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Tired of being "fluffy"
I've never posted a blog before so I figured this would be a good place to start.
My wife and I have both been heavy most of our lives. Her as long back as she can remember and I since my preteen years. We've tried about every gimmick and fad out there to loose weight both before and after we got married. We had finally given up and said the hell with it, there is nothing we can do about it. There was never the time to do anything, or the money for gym memberships or eating right. Well that all changed in December of last year when I hit an all time high weight. I've been 300+ since 2001, but when I went to the Dr on the 28th for a sinus infection I got the shock of my life. I stepped on the scale and it read 410lbs. I decided that I had to do something. Starting a week later after I'd got over being sick I started making my self work out. We have a Treadmill and Elliptical at my part time job, and I started going there every day off from my regular job and using both. To begin with I could barley do 5min on each machine, but I made myself work at it and add 1 min each each day.
After about 3 weeks of this I had lost a little weight and was feeling better, my wife was seeing a difference in me and was beginning to get motivated. We went together and checked out a new gym in town and after taking the tour and meeting the trainers we decided to join. We are now going to the gym together 3-4 days a week. We have changed our eating habits. No more fad diets or gimmicks, just simply watching what we eat and eating 6 small meals instead of 2 huge ones a a day. This is an actual lifestyle change that we can stick with and make permnate.
I now have to say I am incredibly proud of my wife. She has worked her ass off Literally. Every day I see her I get more and more proud. She has gone from barely walking a mile in 30 min to doing just shy of a 20min mile now. She has lost 16lbs and 4% body fat in 3 1/2 weeks. I can't believe how proud I am of her
I have had great changes as well. I now regularly do 1.5 mile in 30 min on treadmill or 2 miles on elliptical 4-5 days a week. On Friday I even did a 5k on the treadmill in 1hr5min. I have gone from 410 on Dec 28th to 390 as of this morning. Three weeks ago I was at 49% body fat and I'm now at 44%.
We both know this is not going to be quick. It's going to take time, but by this time next year we'll no longer be Fluffy.
Sorry if this is long winded.
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