Day 56 – Body for Life

So today marks one of the first major failures I have had on Body for Life… sad as I am about it, it was a party that one of my best friends had last night and I drank, alcohol if you can believe it. Well, it was kind of hard not to as my costume was that of a KEG of beer. My hat for the keg was a tapper that held about 20 ounces worth of beverage, my beverage of choice of course being beer.

The good news is I only filled it up twice and did not finish the second refill, but still a failure is a failure. Remember back when you were in school and you got your first (and hopefully only) failing grade? If it were something like a 58/100 you didn’t feel any better because you “just barely failed” did you now? I didn’t think so, that is about how I feel now, I have worked very hard to change my lifestyle that sent me into this tailspin of weight gain and I had come to realize that alcohol is the single biggest factor in my weight gain. You ask yourself, “how can he pin his fat ass on alcohol?” well, read on and I will let you know.

When you go out drinking, how do you feel (apart from tired) once you have finished drinking for the night, probably hungry and guess where you can stop on your way home (or actually convince the designated driver or cabbie to stop). That’s right, Taco Bell or some other place with the worst crap you can ingest into your body, oh, and then you go right home and to sleep. **side note for my single friends out there, you should probably try to insert the part about trying to score with the chick you brought home, but us married folks, we just want to sleep – the sex will be there another day when we are not so tired and drunk.

So anyway, back on track now, last night was a slip up and I have acknowledged it as such. Now with day 56 upon me and daylight savings time turning my clocks back an hour, I am ready to get moving again. I will work for an extra hour today trying to kick myself in the ass and burn off those worthless calories I consumed last night. I will not cry about how life is not fair and it was only one time, it was a failure and now I am moving back on track. As I said in my last blog, I am down over 25 pounds and still have a ways to go. I have started looking past the cruise at this point and want to lose the weight for the long term and that means a total of 60 pounds from starting point.

Till next time, watch yourself cause that evil enemy is out there, just waiting for you to slip up.

Day (I don't know)

Well I have been doing Body for Life now for quite a few weeks, don't know the number off the top of my head. I am now at the point where I have lost 25 pounds and need to lose another 15 before our cruise in 5 weeks.

One thing I am doing in addition to my regular workout is exercise boot camp. It is a 5:30 AM workout regimine that is quite tough although nothing like real boot camp. Our personal trainer for the boot camp is a guy who really knows his stuff and it really does make life easier (and harder at the same time).

I am pretty sure I will get down to my Cruise Goal weight in time, but I am happy with the progress so far anyway.

I also know that in previous blogs (they seem like so long ago), I mentioned that I would post video blogs... well, I have recorded them, but I have not encoded them for the web (and I kinda doubt I will) strictly from a time standpoint--I don't have any.

Till next time, keep on working out!