The reason I want to change is simple, I hate who I am.
I hate looking in the mirror and seeing how out of shape I am. I hate how fat I've gotten, how lazy I've gotten and all together I hate how out of shape I've gotten. I don't like thinking back to recent history when I was just graduating from high school or when I was in the Marines. Graduating High School I weighed about 165 pounds and ran cross country, I loved running even. Now I'm 210 pounds and I wish I could run like I used to. In the Marines I was fit, I weighed 170 and could do anything I had to do in my life as an Infantryman.
So, I was fed up with who I was. I've been reading a lot of magazines and trying a lot of things but I haven't been able to do very well. Normally when I start a program I am too lazy and don't stick with it. I've tried to change my lifestyle for eating, diets don't work, but I love to eat the wrong foods too much, and I do.
Reading through the most recent issues of my favorite magazines I saw this contest, Physique Transformation. It looked cool, grand prize a 1998 Corvette, I love corvette's and this would be an awesome way for me to get one instead of spending $45K to get one I just have to spend some time and effort to get an awesome body. So, I ask myself, How can this be a scam? I look at the pictures from last years contest, sure they went from out of shape fat guys like me to ripped guys in 12 weeks or 15 weeks. Yeah, right.
I'm always the skeptic, so I put the magazine away and try to do some work. I can't think, I pick up the contest ad and look over it again. I'm looking at the corvette, and at how different the winners look, and how much better they look. I start thinking to myself, damn, what I wouldn't give to get the cut or that big or that fit. So I read all the rules and see what I have to do and how to do it. Finally I decide that this is my chance, I have to take it or I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror any more.
I'm so psyched about this contest right now. I want to get it started so fast I can almost taste it. I have to wait on one thing, my body fat measurements, I'm getting that done today. I'll get the body fat done, take pictures today, start loading Betagen and lifting tomorrow.
This is why I want to change. I'm going to change.
I'm going to start a journal, I'll put it up here too, so you can see how I'm feeling everyday, what's going through my head, if I see any changes or if my goals are changing. Anything that I'm thinking about this contest, and changing my life I'll put in my journal.
What can you do to help?
Read my journal, follow my pictures and all my weights and measures, watch and see if they are changing. Send me an email and tell me what you think. If you can give me words of encouragement or suggestions, or places where I can get deals on supplements or anything that you think that can help send them my way. I WILL answer every email response I get, I'm busy, I'm a college student at one of the toughest schools in the nation, trying to change everything about my personal fitness but I'll do it. It will remind me of what I am doing and to make me do it.
Thank you for your interest. Please check back, not here this probably won't change, but at my journal or my main page