Woo hoo

I hit a huge milestone in my weight loss: something that meant a lot to me. I have lost enough weight to be under 300 pounds and I am ecstatic. I have been putting in a lot of hard work at the gym, at work, and at home. For months people have been telling me how much weight I was losing but my scale was not budging. The mirror would not show me what other people were seeing. Finally the scale started dropping and fast. So fast in fact that for a week a half a pound a day left my body. Even with set backs where I was sick, or my old weight lifting injury held me back I still maintained weight loss. Even today my knee was hurting but when I worked through the pain I felt so much better. Soon I will start adding photos every week to show not only myself but others where I've come from and where I'm going.

One of the few good photos of me

I still don't feel like I can take a good photo. This is recent but it took five tries to get this, which is the only one that I think looks good. I need to work harder, for the most part I have being a good person down pat, but if I am ever to be a personal trainer this weight has to come off so that I can take photos that aren't just of my face. I need to work on my body so that I can be proud of it again. This blog was meant to keep me active, having people read it so that I would be accountable to those people. But like with everything I got sidetracked and have not updated this in probably more than a year. My plan is to be more active with this blog because I do need an outlet for some of the extra energy that I have gained from regular exercise and a very active job. I need to start showing what I eat and what I do not just to keep me active with the blog but so that I can see where I am slipping up. It is be on time to get serious I am far too overweight to allow for this weight to stay on me. The plan is probably two  posts per day, 1 be about my workout what usually happens in the morning and two to be about what I've eaten throughout the day and the total calories is that comes out to. Wish me luck.

Veganism

Something I am considering because of it's extreme health benefits but since I have some experience from a year as a vegetarian I am not sure of my success rate. I lived on a farm I know the difference in taste between a properly raised and cared for animal and a factory farmed one. Seriously you can taste their fear. Ever wonder why people go organic. Try it sometime. The meat is sweeter and juicer because it was properly taken care of. While I know it would be a fantastic way to drop a lot of weight the problem would come from cravings for meat. The supersize me guy had a similar problem his girlfriend at the time (now wife) gave him a vegan detox diet after all that mcdonalds. He still went back to meat. We did evolve to be omnivores and eating foods of opportunity. It wasn't until the last few hundred years that people as a whole have been more settled and eating things that they raised. I think to do it I would do it different. Have Monday to Friday as vegan/veggie and then on the weekend allow myself meat. Or alternate days, or whatever works. I know for sure that I should already have a Meatless Monday and a Fruitarian Friday. I have been slacking and that has to change. 

New Year, New crazy

So basically we have all been thrown into a new year where will will promise to do better about our bad habits and focus on being better. This isn't where lasting change comes from. Its great to really get into making yourself better but the human body evolved over millions of years you can't just make yourself something better over night or expect insta results. It should take 2 weeks to make each change. (2 weeks is about how long it takes to create a good habit.) I have decided that not bs'ing my workouts is my first two weeks of the new year. The second will be getting out more for walks or bike rides or whatever. Last will be adding more and more healthy, locally grown food into my diet. I plan to implement that with actual growing of my own food. It will take well over the month of January and into February to actually make and stick to my resolutions without going crazy and failing like I do every year. Do you have any tips or want some advice on sticking to it? Or maybe just some support. Just follow me.

Work out share

Work out share Some good moves that can be done quickly for a tight toned body.

Making better choices

Okay so I am going to go off on a tangent and if you want to read it you will. Mcdonalds. Yes its unhealthy and we shouldn't be going there anyway but people do. I don't care how big you get you can buy the food you are going to serve responsibly. Organic restaurants do. Hell even Walmart one of the worst things to happen to the environment is responding to its customers demand and purchases of better grown/made food by supplying more of it. They saw the green trending and purchased more green items. Here is where I want to Occupy Mcdanalds. http://www.care2.com/causes/celebrities-tell-mcdonalds-im-hatin-it.html. Despite the fact that they have proven to Europe that they can go cruelty free they haven't in the US yet. WTF come on.

Real Food

I live in America where corporations and money rule. He who has the most wins. In this country that greed led us to a terrible recession which we are still struggling to get out of. What do these corporations have to do with food? When the dollar matters more than the person you’re serving then keeping costs down and making sure there is plenty of product becomes the norm. Unfortunately that means risking the health of the animals, scientifically changing seeds to be more resistant to pesticides and overloading the world with chemicals. Seriously and we wonder why the country is getting fatter. DUH the answer is that you are going for convenience over quality. Would you still choose convenience if you developed cancer that was directly tied to the crappy food you were eating? I am done. Backyard garden is going to happen after I know how Hurricane Irene will treat me. Certified organic is what I will eat/buy. What’s worse is they lie to our faces about how they do things. I am calling you out Perdue and Tyson chicken. Your chickens are so big that they can’t walk. They DIE because their bodies are unable to support the massive weight brought on by the steroids you give them. They sit in coops in their own feces and as of recently don’t ever see sunlight. That’s funny because all you talk about on your lying commercials is how your chickens are healthy. Get to walk around and other bullshit. Don’t lie to me. Here is one of their lying commercials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4ha6n_twM

Guaranteed healthy! What a farce! About 5 birds DIE every day. Same goes for Tyson. So I am done with the lies. I suggest that everyone watch the documentary Food Inc. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/?licb=0.10843141897058262 It will open your eyes and let you see behind the veil and let you know about the real problems in the corporate food system.