Okay, deep breath. Here we go. I am dipping my toe into the world of blogging. I apologize in advance for any spelling errors, grammar etc. It is not my strong suit. Oh wait I just noticed there is a spell check here, awesome. God Bless you spell check gods, you have made me look much smarter than I really am all these years.
A little background on me. I am 32 years old and live in Southern California. I am happily married with an incredible and beautiful wife and we have a young daughter who just turned one last month. I am blessed to have many wonderful friends and family very close by as well. I work in the family business and am lucky that it has been a good run for us thus far. All in all that is it. Pretty good right? I think so.
Okay, that is out of the way onto the reason I am doing this.
I need to lose weight, plan and simple. I need to be happier with myself and be happier with what an amazing life I have before me. I have never been one to get real serious and sappy but I have reached my breaking point. I stepped on the scale this morning and was shocked, just speechless. It is incredible what years of yo yo diets and fast food binges can do to you. I make an excuse for everything and my favorite saying is " I am going to start a hardcore program come insert day here " I am tired of this. I hate the way I feel, I hate the way I look and most importantly I hate the way it makes my family feel. I am a dick. I have a horrible temper, I am short with my wife for no reason. I avoid doing things because I am lazy and everyone around has suffered because I just feel off. Now tell me if that is fair. All she does is support me and love me and accept me for all my faults. (okay this is getting sappy) I guess in a nutshell I want to do this to improve my family life and to make sure that I am being the best husband and father to them that I can be. I mean I am not trying to get all mushy, sure I want to look good with my shirt off and be able to run the LA, Boston and NY marathons in one day but when it comes down to the core of it, I just want to feel better and be happy with myself.
So this is day one people. The holidays are winding down and 2011 begins at 12:01 AM. I am excited, I am pumped and most of all I am optimistic (which most people that know me will tell you is a word that I don't use a lot) I feel like if I can put down into writing what is going on with my day to day life that I can be more accountable for my actions and maybe even garner a little support along the way. I have never down anything like this before and am learning as I go. Hopefully I can figure out how to post pictures one day so at least you wont be to bored reading about how many push ups I did this morning or how many ways I can prepare chicken. My goal with all this is just to say "Hey this is what is happening with my life and my struggles or accomplishments as I try and get back into shape and better myself"
Feel free to leave me some advice , I need all the help I can get at this point and appreciate anything you can add to make this fun and exciting.
Here we go....
