Stupid Knees!

Today is a terrible day for me right now the knees are killing me and some other problems with my right foot in alot of pain so today im going to take it easy and walk 4 miles instead of the walk/run I've been doing. I was afraid this was going to happen, hurt the knee in May on vacation and now its bugging me alot, so in an attempt to give my knee a break I will walk instead of run. Plus tomorrow I will be hopefully picking up a trainer for my bike! It sucks that Cycle Sonic is closing but a plus for me because i may be able to get a steal of a price on a good trainer. So now I can ride my bike when it's cold outside and to be honest I'd rather be on my bike then running, I love riding too much.

The Push to Overcome the Laziness

Well last night was a long one. Went to the Balance and Composure, Tidal Fight, Bayside, and Senses Fail concert. Had a great time with awesome friends just wasn't in the greatest of moods. I don't know why i wasn't it was weird I felt misplaced for some reason, but luckily I have some great friends. after that headed back up the neighborhood hung out at some local bars then hit up the diner with some drunk hungry friends haha. Don't worry you two I love you two alot and you guys have shelter and fed me many of times. They know who they are.

Anyway after a long night and not getting in until about 4:30ish am, I woke up at 11am and it felt awesome to sleep that late again it's been a long time since i've done that. But in doing so I had the sudden urge to be really lazy and didn't want to go for a run at all! It was tough to finally get the motivation up to go and get moving, but lucky for me i have some great friends to help me get off my ass and get out there. I people understand when starting out on really anything having support and asking for help is the best thing possible.

So anyway did the 2 mile loop same as the past couple days just the second run i sprinted the last 50 yards, yeah it doesn't sound like anything special but it is to me. This is showing that i have the energy to push harder. Still a little sore but time to eat some food a little bit of meatloaf and mashed potato's.

Early Bird Gets The Worm

Thanks Alex for the title of this one hahaha. Anyways as it says I was up early today on my day off to go and take the last part of my CDL permit test, and I Passed!!!!! woot!! So to treat myself for that I decided why not go for another 2 mile walk/run (not really treating but just doing it earlier than usual). So i did just that, no timing or anything just wanting to finish the laps i start running which I have done so far and definitely felt shorter then yesterday too. I still have some things to do today before going out tonight, but i mite put them on hold i definitely want to get a nap in before going out tonight.

and well i'm at a loss for words so i'll end it here.

Second day of running/walking

So just got in a little bit ago from running/walking, I did good! I ran/walked around my development, I put it into mapmyrun.com and 1 time around my development is 0.4 miles. I went around 5 times walk,run,walk,run,walk. Do the math and that is 2 miles! My first 0.4 was roughly ran around in 4 minutes, the second run around I didn't time because I knew how my legs felt and knew it would be slower so really no need to time that lap yet. I did notice though, that my legs felt like I could of pushed them harder but because of the weight I am carrying it was just too much. So I take that as a good sign that I feel my legs are strong enough now to carry me later when I start to drop more weight, which is really exciting! I'm going to post up a Before picture tomorrow.

I didn't do any other workouts today so that will be tomorrow also.

Black Friday? what's that?

Another day another dollar, I have work today so no black friday shopping for me this year and I'm pumped I'm not in retail this year for it also, man was that crazy last year!

Anyway, I didn't get a run in yesterday after work :(. I was extremely tired, it was raining out, and I'm no going to attempt the treadmill at the house again since it almost took me out the other day lol. So I figured a free day a week was a good idea and made yesterday a free day I still very well, most likely ate around 2300 calories but it was better then i would of before so the calorie intake yesterday was still good.

Today after work I WILL be running as long as it's not raining again. I will keep the same pace with the running a lap walking a lap. I figure I'll keep at this until I i get my times on the laps up and work my way to running a full mile.

Well I have to go, at least have to squeeze breakfast in before I head out to work. Woke up a little late this morning lol.

A little bit of thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I have to work today so I will be getting to my turkey a little late today. I'm thinking a run maybe before i do? or maybe after. I'm not sure when but I will be running at some point today!

First workout

Ok so I know I said December 1st but hey why not get a head start?

So it's a little cold here in philly and well I need to do wash so I didn't have any semi warm clothes to run/walk in, so i decided to hit up the treadmill that never gets used in the basement. The treadmill tracks you in tenths of a mile and displays a circle to show a quarter of a mile. So what I did was walk the 1st quarter, jog the 2nd, walk the 3rd and jog the 4th. Therefor that is a mile all together and then walked another half a mile so in total it was a 1.5 miles run/walk. Only thing that was a bummer was this treadmill belt seems to have a weight limit because when i was jogging on both laps everytime i brought my foot down I would stop the belt, which by the way is really scary! I thought I was going down!

After that I that i decided I wasn't done so i did this little workout using just body weight.
2x20 jumping jacks
2x10 left side lunges
2x10 right side lunges
2x10 forward lunges
2x10 push ups
2x10 sit ups
30 scissor kicks with 5 second holds at the end of each set

20 second breaks in between but I had a good music station on the tv, so I was dancing in between. For those of you who don't know me I like to dance, so why not add it into the workout right?

Regardless I think this was a good first workout to get the blood flowing and burn some calories.

Early Blog

Ok this is going to be a quicky since I have to leave for work soon and want to get breakfast in.

So for breakfast today I'm having a bowl of Honeynut Cheerios with a sliced banana with 1% milk, not too sure the calories but I know it's alot better then going to Wawa and getting there 2 breakfast sandwiches for 3 bucks. So it's a start.

I also would like to thank everyone for showing me support and taking the time to read my first blog and texting me telling your there for me and there to help! So much thanks I want to send out and what a time to do it on Thanksgiving Eve!

I get done work/training at 2:00 today so i'm aiming on going for my first run/walk after work probably through the park about a two mile stretch from start to finish, with some hills in there.

This is all new to me

Ok so I'm not your typical Blogger so the reason for me making this to help myself track myself during my fight to stop being obese.

Anyway My name is Terry I'm 24 years old, I live in Philadelphia Pa. and I'm obese and tired of being your typical jolly fat guy because well it's depressing and I'm really not that happy at all. Your clothes never fit right, you tend to sweat alot for the fact of how much weight your carry with yourself, have a hard time doing simple things such as tying your shoe laces, which by the way i hate to share that because it is really really embarrassing.

But the Reason i started this to have somewhere to write about my progress with working on losing weight. I found my inspiration from a guy named Ben Davis here is a link to his Blog http://bendoeslife.tumblr.com/. This guy who is the same age as myself had the drive to absolutely change himself for the better and after reading all 200+ pages of his Blog and watching his youtube videos of his progress I decided it's time i took charge of obesity problem also.

Now the funny thing is I'm like a half active obese guy lol. I've rode two 75 mile bike events called the City to the Shore Its a bike ride from pretty much coast to coast of south jersey. My first year I did with my friend Jeff and we finished in just under 6 hours! Man was I so pumped about that but I also rode a crap ton before the ride, but I got lazy after it. This year I rode with 7 others and was so pumped but didn't train well at all and ended up paying for it. I ended up having something happen where I was dragging the back brake on my bike (no clue how it happened) this killed me, I used so much energy I didn't need to use. i think it took almost 8 hours to finish. EEK!

With that being said I was always a chubby kid but was very active when I was young. But since I haven't been active I've used that as an excuse. "I've always been big i just need to lose a little bit of weight and I'll be fine" WRONG. I may have wide shoulders and be able to "hide" my weight but I'm still obese. Right now I don't have a good working scale so I'm guessing my weight is somewhere between 310-320 pounds. That is just insane and super unhealthy and I need to change. I aims for some where in the 220-230 pound range, I dont see myself 200 or under lol.

So Starting December 1st I embark on my journey to lose this horrible weight! The next 2 weeks I'm using to get my diet in check get a good scale and get a good cardio and moderate weight training workout in order. Lucky for me I have some awesome friends who love to workout and run like crazy! So it's getting late and it's just about my bed time lol.

Goodnight.