hpgilmore’s BodyBlog

So I am sitting at my desk minding my own business when I get a email. Mandatory company white water rafting trip. First I am like Great! Its going to be a blast. Then I realized that I had almost completely stopped working out and my diet had been hit and miss at best. Here I am going to be standing in front of my co-workers in all my fat glory. It hit me then. I may only have 4 weeks to do something in and I may not be ripped with a nice six pack. But I can make myself a little leaner and at least not be sore about it. 1 week into trying to loss weight and I step on the scale 5 pounds gone. I have only worked out once. This is just from following my diet better. Its nice to see a big drop off so little work. Now I can’t wait to step it up and see if i can double that number. If I can get another 20-30 pounds of fat off by the time of the rafting trip I will be ecstatic. Who would of thought being seen in front of your co-workers could make you want to be fit so bad.

I have finally complete a week of consistantly going to the gym. I might not have got any cardio in. I might have took it easy on friday. But I havn’t been this sore and felt this good in a few years. As long as I can keep this up I think I will be on the path to the body I want. I have a decent work out down now. I am probably going to have to go to the gym after work to get cardio in or go and run after work. I don’t think I can wake up any earlier. I hear it takes 5 weeks to develop a habit. Four more weeks to go and I will be solid on going to the gym consistantly.

I had a wierd moment yesterday. I was at my God-Mothers house and she had some donuts. No I have said before at my God-Mothers house she has this effortless way of having me break my diet. Next thing I know I am on my THIRD donut. I ended up get so sick having such a headache. I ran a fever. All over having some donuts and breaking my diet. Now I feel like its back to the drawing board. Thats ok though I plan on making up for it with a hard gym work out tonight. Its wieghts today, then cardio tomorrow and then a actual planned break of my diet for the fight tomorrow night. Rest on Sunday and on Monday when I go back over to my God-Mothers. I will now know to avoid the donuts. At least she keeps lots of tuna in the cabinet.

I finnaly got back in the gym yesterday. I realized that I don’t get very much work done in the last hours I am at work and I am just wasting my time that I could be getting better. Its nice to get back in the gym and workout but I am feeling it today. I talked with one of my coworkers and he belongs to the same gym so we are going to start going during lunch. That will help out alot because he is a great motivator and has similar goals for this summer. Well almost similar he doesn’t need to cut nearly as much as I have to.  Hopefully by the my anniversary I will look close to what I want to be like.

This is what I get for blowing my diet royally. I am sick week and shaking. I spent the whole night tossing and turning, sweating and cramping. Geez next year for my birthday I am gonna have to have a birthday salad. I have had hang overs that were nicer than this. Well back on the diet with a vengence and thank God I have found time to get to the gym. I can make up for lost time and I won’t blow a diet like this ever again.

You know I thought to myself It would be ok to break my diet for my birthday. I also thought that since I had been on it for the last two weeks it would be good for a change. I decided I would give my self a cheat day for my bday. Somehow I decided that the instead of just saterday though I could do a thursday thru sunday cheat "day". I think the scale is my savior here it is saterday and I weigh myself and see I am 5 pounds heavier. Oh S**T! Ok everyones already coming to my birthday get together. I guess today will be it. Tommorrow its straight back on the diet and to the gym. No matter what I have complained about before about not finding time to get to the gym I will have to do it now because I am mortified about those FIVE pounds. What a way to spend your birthday obsessing over your diet. Oh well at least I look real good for next years birthday.

I have been on a low carb diet for nearly two weeks. Time for change up. One thing I have noticed is my body can easily adapt to any thing I though at it so I have to change things up suddenly and often. Luckly for me my body is a follower and my mind is a perfect leader. That being said I can have my body following one work out and diet regime but my mind planning the next phase of my plan. So far it has worked great I have been able to shed nearly 40 pounds of fat. My co-workers and close family memebers have seen a noticable differance in my attitude and my body since I started my work out and I am very proud of it. I have along way to go in just reaching my weight loss goal, not to mention my overall goals. But it is nice to have my co-workers come to me and ask questions about what my diet is and what my work out routine is like so they can get such results. I will have to get my camera fixed so that I can show my new progress pictures. I want to thank everyone at bodybuilding.com for giving me hope and inspiration again that I wouldn’t be another big guy.

This is on related to working out but man it cause me so much stress I nearly ruined my diet. I went to renew my car insurance and try and get a lower payment yesterday because I previously had a suspended licence 6 months ago. They pull my driving record and it says it still suspended. I am like that can’t be. Well I had got a fix-it ticket while my licence was suspended and because the address I have on file is not the address I live at I didn’t get any information on the ticket. So I call the court house and I am like well how much do I owe or what do I have to do. They saw I have a warrent for my arrest and I need to come down to the court house to get things straightened out. I am now worried, I tell my boss whats up and have my wife come pick me up to take me over to the court. I get there and they tell me " your warrent has been cleared, your new court date is may 30th" I say thats it and the clerk told me yep the judge will give you a fine then and thats about it. Crazy how a simple thing like that can really through your day off.

So I switched to a low carb diet. Well damn near no carbs actually. So Far the results are good I am down another ten pounds in a bout a two weeks time. I thought this diet would have been easy but it sure is hell gave me a shock. I switched supplements to universal animal cuts and I love it. As soon as I switch I noticed I was burning and .8 pounds a day. Now if I could only find time to go to the gym I will be on track for my goals.

I promised myself I could only have cheat day once every two weeks. If I am gonna make that work I just discovered that I will not be able to go to my god mothers house. I love her but she always has to feed me when I come over and her cooking, while good, is not the best for my diet. I can’t easily say no to her either because she gets offended and she is a big help in my life. I don’t know what I am going to do. I have tried just making a smaller plate but now that she knows I am going to make a smaller plate she will make my plate for me and I am stuck with lots of rice and very fatty foods. Its to the point were if I know I have to go over there that just has to be my cheat day. I don’t want to be rude but I can’t just come by once every two weeks my wife and brother are there everyday.