One week on this site and I think MFP is so....

....addictive.

Hey, what’s good FitnessPals…..

This is officially my 7th day on MFP, and I have to say it is the best thing since Arnold’s Double Protein Slice Bread! My best friend texted me last Monday while I was at work and told me to check it out. I created an account and begin moving around within the diary/tools/blogs the best I could.

So let me introduce myself. I grew up a skinny kid, and was never really an athlete by any means…In fact I played percussion in marching band in High school. I always wore bagging clothes. I would say I was trying to embrace the hip-hop dress code, but I was really hiding my body. I didn’t like the way I looked. I didn’t really love myself. After college I realized I was gaining weight, but I still looked skinny…I was about 40 lbs overweight…....I called my self skinnyfat….it’s where I had noodle arms, bird chest, and a beer gut….So at age 29…I set out to change the way I look and the way I felt about myself. I started to first accept who I was and love who I was, but improve myself in all aspects. I read every men’s fitness/health fitness magazine available, asked questions to whoever I saw going hard in the gym. I was/am a sponge to learn and do what I could to improve who I am/was. I hit a lot of walls, and had MANY setbacks, even injuries…I still have a ways to go. In my change/transition, people started to challenge me and ask questions like “why you are not eating cake at the office party, why won’t you come with us to McDonald’s, why are you always dissing us for happy hour and going to the gym”. I told them to leave me alone, I wanted to have Usher abs, They would laugh or say IMPOSSIBLE.. Never let anyone put you down or tell you that you can’t do something. I bought a shmedium shirt and said “No more bagging Clothes, I will work out and change myself to fill out this shirt” I literally tried that shirt on every Friday until my arms could fit in there snugged…so yea…a freaking red shmedium shirt was part my motivation… lol

A quick overview of my nutrition and workouts. Mid Oct through Mid April I average roughly 2400 Calories per day, and Mid April to Mid Oct I average about 3000 cals per day. This is because I do more two a days during the Apr-Oct time frame than I do during the Oct – Apr timeframe. I am not a professional fitness person AT ALL…but I do call my 2400 cal my offseason(maintaining). I do not bulk during winter like a lot of lifters do. I have three workouts I like to do(which I rotate either weekly or every 3 months)….I basically do Heavy Cardio in the Mornings, and Heavy Lift with a light cardio in the evenings. I work abs 4 days a week.

So that pretty much sums me up….Feel free to add me to your list or send me message to give me advice or ask questions. I learn from everyone (no matter what level you are at, if you are a man or woman, old or young.) Just in these 7 days I have been on here I have learned a lot of new things to eat, workouts to do, and great people who are so compassionate and commited. Keep em coming …and keep me motivated I will do the same.

Mercenary