My Transformation

Have you ever had an epiphany? That moment you look at something, then it hits you just like an Acme Safe coming down on your head.  Yeah I had one of those.  I was going through my morning routine and I came out of the bathroom and there in front of me was a set of pictures that I have walked by a thousand times.  On the right side was a picture of me holding my son, he was about 5 years old, there I saw a slim fit man who was physically strong and rather good looking if I do say so myself.  On the left side was the same guy holding my daughter… Though this guy who was over 240lbs.  Then I looked down… Yep that was me now. I then looked to the picture on the right and said “That was the guy I was.”  The guy I want to be then I looked at the picture on the left and said “I don’t know who you are but that’s not me.”

Where did all this weight come from?

Well let me say I had become the trash compactor for the family… I didn't want that food to go to waste.  I was eating like a person that was 20 but at 35 years of age the systems don’t work the same any more.    Factor 2 after graduating from college My little girl was born,  meanwhile prior to her birth every time Mommy got hungry I would eat also well you can see where that got me .

  Working 2 jobs, fast food had become a staple of my DIEt… Notice the emphases on the DIE part of diet.   Living off of large sodas and fast food was becoming a fast way for me to throw my entire body into the realm of obesity… 

I was in constant pain all the time.  Some days I could barely make it out of bed.  Yeah and I was told that I snored like a bear. That got so bad that my wife got me a special pillow to elevate me so I wouldn't snore… 

I won’t say that this revelation was brought on just by me, my wife had started working out a couple months before this and I wasn't exactly the most supportive about it.  How many times have you been shopping with the misses and they say” I’m going to get this”… I would shrug and say “okay”.   I had seen her pick up more than a couple of these DVDs at different outlet stores, play them a couple times and then end up on a shelf collecting dust.  She was the one that introduced me to Shakeology and a program called Rev Abs. 

Well the rest is a bit of history now but his is me now.

I strive every day to take it to the next level, becoming even healthier.  I am a warrior in the battle against Obesity and I will climb any mountain and proclaim that “YOU CAN DO IT TOO!”