A big step...

I will get to the big step in a sec, but first a quick update since last week. I ate healthy every other meal last week. This past weekend I ate terrible crap. Thankfully though, I was able to get through yesterday and today eating very healthy and am feeling good already.

Now for my big step...

Today the family and I went to the local fitness center for the first time in years. I am very self conscious and being this overweight in front of fit folks terrified me. After much thought I realized I cannot succeed if I won't find the strength to overcome barriers. So at 6:30pm we walked in and worked out as a family.

I was so proud to see my 11 year old son give his all on the treadmill and bike for an entire hour. This is my kid that hates veggies and our neighborhood walks. Thank God he had fun there tonight! Crystal and Chloe sweated it out on the cardio machines.

Than there was me. I felt terribly out of place. Besides the bike and treadmill,  I hardly knew what else to use. Maybe it was in my head, but I think I was the only fat dude there...I certainly was the largest one there. So I took on the recumbent bike to begin and within minutes I stopped caring that I was the heaviest person there. I stopped thinking every buff dude was thinking I should be lifting weights not biking. Instead I focused on how great it was thst I was moving and getting healthy with my family and not sitting and eating crap at the house. I focused on the fact that for every day I do this, I will be that much closer to a new me.

Many weight loss success stories include the advice that it doesnt matter how you start exercising, just start. Today I started. I may be weeks from being in enough shape to do hardcore workouts, but to spend an hour my first day peddling, walking and light resistance training feels great!

More to come soon. Take care friends.
Mike

Back again!

Told you I'd be talking to you soon :0)

No need for me to go into boring details of my meals, but I will tell you that I have managed to stay within my calories and ate the good veggies and fruits the last 2 days.

I will be joining the local fitness center this week and getting a family membership. My plan was to do that today, but with my mom in the hospital and a packed to do list for school, I had to put it on hold. This will be a for sure thing, I mean I didn't buy nice workout shoes for nothing, lol.

A friend of mine pointed out a great page on Facebook. This really cool guy shares his story of overcoming being over 400 pounds and how he lost it the common sense way. While looking at his page there are tons of inspirational comments from him and others, tips and other useful items for anyone looking to get fit. His name is Tony, but the page is The Anti-Jared...here's the link:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Anti-Jared/285102642711?ref=ts&fref=ts

I hope you all have a great week and I'll check back with you all soon.

Mike

New, yet oddly familiar...

So I logged into Blogspot with the intentions of creating yet another, my 3rd, blog. The idea was it would be a place for me to post daily (okay, weekly) pics of healthy meals, pics from where I am walking at and just a journal type blog of this fresh start to getting my weight off. I figured that since Chloe isn't really into posting stuff, I could include her as needed on the new blog and just not worry about drafting her in to be a big part of it.

It was only after seeing my first failed blog staring at me on my account page that I made the connection. I continuously never finish what I start...just like my blogs. So instead of throwing away another year of posts that document the good and bad, I am going to build on it. This is not all for nothing, and I need to realize that every misstep in the past has gave me an education in what not to do.

I won't drag this post on and on. Basically, I am having a grand re-opening of Mike and Chloe Lose It that will be stocked full of new found commitment and motivation in the Young household. I hope I can still find the much needed support of friends, family and those I have never met. Yes I have said some of this before. I get that. But my only option is to jump back on track and rededicate my focus, so if I sound repetitive than so be it. The only other option is to give up...and that is NOT an option.

Take care and talk to you again soon,
Mike