To be perfectly honest I'm not sure if there are any results yet. I'm really not one to weigh myself all the time, I just figure that if I'm losing weight I'll see some results in the mirror. Of course it is a little early to start seen anything major because I'm not on "The Biggest Loser", but I do feel a little better. I think my jeans are a little loser but in my mind that could be because I streched them out so much. Who know? My wife has said that she lost 4 pounds so that is something. If nothing else at least I know it is on our minds on a daily basis, we are always asking each other how we are going to workout that day.
We still have a lot of things to figure out as far as how we are going to get through each day without eating like crap but some ideas are coming into play. It is just a matter of doing it. Which is of course what it always comes down to isnt' it?
I think we are going to get there but it is going to be a slow process. I'm just hoping to see a couple results soon and hopefully grab onto a little more motivation from that. Success breeds success.
I turn 30 in a few months and I don't want to go into my thirties completely behind the eight ball so if I can do anything to kick start the next stage of my life now I'm going to do it. I think I need some sort of a challenge to kick my butt a little bit and hopefully make me stronger on the other end. And just the fact that I am thinking that makes me realize that I still have some fight in me. And that is good to feel.
For anyone out there that has ever struggled with weight and/or self image there are undoubtably moments that are more difficult then others. I personnally have come to despise it when people call me "big guy". My wife went through a situation today where some of her co-workers were a little harsh in what they said to her and how they said it. I felt for her at that moment, it is not easy to be brought face to face with the fact that you are not the person you once were or think you can be.
I have to admit I did not do a great job at making her feel better and maybe I should do better job at that in the future but I did point out that it is times like this that we have to cling to and remember in order to stay focused on the road ahead. When she got home from work she hit the road for her workout, which she says was not enough, but in time we will both work up to more challenges. I'm sure she was thinking about how great she will look in a few months.
Take it from me people, my wife is a knockout when she is at her best.
We both ate a decent dinner together, shout out to KFC grilled meals, but have to do a better job on the meal to meal process. It's not easy at all. I'm beginning to remember how much of a constant commitiment it was when I was in good shape several years ago. I never really thought about it all that much since then, however there really were a lot of things that I did not indulge in for a long while. We both have to start knocking some things off of our list of foods that we normally would consume.
All of that being said I feel that we are on the road to getting to where we want to be. The problem is we are still only a couple blocks from the house and it's all to easy to turn back. "Stay the course" right? It's all about how bad you want to get to where you are going and I know I want it bad, as does my wife. We will get there. Hopefully tomorrow we can be better then we were today.
1 1=3
Rob
So yesterday it's about 5 in the evening both my wife and I are doing pretty well with how we are eating so far in the day. Frankly everything seems to be going good and I'm personally happy with the fact that I was in the middle of my workout and looking forward to my protein shake. Then it all fell apart.
I don't know how many of you are from Latin families but eating correctly in my family is not an easy task. Yesterday, as I was in between sets I see my mother in law drive up with a car full of food and shortly after that, company coming over for dinner. I had no idea this was going to happen yesterday, but I suppose I should have been prepared for it because it is not like it's an unordinary thing.
An hour later the beer is flowing and the rice and beans are being piled on everyone's plate. I did my best to refrain but its not easy when the mantra of the family is "Eat, eat more". Now we really didn't eat that much but we did have a couple beers, which is okay every once in a while but I sure don't want to get in the habit of doing it.
At least we came out of yesterday knowing that we are working out again but we still have to figure out how to side step the big family meal, which as I said happens pretty often around here. Today is another day and another challenge. We will see what happens.
By the way I did want to mention how much we are trying to lose just so you have some idea of how we have been doing. I'm looking to drop about 75 - 90 pounds. If I do that I'll be in about as good of shape as I have ever been. My wife hopes to lose about 40. It's a road we are on together that will hopefully bring us a little closer and help us to show our kids how to be active. Currently they are still too young to even remember us being overweight so it would be great if when they get older they can look at pictures of us now and not believe we were ever that big.
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