Over the last 18 months I have been on a journey to get healthier. I’ve completed the first stage of my plan by loosing 40 lbs. I started out weighing in at 238 lbs and I managed to get down to 188 lbs. Some of it has come back but I belive I have leved off. I’m currently at 198 lbs. What I did to loose the weight was go back to the gym and make better food choices.
For the most part it hasn’t been difficult for me. I had plenty of experiance in the gym back in my eary twenty’s and I know what exercises work best for me. My main focus was to incorporate a consistent cardio program along with the weight training. Knowing that I’m no longer in my twnetys I made sure to start off slowly. At first I simply waked on the treadmill for 30 minutes. Then I would work with the free weights and some of the machines. As my workouts became easy I would gradually increase my speed on the treadmill and increase the weights. This can be the tricky part if you don’t know your limits. As far as my food choices went that was simple. Rule one, no fast food! Rule two, no fried food. Rule three, no large meals. I tried to snack often and limit my carbs.
I’m adding something to the blog just for the simple fact that I’ve neglected it for so long. I really have nothing to say at the moment. I just recently celebrated my 42 birthday. Let me think, what else has happened since my last post. We had a strong wind storm here and I took a picture of the damage done to a billboard. You can see it in the right column of the blog. Right now everything is going well for me and my family. I guess there isn’t much to say.
I took the family on a 4 day trip to Lookout Mountain, GA this week. We had a pretty good time up there. Unfortunately we only had 1 day where we could do some hang gliding. Here’s a video I shot while up there..
My daughter, Grace, had an assignment at school to make a 30 second presentation on recycling. Well we decided to make a video featuring her as a superhero. I wanted her super hero name to be “White Trash”. I thought it was funny. Here’s the video we made….
 Gracie was asked to write an essay at school and the subject was “Places We Love in Gaffney”. They wrote an article in the newspaper about it and printed her essay! I think she did a wonderful job.
