Starting this page was suggested to me by my beautiful wife Crystal and her weight loss journey. Many years ago i was a fit crewman in the Canadian Forces.
This will be a tool to keep us both motivated and to show family, friends and complete strangers that with determination, you too can succeed!!! It seems when you are forced to work out it is much easier to do. I had nicknames like "beanpole" and "rail" and other such names associated with a skinny man. Once i got out of the military and started driving for our city transit system the sitting beh
ind the wheel for 8 hours a day started to take it's toll. I gained a belly which i never had before and my level of fitness dropped dramatically. Over the years i just watched myself go. I would look at pics of me back in the military and say "that guy is dead and he is not coming back." Flash forward a 10 years later and after a divorce took its toll on me physically and emotionally i have finally found the woman of my dreams. She started on her weight loss goal a year and a half ago. I would watch he go to the gym, and do marathons and other such things while i just sat around, worked, played video games and ate burgers, fries and chips. She even got me a gym membership to go with her, and i did a few times but quickly lost interest. One day she said to me, "look, i love you and i always will no matter what you weigh but, you are 38 years old and you need to make some changes." I sat back and thought about it, i had tried many fad diets and gym routines and nothing worked so i would just give up. Crystal then told me the one thing that finally made me take the next step she said, "honey, one of these days you will get out of bed, look in the full mirror and what you will see will disgust you, then you will have the motivation to do it." I said yes dear and thought she was full of it. About 3 weeks later i got up one morning and looked at myself in the mirror, i saw, love handles, and an enormous gut. I had never stepped on the scale much and this particular morning i did. I started to cry. I was the heaviest i had ever been in my life, 260 pds. I was embarrassed, ashamed and disgusted. I looked in the mirror and screamed at myself "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH YOU FAT BASTARD NO MORE EXCUSES YOU HAVE TO MAKE CHANGES!!!" I never let my wife know about this until much later because i was afraid of the fact that she would be as ashamed of me as i was of myself. I started using myfitnesspal app on my phone and logging my food and calorie intake. I started exercising more in the form of bike riding and doing some step aerobics. After a month and a half i lost 20 pds!!! Just by changing my lifestyle habits and getting more regular exercise. I started to have way more energy and wanted to do more than just sit on the couch and watch tv of play video games. My wife noticed a huge difference too and was very impressed. She said to me, "honey you are looking so good, and are really doing good things with your food choices, why the change?" I was then i told her about the mirror incident and that she was right sometimes you gotta hit rock bottom before you make up your mind to change. This page will be my journal in my weight loss journey,this will be where i will post my progress and to make sure everyone knows when i reach my goals. I NEVER thought i could do this, but if i can, you can too, in fact anyone can do this, it's mind over matter. You have to WANT to make the changes. You have to want to improve your health and your life. Thanks for visiting my page everyone, we are all here to support one another and help each other reach our goals!!! (Special thanks to Crystal my beautiful wife of The Final 40, i could not have done this without you!!!)
