It's Finally Friday

I can't believe that the week is over. Just 3 or 4 more and our little one will be here. We are so excited for her arrival. I am so glad that I am doing this change, I should have started a long time ago, but I just wasn't ready. I had all the excuses in the world to not change, but I grew tired of excuses, so when Nichole came to me and said that she had set up an appointment with a neighbor of ours, I was excited! I was ready. That was at the beginning of this month. Yesterday I went back for our monthly appointment, and walked away with some very positive results!

What a Week

So this week I worked my butt off because I didn't count my calories over the weekend last weekend. I started off week @ 272 and I stayed there all week. Every morning I would get up and weigh myself and see the same number everyday.
I would work out everyday, killing myself to just see a different number the next morning. I went all week and woke up on friday morning, my legs stiff and my chest aching from the previous days workout and stepped on the scale. What did I see? The number 272 staring right back at me. I stepped off the scale and got back on thinking to myself that my $40 was broken. Still 272. Dangit. Off to work and a my workout.
When I woke up on Saturday and stepped on the scale to my surprise the scale read 268.8. All the hard work paid off and I had seen some progress, but it's the weekend again and this is where I faulter :( I need to be strick on the weekends, but like every other overweight person my excuse will be next weekend.

Test post

I just found that I can post on my blog from my text messages. This is awesome because I thought that I had to be signed up on my phone provider for the data plan, but oh contrare!!
So I am halfway through my third week here with my lifechange pickup. Did I ever give up hope with my life change that I started in Nov. of last year? No not really, but I just made my excuses. Is it going to be hard for me to not make excuses again this semester? You bet!! But I HAVE to make this an obsession, this has to be my new life! No it's not how the general population lives, I realize that and it's like I am pushing against an immovable rock according to societies frame of mind, but it HAS to be done, I can't keep living like this anymore.

Back in the Saddle

Well I am back at it again. I enlisted the help of a Personal Trainer to help me get through the last two semesters of school and to help me stay focused to reach my goal. My wife and I are excitedly awaiting the arrival of our first child, so I am trying to stay focused on that also.

I have had some major problems with my weight loss since the beginning of the year, I haven't gained more weight than I started with, but I have fluctuated up and down and now I am working to just keep going down.

I sat down with my PT and we came up with some goals:
1. Drink water before soda (this is super tough for me)
2. Eat 1700 cal everyday
3. Cardio 5x a week
4. split weight routine 4x a week
I started last week on the 3rd and I weighed myself today and I have lost 13.6 pounds. Granted the first week I lost 10 in water, but 3.4 in the last 5 days isn't bad.

Next week I up the workout. So far so good though!