update

i forgot to update this the other day so while i have a few minutes i will. I have been going to the gym every day before work and getting a solid 30 minutes of good cardio in. I have been staying with the weight watchers and the detox also. I feel great and hope for a good number this week! I'll update again hopefully in a couple days. Just wanted to give a brief update on how I am feeling while doing this. :)

End of Week 1

So I rode my bike most of the week in the morning before work. I used our treadmill on Saturday morning rather than ride my bike. I wasn't sure how I would do, because over the weekend I splurged a couple of times and had 2 pieces of carrot cake with frosting. So I thought for sure I was going to undo everything I had worked on. But to my surprise when I got on the scale this morning I was shocked to see that last week I lost just over 4lbs. I know it's not a monumental amount, but considering I didn't really work out too hard and splurged with the cake and stuff I think it's pretty good. I decided that this week I was going to be SUPER strict on not eating stuff like cake. I also started a 3 week detox that is supposed to jump start my weight loss and actually make me lose some weight in the process. I have been on it since Saturday and I am already feeling a bit better. I was in THE best mood today even though I had to deal with stupid freaking veggie caps at work and trying to encapsulate with them. :) I know Sheena my wife will understand my frustration LOL. Anyway, with the detox, me stepping my workout up to the next level and being super strict with my caloric intake I'm hoping to come close to doubling my weight loss this upcoming week!
I'm in excellent spirits and I hope that these good moods and the feelings of confidence keep coming, cause I gotta say I like how it feels. I posted my weight loss on my facebook page this morning and I felt good to see the positive reaction from a few of my good friends.
I will keep updating my blog throughout the week, but I have decided that it's counterproductive for me to weigh in twice a week. On one hand I enjoy seeing where I'm at and seeing if I'm headed in the right direction, but at the same time I almost would rather wait and only weigh in once a week. I would rather see one big number rather than two small numbers. I think it mentally messed with me last week and may have had something to do with my lack of a huge number when I saw the two little numbers. Anyway, that's all I have for now, but I'll update everyone hopefully tomorrow. :)

halfway through wk 1

well I've been religiously sticking to the weight watchers. I've been riding my bike every morning. progressively riding farther each day. The first day I about died and i only rode .5 mile. Then yesterday i decided i was going to double my distance so I rode 1.5 miles. I figure if I can go a little farther every day and work up to my goal distance which is riding 14 miles to work! Today i decided i was going to push even harder and rode 2.75 miles. I felt GREAT when i got home and I've been feeling amazing all day! I made the decision that I was going to weigh myself Thursday and Monday mornings. I actually feel like I have lost a little bit of weight already. I will weigh myself tomorrow morning and post any sort of hopeful weight loss! In the meantime I'm keeping my head up and staying positive!

So it begins.....!

Well, tomorrow is the day. I bought my bike, bought the foam tire inserts, bought the better more comfortable seat...now all that's left is get my butt on there tomorrow morning and start my journey to a leaner more healthy me! :) I'm super nervous for it though, I'll admit. It's 14 miles one way, and I'll be riding to AND from work for a total of 28 miles/day. I would like to ride this Mon-Thur but I might have to work up to it, we'll see how I feel after tomorrow, LOL. I would ride Mon-Fri, but we usually get off work early on Fridays and generally have things to do after work, so it would be easier to not have to wait so late to start doing all those errands considering it will take me about an hour to get home.
I'm going to be weighing myself tomorrow morning to give myself a starting weight. I was going to last week but I ran into SO many hiccups I wasn't able to do much of anything, although I did move my sister Thursday and Friday, then go and run up and down the hills playing airsoft on Saturday for 5 hours. So I'm sure I got some what of a workout, I know I felt pretty sore today after playing yesterday.
Well I know this is a short one, but I'm getting ready to go to bed and I will update everyone tomorrow night on how the first ride was. :)

My plan

So this post will kind of just give everyone a general idea of what I'm planning on doing and hoping to achieve over the next few months.
I have struggled most of my adult life with being overweight. I'm not morbidly obese or anything, and I am a very active person. I just have extra weight on my body which takes away from my full potential. I have lost weight, only to keep it off temporarily then for some reason fall off the "healthy wagon" and gained it all back again. Over the past year and a half to two years I have worked so hard on losing weight, I attended the Police Academy and lost more weight. I got in pretty good shape while I was there too. I finished in July '09 and kept it off for a couple months. I got frustrated with no jobs being available and so I quit exercising and quit doing everything I was doing to stay in shape. I don't know why I did too, I wanted it really bad, but for some reason I sabotaged myself and started eating bad food, not exercising like I knew I needed to. And subsequently I gained all the weight I had fought so hard to lose.
I am sick of being overweight and as happy for them as I am, I'm sick of seeing other people that are just as big as me lose the weight and get healthy. I know that I want it just as bad as they do, I just hate that I sabotage my success for some reason. I am very motivated this time, just like I was before, but this time I am determined to lose it and keep it off for good! I want to be able to eventually do marathons maybe, or do bike marathons or something like that.
I am planning on buying a bike this weekend when I get paid and starting to ride it to work instead of driving. I work with my wonderful wife, so she will take the kids to daycare and then meet me at work in the morning. I am going to ride it down to work and then back home. I'm aiming for Mon-Thur riding the bike, but we'll see if I'm able to do that right out of the gate, or if I'll need to work up to it. It is about 14 miles one way from my house to my work, so I'll be leaving earlier, and I know it's going to suck right at first, but I know that I will lose weight fairly quickly doing that. I know bicycling is really good exercise. It builds lean muscle which is one of th easiest/quickest ways to burn fat like a furnace! :)
I also was doing a bit of research online over the weekend and I saw that Maca Root Powder is supposed to help with weight loss too. So since I work at a nutritional supplement place I just encapsulated some of it and I'm going to try it out for a month and see if it helps me any. It's also supposed to help with energy and just a general feeling of well being. I started taking it today, and I dont' know if it was a placebo effect or if it really did work, but I felt like I had SO much energy after I took the capsules.
I will be posting my weight loss per week on Facebook every Monday. I will be putting my current weight loss as my status Monday morning. I'm thinking that this will help me hold myself accountable which I know makes losing weight and sticking to it easier. I figured it would also give me a spot for some words of encouragement or criticism. I will be keeping this blog also as a way to keep a journal of what I do, and how I feel after doing it.
I am very hopeful that this is going to be my last attempt at losing weight. I am very positive that I will be successful and stick with it this time, lose the weight that I want to and be able to do all the things that I want to do but can't because I feel too self concious.