to be 150 pounds again in fact I don't think I'd look that great at 150 pounds. I just want to be in shape and to look in the mirror and stop frowning at what I see. I want to be able to control my eating habits and not look like such a pig when I eat, always going back for thirds and fourths. I'm sick and tired of being fat, pudgy, thick, curvy, husky, chunky, heavy set, big boned, whatever you want to call it, I'm done with it!
So I made a declaration to myself. Starting Monday November 14, 2011 I will no longer accept being over weight. I am going to pour my time and energy into getting into shape no matter what. This blog is way for me to hold myself accountable and to build a little (or big) support group of friends and family who can encourage me to keep going when I don't want to keep going and who can celebrate with me when I achieve a victory. In this blog I will be up front, blunt and honest about my daily struggles, victories etc. I'll be sharing my weight, nutrition, work out routines and all the in between. Along the way you'll learn about many of my friends and family members as I relive moments from the past, for as they say we learn from history! I'm not saying it's going to be easy and that every day will be a victory, in fact I'll tell you up front it won't be, but at least we can endure it together and maybe get a few laughs along the way!
So that's it. Sorry we took a sort of long road to a short answer. I just realized that my blog application allows videos and photos too, so expect me to get creative and do some before and after shots along with some video blogging throughout the process. 2 years ago I issued myself a challenge to lose weight and I raised money to support a good cause. This time, I don't want a challenge because there is no deadline, there is no finish line, this time it's about changing my lifestyle for good, not just for a few weeks or months. Say goodbye to fatty mcfatterton.....he dies tonight.
Thank you all in advance for your support and encouragement, I hope you enjoy this blog. Please share it on Facebook or through email with your other friends or family members, the more support the better. And feel free to join me - if you are wanting to make a change for yourself, I'd be happy to support and encourage you too!
Tomorrow it all begins.......until then kids.
The one and only,
K
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