Well... as you might have guessed I am a BIG Fight Club Fan. :) My all time favorite site on the web is http://www.sparkpeople.com/ Mr. Durden runs Project Mayhem with his space monkeys...What a better way to combine the two than create my own team on my all time favorite site. The name of the team is Project Mayhem and I am captain of the team... therefore... CPT. SPACEMONKEY! Read the book or watch the film... there is all kinds of twisted logic in it! (really!)
I am passionate about fitness and weight loss and I have found that being an inspiration to others helps fuel my own goals as well. I am not perfect in this journey... no one is, however it is my goal to show you through my own experiences that there is a way out. There is hope. I started this journey 2 years ago weighing in at an all time high of 320lbs. Through the help of two very caring men, and the help of Spark People I lost 165 lbs. I did it without pills, without fad diets, and I did it without feeling deprived. At my peak I could deadlift, I could do an acre of walking lunges with a 50 lbs weight on my back. I worked out 90 minutes a day 6 days a week. Then.... the unthinkable happened.
I was 20 lbs within my goal weight when I had to have hip replacement surgery. It TOTALLY derailed me. It made me forget everything I had learned. I gained back 85 lbs of what I had worked so hard to get off. It got the best of me. BUT... because of what I have learned previously, I know I can get back there. I know I can do this again on my own. I know I can do this again one small step at a time. So... hopefully you will join me as I take this challenge on again, one day at a time and share in my victories and in my disappointments. Visit my spark page and you can get the whole story. For now, for me this is a jumping off point. I am jumping off the ledge and into the deep end of the pool again hoping I won't drown.
Some of what I hope to accomplish here is accountability. Much past that I am not sure where this will take me but going into the unknown is better than sitting on my ever enlarging ass! :) I will post more tomorrow about some of my thoughts and realizations this weekend ( planning, sleep, starting over, etc.) but I am done for tonight. My one goal was to get this dang thing up and started... so there!
You're not gonna drown, I won't let ya! I'm very proud of you for taking the chance on life again. It's scary and hard and frustrating, but I have to believe that it's worth it!
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