Yesterday I said goodbye to one of my longtime friends, Cold Stone. One last "gotta have it" before my diet kicks in. If you don't know what Cold Stone is consider yourself lucky. For the rest of you, know that we morn together. OK, back to the diet plan.
The first phase of my diet is going to be a simple back to basics strategy . The food I will consume are:
Basic Diet Foods
-chicken
-oatmeal
-frosted mini wheat's
-broccoli
-water
Tonight I will post the diet schedule
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
First day in diet hell
Today begins my journey. I've will now and forever strive to live a healthy lifestyle. I'm tired of my 330lbs body, it's time to move on.
I've had weight issues my whole life. I used to believe all of this was because I came from a family with no regard for healthy eating and a mother that showed her affection by cooking pizzas for me. I love my mom and the rest of my family, I want to make it clear that I don't blame them in an way for my current situation. Because, after childhood I became a very healthy person on my own. Believe it or not, I actually had muscles. It was only after a couple of life changing events that I let my body balloon up to 330 pounds.
The first of which came when my girlfriend and I discovered she was pregnant. Our lives were turned upside down by this news. We made so many changes to our lifestyle to accommodate the new addition to our family. Imagine how it felt when we were told that the baby didn't have a heartbeat. The second was my job change. I went from an active construction job to a desk job, this cut the amount of calories I was able to burn in half "ouch". The funny thing is, my appetite seemed to be growing, I guess it was from the boredom of the new job.
There is one other ingredient that I believe added to my weight gain. Remember when I said I had muscles, they didn't sprout by themselves. I worked hard in my twenties to keep my self in shape. My diet was clean and I worked out vigorously, to the point of obsession. In the beginning it was all about becoming cut, paper thin skin with walls of hard rock muscle pushing through. In the summer of 2003 I achieved a 10% body fat level, I should have been ecstatic, but I wanted more. This is where I made my biggest mistake "THE BULK". As winter approached I opted to gain weight in an attempt to build more muscle. What a mistake!
Tomorrow we'll get started with the weight loss plan!
I've had weight issues my whole life. I used to believe all of this was because I came from a family with no regard for healthy eating and a mother that showed her affection by cooking pizzas for me. I love my mom and the rest of my family, I want to make it clear that I don't blame them in an way for my current situation. Because, after childhood I became a very healthy person on my own. Believe it or not, I actually had muscles. It was only after a couple of life changing events that I let my body balloon up to 330 pounds.
The first of which came when my girlfriend and I discovered she was pregnant. Our lives were turned upside down by this news. We made so many changes to our lifestyle to accommodate the new addition to our family. Imagine how it felt when we were told that the baby didn't have a heartbeat. The second was my job change. I went from an active construction job to a desk job, this cut the amount of calories I was able to burn in half "ouch". The funny thing is, my appetite seemed to be growing, I guess it was from the boredom of the new job.
There is one other ingredient that I believe added to my weight gain. Remember when I said I had muscles, they didn't sprout by themselves. I worked hard in my twenties to keep my self in shape. My diet was clean and I worked out vigorously, to the point of obsession. In the beginning it was all about becoming cut, paper thin skin with walls of hard rock muscle pushing through. In the summer of 2003 I achieved a 10% body fat level, I should have been ecstatic, but I wanted more. This is where I made my biggest mistake "THE BULK". As winter approached I opted to gain weight in an attempt to build more muscle. What a mistake!
Tomorrow we'll get started with the weight loss plan!
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