I haven't written a blog in a few years so I thought I would start a new one. My life has changed a good bit since my old blog. Back then my blog and life was all about losing weight, which I did, I went from close to 2, 50 lbs down to under 150 lbs. But life likes to throw curve balls and I gained most of the weight back1 and hit a new high of 200 lbs a couple of years ago.
I had no one to blame but myself for the weight gain, to be honest I just got sick and tired of constantly counting my calories and stopped. Not watching my diet in turn put the weight back on. The saying is true, you cannot out work a diet since I was still hitting the gym on a regular basis.
So I basically had to start all over. In the fall of 2013 I was introduced to CrossFit and fell in love with it. I was active in CrossFit from then until November of 2015 when I moved to Hawaii. I became stronger but my weight really didn't move, I bounced between 200 and 190. Again I was trying to out work a bad diet. During the years of 2014 and 2015 I was going through a pretty rough personal life and was drinking and eating way too much. No wonder I wasn't dropping the weight like I should have, huh?
So after moving to Hawaii in November of 2015 I ended up leaving the CrossFit community since it was out of my price range here. I'm grateful for all that I learned during my time with that sector of fitness since it gave me a great foundation to continue with my fitness in the globo gym on the base. I arrived here weighing at 193 lbs and now as of today, May 2nd, I weigh 174 lbs. Not a huge amount of weight but that's not all to go by, I have lost several inches off my waist and hips (unfortunately not my thighs, thanks squats lol).
As far as my fitness goes since I've been here I had a decline in my maxes on my lifts. But with a daily dedication I have slowly built my bases back up, not all are where there used to be but not too far now. One area that I lack the most is my upper body and I have to really concentrate to make sure that I get the work in on that as well.
So that brings everything up to date.
I had no one to blame but myself for the weight gain, to be honest I just got sick and tired of constantly counting my calories and stopped. Not watching my diet in turn put the weight back on. The saying is true, you cannot out work a diet since I was still hitting the gym on a regular basis.
So I basically had to start all over. In the fall of 2013 I was introduced to CrossFit and fell in love with it. I was active in CrossFit from then until November of 2015 when I moved to Hawaii. I became stronger but my weight really didn't move, I bounced between 200 and 190. Again I was trying to out work a bad diet. During the years of 2014 and 2015 I was going through a pretty rough personal life and was drinking and eating way too much. No wonder I wasn't dropping the weight like I should have, huh?
So after moving to Hawaii in November of 2015 I ended up leaving the CrossFit community since it was out of my price range here. I'm grateful for all that I learned during my time with that sector of fitness since it gave me a great foundation to continue with my fitness in the globo gym on the base. I arrived here weighing at 193 lbs and now as of today, May 2nd, I weigh 174 lbs. Not a huge amount of weight but that's not all to go by, I have lost several inches off my waist and hips (unfortunately not my thighs, thanks squats lol).
As far as my fitness goes since I've been here I had a decline in my maxes on my lifts. But with a daily dedication I have slowly built my bases back up, not all are where there used to be but not too far now. One area that I lack the most is my upper body and I have to really concentrate to make sure that I get the work in on that as well.
So that brings everything up to date.
Starting Photo 237#
When I hit under 150#
When I gain back 200#, this 190 something
Me currently at 174#
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