UPDATE 10 30 2008

Tuesday will be election day and I expect that Barack Obama will win the office of the President.  This will be a historic event and I feel that the next 4 years will be a very difficult time for the new president.  I am going to take this opportunity to make a long term goal.  At the end of this first term.  I will maintain a weight management program to keep myself healthy.  I am not a big fan of very long term goals and I will not put an exact number on the weight goal as it will change.  My initial weight loss plan was designed to eliminate weight.  The vast majority of this weight was pure fat,  but my body composition has changed.  My fat content while higher than I want is well within an "average healthy" range.  

I am finishing a cycle of adding muscle.  I will take a 6 week break starting in two weeks were my primary focus will not be on muscle gain but on fat loss and muscle maintenance.  

Maintaining weight is hard

... especially when you are trying to get bigger. My goals have changed from trying to lose weight to building muscle. While I have added significant muscle mass there is some fat gain as well. I have decided to continue my current "bulking up" plan thru the end of October and my primary monthly health focus will for November and December will be to reduce the amount of body fat.

My specific goals are to build muscle and trim fat-- this is often hard to do. My waist is smaller than it has ever been.

October 11, 2009

Its been more than a year since I started my journey.  I have taken what was a weight loss program into a whole body transformation.  I have spent the last 3 months focusing on building muscle more than losing weight.  I have actually gained some weight.  I would contend that a great amount of the weight is muscle.  I will be posting some new body photos in the near future.

On the Run again

Earlier this year I followed the c25k plan to run a 5 k race in early July.  After completing this I stopped running.  I have not been a big fan of running I find that it puts a lot of strain on my body.  I feel that I may have trained only for a specific goal.  It was a very good experience from the standpoint of weight loss and body trimming.  This last week.  I started a modified c25k plan.  I am training 5 days a week and I am essentially running/walking 2 miles a day.  In 12 weeks I plan to be running 3 miles a day.

This week has been very successful for me.  I am taking the weekend off and will continue on Monday. 

I am also setting goals for October.  My focus in October is my running plan and training on my back muscles.

Hope all is well.

ONE YEAR DOWN

Today I celebrate my first anniversary of my journey. This health journey has been a great one. I have seen a huge amount of success with my weight loss and with my overall health. I have spent the last year changing every aspect of my life. I have built muscle and learned to control my appetite. This has been hard. Do not get me wrong. There are days I just want to go to an all you can eat desert bar and go crazy.

In the next week or so I will post the outline for the next leg of my journey.

Thanks your your support.

All about building Muscle

I have changed my focus from losing weight to building muscle. I am now working out 5 to 6 days a week. And I Expect to add some weight with this heavy weight training plan.

My weight loss has stopped essentially. In a month I will be celebrating my one year anniversary of my weight loss journey and I have not decided what to do yet. I am planning on posting pictures as a slide show of pictures from before the journey through the time of my liquid diet, into transition and up through the the current time.

I have Two 5 K walk/runs planned for the coming months. October 4 will be the Ted's Montana Grill 5k Run/Walk and Fun Run. and the Later in October will be the Aids Walk in Atlanta.

I am looking at getting a bicycle. I find that I get really bored of running but a bike will give me more scenery to look at . I hope all is well.