Day 1 - Rebooted

Four years have passed, and I have been doing a bit of a postmortem of my fitness and health over the last few years. We all remember my amazing effort to slim up in 2015 for my 40th birthday.

Since then, I gained all that weight back and I can't help but to wonder why. I recently had an interesting experience with a scale. I got on it in the morning, and I already wasn't feeling too great about my weight. I knew just from how my cloths fit, or rather no longer fit, that I was going to be disappointed by the results. I was even more shocked when the scale screamed at me to get off! That's right, I got ERROR! Joking aside, I reset it, and then I weighed in at 215 pounds. I was right, very disappointed! All that hard work in 2015 completely gone, and I felt totally defeated by life.

So today is the start of my fitness reboot. I'm back on the mission and I realized that I need to set some ground rules for success to happen. First, I need a goal! I want to lose 35 to 40 pounds in the next three months. It is a bit aggressive, but I do believe that setting aggressive goals that challenge us is super important. The second ground rule is that I need to care. As I reflect in my postmortem of my health and fitness, I realized that I just didn't care enough to take my health and fitness serious. That burger just looks and tastes so good, and I stack a large fry with it. Gluttony has gotten the better of me far too often in the last 4 years and I realized that I eat all the feelings.

Today, I'm learning to care. Care about what I eat and care about how many calories in versus how many calories I burn. I am learning to care about not eating that candy that some awesome person put on my desk. I'm also learning to care about how to break my bad habit's so that I can successfully reach my goal. The way I see it, is that I only seem to do anything when I actually care about something.

I think another important thing is to care about the right things and stop caring about the wrong things. There are more important matters at hand than eating all the things. I need to care about work, spending time with my wife, going on trips or hikes. After all, spring and then summer is coming right around the corner! There are lots of things to care about that fall more in line with my goal and thus I will spend some time to care about the right things.

The status report for today. I started Orange Theory, it a is a fitness class which I find to be very challenging. It is kind of like a Cross Fit, except they focus on training your body to recover faster. So you start with a warm-up, then quickly move to high exertion. Once your heart rate is in the red-zone, it is time to bring it back down. Allowing your body to recover between each set. We also alternate exercises, which I do fancy. Spend a few minutes all out on a treadmill, then move to something a bit more chill like the rower or lifting some weights. Then rotate back into the treadmill for more power running.

The evaluation is based on how many "splat points" you get. The more the better, and today I got 45 spat points and burned a whopping 946 calories!



As you can see, I was in the red-zone for quite a while. I felt like I was going to die! I wanted to give up so bad, but I kept looking at myself running in the mirror and telling myself that I care! I'm going to do this, I'm going to succeed!

60 days of fitness for this fat old man, Day 1 - Rebooted. I've got a new, and long road ahead; which I'm both excited and scared. Wish me luck!