Day 1

Welcome one and all to the public spectacle that is my journey to being an unstoppable force in my own life. I've spent the majority of life not really taking much risk, letting my fears and self-doubt control my actions and dictate my life. Apparently, that is the story of 95% of the population. It also seems that the majority of the population is either overweight or obese. I don't think I want to be in the majority anymore. I think I want to want to try and live life on the other side of the fence, on the side of the minority.

I am quite proud of myself. I made a rather good meal plan and stuck to it quite well. When I arrived home from work, I did my workout. I have an extensive collection of workout videos so variety isn't an issue. I also have push-up bars, PowerBlocks, and a yoga mat so I'm pretty well set to workout. I have everything I need. I did a workout today called UML (Upper Middle Lower) from the Power 90 Master Series to kick off the week with Gabriel, my other half.

I had actually meant to do Core Synergistics from P90X, but being that I'm still getting over the remnants of a cold, I didn't want to press my luck by pushing too hard to soon on a workout so I opted for UML which is a lighter version of Core. My intention is to do the Lean rotation of P90X with a few extra workouts thrown in. Obviously, if I feel like I'm over-training, I will back off, but I feel confident in my self in doing two-a-days. I want to see what I can accomplish in six-weeks time. Granted that puts me at the time of my wedding day. I have no illusions that I'll suddenly drop 50 lbs in six weeks and be at prime wedding weight. My goal is to push myself reasonably and safely and see how lean I can get. That will give me incentive to see what I can accomplish in another six weeks time and so on.

School starts back up next week; Wednesday to be exact. I received most of my books already for my courses. The rest will arrive on Monday so I'll be prepared. I'm looking forward to it, though I'm sure it means more papers to write. I was lucky that last semester I didn't have many research papers to write, but I can see where this semester things will be different.

Tomorrow, I shall post my measurements (which I took earlier in the week) and then chronicle my day. I feel quite good about today.

Rating for the day: solid 8