dbyers41031’s BodyBlog

Well the past week was a challenge to make it the gym.  First off on Wednesday my babysitter could watch the kids early enough to make it to the gym before work which made me miss Wednesday’s workout.  Which I got in on Thursday, but Friday I had to show up into work early so I missed Friday’s workout… Which I had anticipated and worked harder on Thursday, I managed to almost hit 200lbs at the start of the week and got it back down to 190lbs.  This weekend so far has been bad for my diet… I have had two half gallons of Oreo ice cream along with a Chinese buffet and Mexican food so far this weekend… I am okay not to exceed my calories during the week but then the weekend comes and I screw everything up!  It’s about time for me to get back to my super intense self and get down to 160-170lbs and be happy there!  Well in the morning will be the moment of truth as to how bad i messed up this weekend!

Today was an off day at the gym so nothing to report in that area… As far as eating went I had two peanut butter sandwiches for lunch around 1( got up at 10:30)  than had a early dinner with my wife at Max and Erma’s… I had the pulled pork and seasoned fries… than at work I munched on some all natural almonds and had a brownie when I got home… Needless to say I really need to fine tune my diet…  I won’t be able to make the gym tomorrow because my babysitter is busy so I’ll have to wait till Thursday to blast my back and biceps…  Then Friday I have to go to work early so that interrupts my Friday workout! Hopefully I am able to do some workouts on the fly and not depends some much on the free-weight’s this week! Wish me luck! I’ll be back tomorrow to report on my progress…

Well today I ate okay to an extent… I had some frosted mini wheat’s with 1% milk for breakfast which was at 1pm and then had a foot long sub from subway with two cookies for lunch just before work at 4… then an Oreo blizzard for dinner and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as a snack before bed… Now that I think about it, I didn’t really eat right at all!! I worked out chest shoulders and triceps today and worked 9 hours… so I am feeling pretty sore right about now! All I know is that I didn’t manage to eat enough calories today… I burned 1000 calories at the gym and only ate 2200… so with my bmr (1940) I am falling short by a few hundred calories!  I’ll try harder tomorrow to eat a little more appropriately!  todays weighin after a bad weekend is 199… almost made it back over the horrible 200lb mark!!!

Well the last week started out great.  I got to the gym Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then I missed Thursday,  but got in some intense games of basketball Friday with nothing real special during the weekend because basketball Friday really hurt my knees and back.  So I decided to take the weekend off. Much good that done, I couldn’t sit still the whole weekend I had to go out for a run Sunday night!  Put up a personal best and have decided that I will participate in a 5K that takes place on August 1^st.  I weighed in this morning and I managed to lose absolutely no weight.  Not to surprised about it though because my Thursday was prolly the worse day I have had in 3 years as far as diet goes!! I really messed up my week.  My new goal is to lose 10lbs by August 17^th.  My lowest weight in the last three years was 175lbs and I gained 15lbs back when I came back home.  Now it’s the hardest weight I ever had to lose.  I keep managing to have those days that ruin a week!!  I need to get back to my clean days when I was super strict on myself and only let myself have one cheat meal a week instead of a cheat day that turns into days… The good news this week is that I had an interview for a personal trainer job at a gym and they were very impressed with me and my story!  Hope all goes well! Time to step it up cause no one wants a trainer that can’t control their own weight!!

Only lost one pound in the last two weeks L which makes me upset!  But I can see where I messed up. I had a few weak moments while the holiday was going on and it made the difference between a big lost or gain…  I lost an inch off my stomach which is where I always gain or lose my weight…   Ready to kick it into gear for the next week and strive for more like a 3-4 pound loss for next week!  I am setting my one week goal! Let’s push this to the limit!! Ready to Do Work!! “Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.”  ~Barbara Ehrenreich Thanks for reading my rubbish! David

It’s been a while since I have posted a blog entry, so here it goes.  I’ve been stuck in the same spot for a while now. I got serious and lost the 15 pounds like I wanted from my last blog entry, but once I got there I stopped counting calories.  Here I am now! I am at 192 and uncomfortable.  I felt great at 180 and now have to start counting calories like a crazy person now.  Since I lost all my weight my life has went through some changes. I sold my old Iphone which had the application that really helped me lose weight, which was ifitness.  It counted my calories and told me how many calories I had left, and when I inputted the exercises that I done it recalculated my calories.  I also worked 12hr shifts with 4 breaks a day and always had a structured eating schedule.  Now that I am unemployed (perusing personal trainer certification) it is weird to figure a schedule out… not hard just weird I guess…  I thought that I could balance it out to keep myself at 180 but I am not as lucky as most people on this site that their bodies are fit so easy… I got to track my food as if it’s a full time job! Also have changed gyms from a state of art gym Urban Active to a rundown public gym that is over populated… I had to go from training in a circuit like workout to a Horizontal loading workout which takes up some much time…  Have to cause the moment I walk away from my bench or whatever I am using someone is there to take it or get in my way!!  Monday I was able to get all of my weights and set them around my bench and done my circuit without any trouble… Man I got a great sweat yesterday… It was pouring off me like crazy!!  It felt so great and I only had to tell someone once that I was using that equipment! Guess it was just a good day. But it is Time to get crackin!  I’ll get there and will manage it better from now on!! Just gets to be harder for me then most people! Let’s DO WORK!!

Having a good week this week, I’ve made it to the gym each day and had some real intense butt busting workouts!!  It’s been a while since I have posted my weight or measurement and for very good reason.  Since I have been off work, l’ve been BAD. I have ate like I use too, and what makes it worse is that I am knowledgeable enough to know better! It has not even been a month off work and I gained 8 pounds up until Monday. I was eating Oreo Ice cream by the half gallon, Mexican food for dinner when I had Mc Donald’s for lunch. I ate Chinese food when I only had a few calories left for the day. I quit counting calories, so if I didn’t know how many calories I had left then I wouldn’t feel guilty (even though I could feel the gluttony).  It has taken me a long time to get down from 260 pounds at 34% body fat to 190 at 10.9% Body fat. I believe that I am back on track.  I have decided to take part in a 5k sometime in the next couple of months (thanks to the biggest loser), after I get my time down a bit more! I’d like to run it in 24 minutes.  Also in only three days of getting back on track I’ve cut out that 8 pounds and shortly will be back at my 185 mark. Then to my 180 mark, which is there where I’ll decide to continue to lose or not! That is my dilemma. I don’t think I should be any smaller, but my doctor and nutritionist along with the biggest loser club all say I should weigh in at 129-169.  What the hell!! I’d feel like a shrimp!!!!! I think I’ll stop at 175 because I felt real comfortable in my own skin there and who knows where I’ll go from there!! Thanks for listening to my personal struggle of the month and I’m happy you spent some of your time with me, have a great day and go hard or go home! Right!!!

                I am so excited that I will actually be a personal trainer! I’ve been so many different directions so far in life. In high school I wanted to be an auto mechanic and went to school for it. It felt more like a chore then a means to achieve my goal of being a mechanic.  I dropped out and started to bounce around from job to job, being the kid that I was.  I have some great stories for it though, so I wouldn’t change a thing about it.  After growing up a little I started to work at a factory and now five years had pasted!!! Wow!  During the last three years I had a few life altering things happen. One was my father’s death (due to obesity) and my own weight trouble.  I was not knowledgeable at all on how to eat right or any idea of what to do in a gym!! I done tons of reading and slowly I plugged away to nice little weight loss.  During that time I started going back to school for sports management, which has failed because of financial reasons.  I had been thinking about personal training for a while and when I decided that was what I wanted, a new sense of peace has come over me.  I am pumped up for this and all my friends believe this fits me best. It should not be hard to notice that getting healthy was and is the biggest most important thing I was doing for myself in the last three years, and know I want to share it with everyone.  My wife so we can live a long life together so we can enjoy our grandchildren, unlike both of my parents,  My children to not be held back or experience the heartache and poor self-esteem that comes from being overweight.  And to anyone I encounter from day to day.  My father said that one of the best things I could do in life would be to love what I do for a living so I wouldn’t have to go to work and I am starting to realize what direction I need to go! I only wish my mother and father could be here to share in my excitement.

Last week I was very active, during my vacation.  I managed to burn 13,443 calories throughout the week.  I also was able to maintain my weight as well.  I tend to play a lot of basketball to get my cardio in and as of yesterday my ankle has started to hurt like crazy.  I didn’t step or land on it wrong to hurt it. Just woke up Tuesday morning and could barely walk on it. I couldn’t call into work sick because I had just been gone for a week and a half off for vacation, so I toughed it out.  I got to the gym tonight after work and don’t my back/bi’s. Then tried to run on the treadmill that was a no go, Then I tried the elliptical, that also was a no go. So I ended up just shooting basketball around to keep my heart rate up.  As of right now I am lying around the house with an ice pack on my ankle hoping it gets better.  I don’t want to take a break but I do believe my body is starting to force me.  I don’t believe I go a day without sometime being sore!! Must be doing something right huh?

Well it is Sunday and I have had a good week.  I took vacation from work, and with my schedule the way it is, I only used 44 hours to get two weeks off; which if wonderful.  Did not plan to go anywhere because funds are sort now days, but just wanted some me time and to just bust my butt at the gym.  I had a great workout Monday; where I had a workout the really beat up my chest and back.  Tuesday is usually an off day, but I played basketball, and because it is getting warmer I’ll do that more now instead of my running (just a tad bit more fun and time goes by quicker).  My intentions each week is to burn 5,000 to 7,000 calories and by Wednesday I was at 5,100.  I had a great shoulder and arms workout, which I have not had my traps hurt in a long time (cause I don’t usually hit them hard).  Thursday was my cardio day which I did run my 5 miles before I went to the park to play basketball.  Friday though was a horrible day, I woke up and my lower back was killing me; and I had a leg work out to do Friday.  I set up the squat rack to do my warm ups with 135 and I couldn’t even get down into a squat.  So I set up the smith machine and still with its assist, I couldn’t manage a squat.  I usually don’t work out until later in the day after I have loosened up, but I only had been awake for an hour at this point.  I decided that I’ll just leg press and just try to let my back rest, which I did but just don’t feel like it was a good workout.  Took a day off from playing basketball and went out with the wife to see a good movie.  Saturday I played more ball and it took my lower back something like two hours before it loosened up for me to be able to move around pain free on the court.  I don’t know what the deal is, but I hope it will stop hurting soon!!!  So for the week right now I have burned 12,000 calories and still have plans to play ball today! I can’t wait till Monday to get back in the gym to hit the weights again, I miss them!  I get this unbelievable high while I am tossing weight around. As if I am completely happy!! I believe friends think I am obsessed with the gym, but I have seen a quote on BB.com that I really liked. Its Obsessed is what the lazy call the dedicated!  Isn’t that just the greatest saying ever?  One more day and off to another good week.