2010, Nintendo, WeightBot, And How This Year Is Going To Rock!

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Sunday, 03 January 2010 21:28

2010, Nintendo, WeightBot, And How This Year Is Going To Rock!

Last Updated on Sunday, 03 January 2010 23:08 Written by Oddzuki

The End is the Beginning is the End.

It's a new year, the technical end of the decade has begun. It's a time of fresh starts for just about everyone wearing a party hat on December 31st at 11:59. Like hitting the reset button after crashing into the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros. You just can't let it start that way. For me, it's the end of a 3 year, self imposed, exile from exercising. Let me give you a little back story.

Sometime in 2005, I was in Blockbuster Video perusing for a good family flick to watch with the family. A little girl taps me on the shoulder and tells me that I look like Carl from Family Matters. I didn't take to lightly to that and that changed my lifestyle forever. At the time, I weighed 285lbs. For a guy who's 5' 7.5", that made my scale shudder anytime I even walked by it. I started eating right, stopped drinking coffee, no more fried foods, sugars, and had an instant turn into a health nut. It was brutal. Cutting out coffee completely when you are used to at the very least 5 cups a day will cause massive headaches, the shakes, etc. But I made it through. I also tried numerous weight loss methods of exercise:

Yourself Fitness (It was good, but a little slow for me)
The Biggest Loser (This worked tremendously well for the first few months. Kept me motivated while watching the show before I found out it was full of false advertising)
P90X (I stayed with this for 78 days of the P90X 90 day program. On day 78, my third child was born.)

And with my third child being born, and dropping over 95lbs down to 190lbs and feeling the most fit I ever have, my schedule was thrown to the wolves. multiple feedings in the middle of the night, getting our family to uproot and move from Florida to Georgia. It was a mess for an organized schedule. I stopped exercising, got back on the coffee wagon, and it slowly went downhill from there. Granted, I've only gained 30lbs back over the course of 2+ years which isn't the norm, but I've been wanting to get back to the old me.

Enter Project 52. I have to thank Anton for pushing bloggers to provide constant, good, content. Devoting one post a week at the very least isn't much to ask. I figure, what better way to keep me accountable than 52 weeks of showing my stats, keeping track, and opening a forum about my journey through weight loss? I'm going to attempt to use all of these digital tools available to me to keep me going, too. What's my recipe?

http://www.oddzuki.com
Weightbot by the wonderful guys at TapBots. You guys rock!
CalorieKing (Amazingly intuitive program, check it out!)
Wii Active for the Nintendo Wii (See Ma, video games CAN be good for you :P)
Eating healthy portions

I will weigh in every 3 days, and post the screenshot from Weightbot with each post for Project 52. I will also print out my Calorie King log (which will include my exercise times/calories burned) into a handy dandy spreadsheet for you folks to follow along. And last but not least, I will tweet & facebook about my journey as I do it! My goal is to lose 55lbs (down to 165). My lovely wife has set some rewards/milestones for me.

35lbs lost: Clothes Shopping
55lbs lost: Roland V series drum set (I can haz nao plz? I hadz the weight but losted it...)
If I keep the 55lbs off for the full 52 weeks, 3 tailor made suits. SWEET!!!!

Not a bad set of goals eh? So far, I've done the Wii Active workout 3 days in a row and I'm more sore now than I ever was doing P90X. Is that weird? Discuss!