Good Morning

Hello everybody, Been lurking for several weeks, thought I would introduce myself. I'm a long, tall, Texan, (or at least I used to be many years ago). I was always fit when I was younger, used to like to run a lot. Then came marriage, career and kids. Seemed like there was never enough time to do things like run or exercise. Fortunately, I had a pretty active job that helped keep the weight off. That eventually led to a desk job where I found the most strenuous thing I had to do was stretch a finger up to the number row. The weight started slowly packing on, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, now up to 15 years at the desk and its like one day I see me in a picture with my teenage daughter and it dawns on me, I am old and fat. But I didn't do anything about it because I'm supposed to be old and fat, I've earned it. Didn't know how much a weighed because we didn't own a scale. Well my wife and I decided we are going to do a Caribbean cruise for our 25th anniversary and she started loosing weight just over a year ago. She convinced me to start walking with her. I remember that first, one mile walk. It was tough. Dang, I couldn't believe I had gotten that out of shape. We broke down and bought a scale but I didn't care to see how much I weighed. Last years doctor's visit had me borderline high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Went on medicine. Still made the excuse, it's because I'm old. My wife kept talking about she was going to get skinny for our 25th anniversary cruise. Didn't really buy it because I had heard it before a dozen times. It always petered out after a few weeks. But she kept dieting and exercising till she was down 40 lbs. She convinced me to join a gym. That's when I decided to get serious about my weight loss. Not sure what my highest weight really was, I had been walking for a few months before I weighed myself and then I was at 245. Started doing weights and mild cardio at the gym and still walking at home. Worked my way down to 222 when I started looking for a weightloss app to help me out. My wife said this is the best one out there so here I am. She is actually using a different app and site because that is where she started and she doesn't want to lose all her info.

So here I am, roughly 6 months after starting my weight loss. I am now down to 206, blood pressure normal, resting heart rate around 60, cholesterol normal, no medication, and capable of running (very slowly) for 5 miles, swim for 1/2 mile and bike for 15 miles. I'm training for a tri. Keep hoping they will have one in our area but they are kind of rare. Probably have to head over to one of the big city's to do one this winter.

Sorry, I can be a little wordy on occasion.