Slimmin' Sam

Well as my vague post alluded to yesterday, I think I have stumbled on something important to me. In fact, I believe in many ways I have been sabotaging myself since the inception of this blog. For the longest time I have wanted to lose weight.  It started off as being able to do more as well as being able to live a more active lifestyle.  Those aspects morphed into being a better father and husband, and finally it has ended up with me grouping my weight loss with my own value. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This will be short and sweet, but I think I just had an epiphany!  From sending a postcard to Jack Sh*t and reading many of Tony’s posts and thoughts about the whole premise I have had in place for the past year, many ideas have been flashing through my head.  On the 27th, this blog will celebrate 1 full year and I am excited to start a second year.  Even though I am excited, I have discovered much of what have built this journey on is a true sham.  I have been fooling myself on many fronts and it is time for me to deal with it.

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I just want to say thank you to all those who have left comments and sent messages this week. The hardest part of this journey is the mental aspect of the process.  I am still battling the notion of whether I am worth the end result.  My family has made sacrifices so I can go to a gym and have a trainer. The cycle I experience is one of guilt, then shame, then I give up.  I have been in this circular pattern for most of my life.  I realize that I still have a lot to do in my mind before I can make big gains physically. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Today I have been ruled by emotion.  All I want to do is go and eat everything that comes in my way. I think I need to take a step back.  I keep getting pulled into trying to feel popular on here with comments and twitter and I feel a bit ashamed of it.  Why am I still letting others qualify me.  Argg.

Anyway, I won’t be posting this week.  Hopefully I will step back to it and feel better about it all.  Sorry to be so pissy today.

Well, who would have thought I would actually have as much to say as I have.  100 posts of idiotic, crazy, and incomprehensible mayhem. I guess it wouldn’t be my blog if it all made sense or had a point.  I have written this blog in the same style of my thinking process, so I do have to apologize to you all who have stayed along for the ride. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I have actually had quite a few people message me and ask me what a GW Fit is and how does it work.  Well, I figured I would explain what it is and bring in some sources from Bodymedia.  This company makes three different versions of the same device.  The first is a BodyBugg, which most of you have seen on Biggest Loser.  The second is SenseWear, which is used mostly in clinical studies and hospitals.  Lastly, there is the GW Fit. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well, after prompting from my best friend Andrew, I have decided to bring back Weigh-Day Wednesday!  I needed to do this not only because he asked me to, but I know if I don’t keep myself accountable, I will just let it slide little by little.  I know this, because it has happened to me again.  I was down to 330 at the end of the No More Bacon Biggest Loser Competition.  In the weeks since that has finished, I find myself back up almost all the weight I lost during that time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well today was torture day and my compliments to Mike who not only enjoyed my pain thoroughly, but took too much pride in my decimation.  I did my workout in my New Balance 7500′s, but noticed they were too tight, so I am going to have to try something different.  Below was my workout for today. I looked back at what I used to do and to be honest, even though I was doing twice as much last year, these workouts seem to be doing sooo much at one time.

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I worked out this morning and I had my MP3 player in hand. I always get excited by music for many different reasons, but I found myself stopping working out to click through 4 of 5 songs before finding another one that would suffice. Needless to say I need a workout music makeover. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I am such an idiot sometimes.  That is the truth!  I don’t know why I title my posts with such names or I take such crazy pictures of myself, but it is fun (for me at least), so I guess it isn’t all that bad. After Mike destroyed me yesterday I could barely get up this morning.  I hit my snooze like 10 times before throwing myself out of bed to get to the gym.  I knew I couldn’t do any major cardio as the bottom half of my body felt like I was learning to walk for the first time.  Instead, I decided to spend about half an hour shooting basketball. It is a full body workout that may not be that intense, but still got me active.  And as the name supplies, I had to find a way to engage the ball in a way only I could… We started out as enemies and ended up great friends.  I would suggest you befriend the next ball you see….  BASKETBALL…  BASKETBALL… [Read the rest of this entry...]