Mood:  surprised
Just got back from working out. Decided to just do the treadmill today since my arms are still pretty sore, as well as my legs. Well, not sore exactly, just very...I dunno, they feel like jello kinda. Anyway, decided since I was just gonna do the treadmill that I would step it up a notch, so, I did 30 minutes at a 12 incline and 2.8 miles per hour.

I felt a little dizzy when I got off and my whole body feels a little weak now. I can feel my heart beat in every blood vessel in my legs. It's weird, lol.

Fixing to start on my second glass of water for the day and have breakfast. Probably cheesy scrambled eggs. Maybe an omelet. And some bacon.

Oh, and another thing to mention....I am sweating like a waterfall. I never sweat. How weird is that?

Anyway, off to have lunch I guess since I just realized it's noon and not breakfast time, lol

So far so good....
I'm now down to 304.6lbs. Not too bad considering that I started only a few days ago and I was at 321. I decided to start the atkin's diet along with my workouts, which has been especially hard for me considering that I am completely addicted to coca-cola. And I mean really addicted. I was drinking anywhere from 2 to 3 liters of coke a day. Now I'm down to 2 12oz cans of coke a day, which still isn't good considering that I'm not supposed to be drinking coke at all on atkins, but tons better than what I was doing.

I'm also drinking 8 32oz glasses of water a day. WOW. I never drank water before. And I'm taking vitamins now too. It's been hard to cut potatoes out of my diet but I'm doing it, even though I'm still having to make them for Rick because he hates almost all other cooked veggies. Not really a prob for me though since I love them.

I'm still working out every day for atleast an hour a day. Fixing to get dressed and go work out as soon as I finish this post. I've been doing 20 minutes on the treadmill at a 10 inch incline and 2.5 miles per hour. Then I do weights for about 20, working my arms and legs, then another 20 minutes on the treadmill at a 5 inch incline and 2.5 miles per hour.

I'm still a little sore but I refuse to stop. If I do, I'll quit all together and I don't want to do that.

Anyway, Out for now, gotta take my vitamin and do my first glass of water for the day before I go work out. Then I'll have breakfast. I am going to try and start posting atleast once daily from now on. Hopefully I'll be able to post more than that.

A Bad Start
Mood:  irritated
Great start there to my program huh? Oh well. Guess I'm going to pick it up today. I'm headed out the door right now (soon as I put on my shoes) to go walking. Yes I know, insane huh? I'm going walking at 1:19am in the morning. Too bad they don't leave the work out room open this late.

That's ok though. Gonna go walk around the complex for a while. Maybe I'll be lucky and not get mugged or anything. Least we do have a security guard.

Need to get a new battery for my watch so I can time myself but for now I guess I'm just gonna walk till I feel like passing out, hehe.

Day 1
Mood:  energetic
Eventually I guess I might get around to posting some before pictures. I was up all night coming up with a 6 week progressive work out. By progressive I mean it starts out rather slowly and then builds up so that by the 6th week I'll be doing some major working out.

Now, atm, I weigh somewhere around 320 lbs, give or take a few. I'm 5'11'' so the height helps some, but not enough. I've been fat for too long and I've finally decided to do something about it. But, I knew I didn't have a chance unless I sat down and really outlined what I was going to do.

As of this moment, I have absolutely no plans what so ever to change my eating habits. The main reason for this is because I want to find out if my metabolism is any good. If I can work out, lose the weight and not stop eating the foods I love, I see no sense in eating like a mouse.

I haven't set a target weight and don't plan to. Frankly, I don't own a scale, though I'm sure I'll convince my fiancee Rick to pick one up this weekend so that I can keep up with my progress and post weekly weight reports for myself. I am however setting a final size for myself. Right now, I am in a size 26/28 jeans (24/26 if they stretch) and a 26/28 shirt (or a 3 to 4x depending on how they are made)

My final goal is to be in a size 16. If I can drop below that great. If not, I'm DAMN happy with a 16. My lowest is going to be a 10 though. I have a very large bone structure, compliments of my DNA, and I don't want to look like a walking skeleton.

I haven't worked out yet today, but I plan to post again after I do. It's 2:23am here in Washington. I'm debating right now on sleep. I can either go to bed now, get up sometime around 10am and go work out, or I can stay up and go work out around 4am, make some breakfast, watch some tv and then crash. I'm thinking sleep though.

It's my plan to post twice a day for the first 6 weeks atleast. A before and after work out post. Before posts will be what my day has been like, or what I plan on doing that day. Second posts will be for how my work out went, if I met my goals for each day. How I'm feeling. Who knows. But that's the goal.

I guess I'm mainly starting this blog because I like typing better than I like writing, cause I can do it a lot faster. And because I guess I need something to keep me in check. Hopefully this will help.