Good God Blogger, it has been a while.
You are like the one I won't let go, always come back to every few months, promise to stay forever and always leave.
A lot has changed in my life since I wrote my last post (it was posted a few minutes ago, but I wrote it about a year and a half ago). I won't go into it all, there's be some terrible moments and some great ones, but I am most proud of myself for my weight loss.
Since November 2011, I have lost 60 lbs. That's over 4 stone by the way. More than a fifth of my body weight when I decided I was too heavy. Part of the reason I started on this journey was because my girlfriend at the time was less than half of my weight, which I found embarrassing. Another reason was I began to become increasingly concerned about my health, especially trying to go forward in life. The main reason, however, was that I was just not happy. I hated looking at pictures, and could only look at myself at certain angles in the mirror and feel comfortable. Every time I caught a glimpse of myself I was unhappy, think about how many times you see yourself a day - in the mirror, reflections from windows, pictures on Facebook - it's a lot!
Most of my weight loss was done prior to April 2013, however, that's when it really went into overdrive. I went through some personal sh*t at the time, and I felt I didn't have too much to focus on until my friend Maz introduced me to the Insanity workout DVDs. I had seen an infomercial for these DVDs at New Year, but had never actually tried it.
Trust me when I say, that shit works. It has completely changed my life. My attitude has improved 100%. I've lost more weight, put on more muscle, toned up, and got that waistline down.
I still have more to go, I currently weigh 13 stone 7 lbs, and have a 34 inch waist - for comparison I was 17 stone 11 lbs and had a 40 inch waist at my heaviest 2 years ago. I'm not too concerned with losing much more weight as I want to build more muscle, and muscle is heavier than fat, but I would love to be a 32" inch waist (30 would be ideal, but one thing at a time eh?). This is where the Blogging comes in.
I'm going to do the second month of Insanity again. This is a very tough training regime. It's 1 hour a day of intense workouts, such as Max. Interval Circuit, Max. Cardio Conditioning and Max Inverval Plyo. They are very tough on the body, and I've not been able to full stick to the schedule before because of this. Now though, I am challenging myself to get through this, and get an extra 2 inches off my waist before my birthday (my birthday is 17th December, this program will end 7th December, but December is generally a terrible month to lose weight and stick to a strict diet).
So everyday for the next 4 weeks, starting tomorrow (Monday 11th November), I will post my workout, diet/meal plan for the day and how I'm feeling. Every Monday I will post a picture for comparison, with a final picture on Saturday 7th December as well as some comparison shots.
I'll also be going without alcohol for this time. Those of you who know me will probably laugh at that, but I'm fed up of drinking these days anyway, so it's no big deal. My biggest concern is actually catching a cold or something which stops me from working out, I'll just have to hope for the best on that one.
I'm excited and nervous, but above all determined. Wish me luck! :)
P.s. to any of my friends thinking of embarking on a similar journey to lose weight and get healthy, do it. Start now, cause when (not if) you do eventually start you'll wish you started it a long time ago.
