Working out...losing weight

Well that's the goal anyway. I have been working out, and working out hard for the past three years. In those three years I've lost probably about 100lbs of fat and gained about 20lbs of muscle. I have just over a year before we are married and I'm needing to shed a few pounds. If I'm honest with myself I need to shed more than just a few. So as a way to motivate myself I'm going to try and keep a blog about losing weight and working out.

I've thought long and hard and decided the best approach for me is a basic one. No Weight Watchers, no Atkins, no South Beach, just need to keep the calorie intake to 2500 a day or less and continue to exercise. So I'm going with a two pronged attack. First will be to keep better track of my exercising. I need to be better at keeping track of my sets and the amount I lift. The second is to stick to counting the calories for the day.

As to the first, I'm pretty satisfied at where my cardio is. My resting heart rate used to be in the 80's and now I'm down into the high 50's or low 60's. My need is for more upper body strength and working on my core supportive muscles. The Fiance gave me 6 training sessions at my gym and I have used them to build a good new workout regime. It has me maintaining or slightly improving my leg muscles, and focusing in on triceps, biceps, chest, back, shoulder and abs. I also am working on new cardio things such as jump roping. I will lay out what I lift after the gym today and then try to keep updating in this blog to see how much (or little) I've improved.

The second will be forcing myself to blog daily about he caloric intake I have. I'm hoping this will keep me on the straight and narrow. Of course I'm saying this while munching on a handful of jelly beans so there's that. But it's baby steps.

So that's the goal, to look good in a tux by next April. As I sit here and type this out, I'm also realizing that I have one large hurdle to overcome. The switch hasn't flicked. What I mean by that is when anyone who has needed to overcome a large change in their lives has a moment of clarity when they realize something must be done. Alcoholics and drug users call it hitting rock bottom. I call it hitting Rocky Road, preferably Ben and Jerry's. It has happened for me a few times when I have lost larger amounts of weight. My hope is in writing this blog and trying to keep up with it, I'll flick the switch.