Deandie’s BodyBlog

Time to take this thing to the next level.  I have had some great success over the past 6 to 7 months. I went to Maui, had a great time and for the first time in my life I was not self conscience on the beach or by the pool.  Ever since I got back however life has seamed to throw me one curve ball after another.

Kids being sick, wife being sick, me being sick, our basement flooding after a once in a 100 year rain, my company merging with another company and the possibility of losing my job, along with my mom having brain cancer, and nearly getting thrown in jail after being kicked out of a bar has all been in a 6 week period.  Enough is enough.

I have still maintained what I had before Hawaii. So that is my jumping off point for the next 6 weeks.  Six weeks of taking back my life and putting my fitness on the top of the list.  Six weeks puts me at Memorial Day and a couple of days at the track with my shirt off.  Lets to this!

Nutrition is going to be focus one,  I am a stress eater no more.  Prioritizing work outs even with me traveling 3 out of the next 6 weeks; I need at least 4 workouts a week with 3 of those being weights. 

I will do this.  I will be in the best shape of my life come June 1^st.  I plan on living the summer in the sun with my kids and my beautiful wife not worrying if somebody is thinking about my fat gut because it won’t be there. 

Well I’m leaving for Hawaii in 4 days and this is the most comfortable I have ever felt lying around on the beach with my shirt off.  I know I am not were I want to be but the fact that I have lost 15 lbs., down 7% body fat, and 5” off my waist (2 jeans sizes)makes me extremely happy.  I have gained muscle that I have never had before and the fact that I can see the muscles for a change is awesome.  I feel after I get back from Hawaii I will be even that much more motivated to continue my progress for the summer.  

This site and the people who are on it are an inspiration. I hope somewhere along the line I can do the same for someone else.

Aloha till March.

I know, a what? Five weeks is all I have until me and the Mrs. will be heading to Maui.  I have just come off a whole week of not lifting do to my Mom having surgery and traveling for Buisness.  I did however for the first time come off a roady like last week weighing less than when I left.  The beautiful thing about a company paying per diem while traveling is that you can eat very well and I usually do.  This time I ate well I just made better choices.

So today was the first day back in the gym lifting in 10 days.  To be honest I was jonesing the last couple of days for a workout.  Today was chest day, great workout!!!  I then ran for 23 minutes.  I am really seeing the difference, more so than I ever have.  My wife has been awsome in the encouragement she is given me and some extra attention.  I think I am starting to inspire her to kick up her workout routine as well. 

The biggest differenct this time around vs. other times I have tried to whip myself back into shape is this web site.  The people on the site are truely inspirational and motivating.  I think if I would have been at this stage in the past I would have let myself platuea not puching through and taking it to the next level.  I find myself craving more: more weight lifted, more wieght lost, more definition, more more more…  The people on this site push themselves to the best they can possibly be and it is obvious that everyone feeds off each other just like I am feeding off on these dedicated and hard working individuals.

Thank you all.  We will all accomplish whatever our goals are.

Wednesday is the day I hold myself accountable for the decisions I made for the week before.  Some Wednesdays I have to kick my ass and refocus and other I have to praise myself and remember what I did right that previous week to get me the positive results.  Today was a little of both.  

On the positive side:  I met my weight goal I set for myself at the beginning of the month and that was to be at 199 lbs by the end of November.  I weighed in this morning at 198.  That is saying a lot considering I left for my family’s Thanksgiving last Wednesday night weighing in at 200 lbs and then came back home from Thanksgiving last Saturday weighting 203. That was a 5 lb swing in 5 days.  Obviously a lot of the weight gain was water.  

On the negative side was a lack of progress on my muscle measurements.  This comes at no surprise to me due to the fact we were traveling until Saturday for Thanksgiving and then everyone in my house including me gets a horrible cold.  That basically kept me out of the gym for a week.  I got to the gym this morning however and had a great workout.   

In summary I need to stay focused on my clean eating (except for my cheat meals this weekend) and hit the gym hard for the next 3 days.  I’m meeting my boss at the Colts game Sunday so that day is out and then he and I will be working together for a couple of days after that so I won’t get to the gym Sun-Tues.  Any who you can only do what you are capable of and try to make up for it in other ways.  

On another note:  I have noticed some of the outrage towards one of the members that posted pictures that were not in good judgment to say the least.  This is my 1 cent worth because I honestly feel it doesn’t deserve the other penny.  Lets let the moderators of the site do their job.  Help them by alerting them to the situation but ultimately let them do their jobs.  I think they do a pretty good job of drawing a line on questionable material. I understand that the pictures make you uncomfortable, then don’t look at them.  To call somebody names because of it is ridiculous.  To call somebody “an embarrassment” when your own pics have you displayed in little more than a band aid and dental floss is also ridiculous.  If you want the moral high ground start with your own pics not pointing a finger at somebody else’s.  Save us the righteous indignation and false outrage and keep changing your avatar pic every 15 minutes to keep you in the top 6. 

Finally the holiday weedend is over.  I need to switch back to my pre holiday mentality.  I climbed on the scale yesturday and to my surprise I was only 3 lbs heavier.  I am convinced that at least 2 of those pounds are water retention pounds due to all of the salty Thanksgiving foods.  I need to get to the back side of 200 lbs by Saturday, this is going to take some extremely clean eating and some extra time on the tread mill.  I know I can get there.

I take my measurements every Wednesday, I have been dreading taking the measurements today due to the fact that I had gained a pound over the last week so I thought for sure I had slipped backwards.   

I had a poor weekend of eating and drinking,  especially the drinking.  I took a guys weekend to Northern Indiana to take in the Notre Dame game.  By the time I got home and put myself on the scale Monday morning was 3 pounds heavier than when I left.  I was extremely upset with myself.  My wife reminded me that I needed to get back to eating clean, get back in the gym, and let things work themselves out.  She was right, I got back on the program that I was seeing success with before and was able to shed a couple of pounds in a couple days and yet still saw good gains/losses in my measurments.  Sure they weren’t at the same rate as the previous 2 weeks but they were positive none the less.

So I guess I need to keep striving for gains but forgiving myself when those gains aren’t as good as I want them to be.  The thing that was different about this weekend verses normal weekends like this is I was conscious of what I was putting into my body.  I didn’t deprive myself but I definately made some concessions when it came to portions.

I’m already gearing up for this next week of extra clean eating, especially knowing the start of my following week is going to be Thanksgiving. 

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