Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
What defines you? What makes you who you are? For me it is my family. I have a wonderful wife and a 2 1/2 year old daughter with another little one on the way which we actually find out the gender of this coming friday. I wanted to make sure I was going to be around for a long time for my family and with my recent weight gain that was not something I was terribly confident in happening.
I guess a good place to start would be to tell you more about myself and my background. I started to heavily workout in high school around 2006 which continued until about 2009 when life started to get too busy for me to fit the gym into my schedule. I met my wife in 2015 and made the decision to move from my home in South Carolina to Illinois in order to be with her that same year. That is also the same year that we found out we were expecting our first child. After the birth of our daughter is when my weight gain started to increase and my health started to decrease. I didn’t think much about it then and life continued until we decided we were ready to add the last piece of the puzzle to our family with a second child. That’s the point I took a long hard look in the mirror and knew I needed to make a change.
I started with small changes like cutting out soda and not eating snacks out of the vending machines. As I started sticking with these it got easier to make other changes like taking healthier lunches to work and making healthier dinners. Resisting the constant flow of snacks and food that came to work too a little extra time but eventually I didn’t have to think twice to say “no thank you” to that as well. The last and for me the hardest change came next which was to add exercise back into my routine. This was something I hd been dreading because I knew I would be comparing myself now to how I was before I stopped. I started with couch to 5k which was difficult for me at first with all the extra weight and lack of cardio conditioning for so long but as the weeks continued to pass by it was getting increasingly easier.
This brings me to where I am now on the journey. I run every other morning at least and do in home body weight exercises as well. I still have a ways to go on my weightloss journey but so far have dropped from a size 38 pant size to a 34 but they are a little tight. I have a cheat meal once a week to keep me from falling off the band wagon completely. For me this is not simply about losing weight. It is about creating a healthier lifestyle for myself and my family. As I continue this blog I will share with you the supplements I take as well as my meals. I will share the workouts I go through that work and I hope that through this I can help inspire others to take the leap to a healthier lifestyle.
Journey with the Walkers 