Toomestwin

I'm a guy, so my perspective is going to be different. While I'm happy with the progress I'm making, it's certainly costing me money buying new clothes. I've gone through one rotation of new clothes. Getting rid of the original wardrobe was easy...but getting rid of the new set was hard because I just bought them not too…

I donated the good ones to charity and threw the rest away. This was an easy decision for me.

I have a wake-up routine I do every morning that now involves push-ups on the Bosu ball and various types of abs exercises (sit-ups/crunches, Bosu ball, stability ball, ab roller, etc) and a quick session skipping rope. That takes up about 20 minutes just to "jump start" my day. Otherwise, I run three days a week and lift…

I got cocky. I was always in great physical shape my whole life, especially while I was in the military. I was one of those hard-charging paratroopers and could eat whatever I wanted and burn it off the next day. After I retired from the Army, I still went to the gym but also dined out more, especially with all of the…

I weigh myself once a month...on the first day of the new month. I can tell during the course of the month that I'm losing weight because of how loose the clothes feel, but I resist the temptation to hop on the scale right away. This helps me from psyching myself out if the weight isn't what I think it should be. Right now…

Numbers Schnumbers! Look at what you've accomplished so far! That alone is enough to inspire the rest of us, so hang in there! For me, the only numbers that really count are like blood pressure, pulse, cholesterol level and blood sugar count. Everything else is just nice-to-know. Keep up the great work!

I first heard the term when I went to Airborne School (paratrooper training) a very long time ago. I was still in college and one of my close friends was a girl who was a year ahead of me. She was very pretty, in great shape and mostly dressed in jeans but certainly turned a lot of heads whenever she wore a skirt. She…

San Antonio. Moved here back in 2001 because of all the family owned Mexican restaurants. That ended up being a problem....about 50 to 60 extra pounds worth of problem for me. That's probably the biggest challenge for me now: keeping a healthy control on tacos, enchiladas, frijoles, tostadas, aros con pollo and all the…