Here At The Crossroads

I have been married now for almost two years (22 months) and I can attest that marriage can be, and in my case was bad for your health. I got married weighing in at approximately 185-190 pounds and have since packed on an additional 30-35 pounds and currently am sitting at a weight of 220. I have watched many things happen over the course of those two years. I watched my clothes all shrink, my energy levels decline, and my physical condition crumble. I find myself with joint pain, acid reflux, lack of energy, poor self esteem, et cetera, et cetera. The list goes on and on.

Clearly I don't blame marriage for my increased weight and the accompanying legion of other side effects, but I did find myself comfortable, complacent, and in a lot of ways sedentary. My food intake went up, and my energy output went way down, despite having a fairly physical job. My wife and I have had phases of ambition, we went to the gym for a good stretch of time consistently and I saw some improvement. Improvement that disappeared as soon as the gym got inconvenient. We ran a 5k at about the year mark of our marriage, and that was probably the pinnacle of our physical condition since.

So I have grown tired of watching my 'cute little belly' as my wife calls it, grow, my clothes not fitting comfortably, my mom exclaiming 'Dude, you've got man boobs!' when I wore a slightly tighter-fitting t-shirt, and mostly just being unhappy with what I feel like about myself. I owe credit to a cousin of mine whose YouTube channel I stumbled across. He is just beginning a channel about turning problems into passions, and something about the message he is sharing clicked in my brain. I decided to do something about my problem, but to make it a journey which I can share and bring others along for the ride. I plan on learning, experimenting, and trying to learn all I can about fitness, nutrition and overall self improvement. I don't expect to be perfect in this, but I expect myself to keep trying and to stick with it.

My goal to start with is vague and general - Get fit. But I plan on using the S.M.A.R.T. method for setting goals as I go and get into the swing of things. So my simple measurements as of right now are 220 lbs 29.8 BMI I will get into more specific measurements on the next post as I attempt to outline the way in which I want to tackle this project. In the meantime I will be making simple efforts to drink more water, move more, and eat less crappy foods) all in an effort to Fatty Cake Make It Shake!