The First of Many

The first few posts on this blog served the sole purpose of setting everything up;  making sure that you, the reader, understood what the goal of the blog was, and how I intended to accomplish that goal.  While I enjoyed writing those posts, this is what I have really been looking forward to:  the first of many update posts on my progress.

You will notice that this post is coming just over 3 weeks after I kicked off my journey.  I admit, this is a long amount of time, but that was intended.  I didn't want to post an update until I had really made some progress and had something to actually update about.  My reasoning for this was two-fold.  First of all,  I didn't want my first post after starting this venture to simply be me stating the obvious (ie "hey guys, I'm exercising and dieting on the first day.... huzzah!")  Secondly, not allowing myself to post anything until I really started to see some progress gave me a small goal to reach, and got me excited to push harder and harder so that I could start blogging again.

Because you are reading this post, you can rest assured that I did indeed meet my goal, and have made some solid progress that I would like to share with you, so sit back, relax, and read on.

Let The Games Begin!

I've spent the past several posts laying everything out for you in terms of my realization that I was obese, my desire to change my body and my life so that I could participate and succeed in something as intense as Tough Mudder, and my plan of action for going about those changes.  Now, it's time for me to put all of that thought and planning to work, and start becoming the badass that I want to be.

How?

Figuring out the "Why?" is all well and good, but no lifestyle change is worth a damn if you don't have a plan of action.  So, after sitting down and spending several weeks researching, and combining that with things that I had already done in the past to lose weight and get in shape (believe it or not, I actually was fairly in shape at one time), I built my own health and wellness plan that I believe will bring me to the Tough Mudder and beyond.  To explain my plan to you, I will break it down into its two essential parts, Diet and Exercise, and talk about each part separately.

Why?

In my last post, I gave you my creed;  my realization that I was, in fact ill, and that I needed to do something about it.  In this post, I want to give you the "why."  Why am I doing this?  What caused me to want to make a change?  What made me want to become a healthier person and not just deal with what was?