Troy’s BodyBlog

So, the guy on the 12-week transformation videos said to go, right now, and take your picture with your shirt off.  I thought "yeah, that will serve as a mild motivator."  I had no idea that I looked like that!  It literally made me sick to my stomach, which makes it easier to be satisfied with meal 4 of 6 (actually, it’s only SlimFast).  I’m not even going to post it up right now - I would lose so many friends!  I’m not sure how often to take pictures, but I bet that I’ll see some change within weeks.  Seriously, it was Biggest Loser Before Pictures sick!

I’m just about to start a 12-week transformation.  I’ve actually completed a pretty good transformation in the past, but it was really more about losing lbs. than it was about changing my bodyfat/muscle ratio.  I had dropped some 40 lbs. last year, but a lot of it was muscle - I still looked like a smaller fat person.  Since then, I have gained back 26 of the lbs.  I became very sick and required surgery.  It took a long time to get a clearance to go back to the gym, but I was so weak that I got discouraged and really became quite lazy.  Now, I have never been so committed.  I am about to start a new school year AND a new lifestyle - one that incorporates all aspects of a healthy lifestyle so that I can have THE healthy life.  I will be watching the bodyfat percentage more than I will be watching the scale; that will allow me, in my mind, to lift hard, eat the calories that I need, and to drink the water that I need.  Before, I would starve myself before a weigh day which, as we all know, would lead me to binge the following meal.  I know, I know; that’s so unhealthy.