Daily Progress day 1 of 63 - pt1. update later this evening.

Hey Board,

So today begins my journey with weight loss (26/m/5'6''). I started this about two years ago with a personal trainer and I lost a ton of weight. I was 163 two years ago and over the course of a year through diet and exercise, I ended the year at 135! I was stoked! I continued to work out on my own and then picked up long distance running (hence the username). My lowest weight was 122! I was shocked to ever be that weight but I enjoyed it! I was more or less at 125 for the most part.

Now, about a year and change later, I'm at 140. Ugh. I started a new job that has me at a desk 95% of my day - my previous job had me on my feet at least 80% of my day. I just completed my first year and I felt stressed out for a long period of time, I gave into new co-workers when they offered me snacks (I had to kind of fit into the new group of people I was now working with), I had to learn new systems for work, and I got engaged and my fiance was stressed with my new job and the work requirements. My workouts prior to my new job and now fiance were in the evening as I could go to the gym as late as I wanted to and come home and be accountable for myself. Now, with the new job, I really don't know what my afternoon schedule might be and if I do go to the gym in the afternoon, I'm scared my fiance is going to freak out when I come home at 7pm - at that point I missed dinner with her.

I know. Welcome to real life kid.

So I have a plan. I want to go back to 127 pounds and I am going to give myself 9 weeks to cut 13 pounds. Now, I know some people might reply with "that's too much weight in such a little amount of time." I don't think it is and that is my goal to accomplish. I will be watching my weight, evaluating what I eat, and going to the gym. Now, I literally have a month vacation starting today where I have no responsibilities. With that free time, it will allow me to target my workouts at one hour and then allow me to do whatever extra I want to burn more calories - for example: Do my hour workout and then go for a fun swim afterwards. All my workouts will have to be at 5am because I need to get back into the routine of waking up early and completing the workout. I can not do any work outs in the afternoon because my schedule is unpredictable.

Yes, did I name excuses, yep. Was I in control? Yes. Did I give up control? Yes.

So my posts from this point onward will be in the following format (please forgive my anxiety for structure)

Gym:
Meals:
Daily Struggle(s):
Game plan for tomorrow:

I would love for anyone to cheer my on and also comment on their journey as well!

In good health,

iruntx131