Motivation for losing weight
So why I am doing this, you ask? Well, it's quite simple. As with a lot of people, my job requires me to sit at a desk for many hours of the day, usually more than 8. Since the birth of our first child, I have gained around 40 lbs and lost around 20 lbs of muscle and I really want to reverse this trend now while I am in my mid thirties rather than waiting until I am in my fourties to try to get rid of it.
When I was younger I was very health concious. Both sides of my family have a history of heart trouble and heart disease so I am a prime candidate for Angina or a heart attack. When I was younger I realized that I would be better off maintaining as healthy a lifestyle as possible as it would aid me in living longer. I became a vegan and avoided any and all animal products. Over time I began to feel as if I was missing something in my diet as I was esentally using sugar to maintain energy levels. I did some research and found that vegans have a hard time getting enough B12, something that is important for enegery levels. The drink Red Bull relies on caffene and B12 to give you energy. I looked for vegetable sources of B12 and there simply aren't any good ones so I tried a piece of cheese, felt so much better, like something had been replaced in my diet, and then never went back. Even started eating beef again, though only organic beef. Over the years of this change, I got heavier and heavier until now.
I have tried quite a few times to return to a healthier weight but each time I try something come up in my life which interrupts my attempts, something work related, something emotional, whatever it might be I end up gaining the weight back again and continually hovering around 245 lbs.
According to the Body Mass Index I am obese, which I am not sure is entirely correct because I certainly don't feel obese, but with a BMI of 33.2 I am 3.2 points into the obese category. If I put in my goal weight of 200 lbs it still states I am overweight, so I think the BMI has to be taken with a grain of salt. I put in 180 lbs, which I haven't weighed since I was 16 and it is on the cusp of normal and overweight. Obviously this index doesn't work well for people with my body type so I am willing to still work to achieve my goal of 200 lbs and a BMI of 27.1. For me to be in the middle of the nromal weight range I would have to weigh 160 lbs. I weighed 160 lbs in grade 8 running 13 second 100 m sprints. I don't think I am going to make it to 160 lbs.
Back to the why. I figure that if I cronicle the efforts I am making to lose weight it will help me two fold, one it will help motivate me because I will be reminded that I haven't updated the site in a while and therefore have fallen off the wagon as it were and I hope to be able to provide useful information for others on nutrition, weight loss and exercise so that they can become healthier as well.
Many of the things I have learned about health over the last 20 years I take for granted that everyone else knows them, like they are common knowledge but I realize now that is simply not true. Most people have no idea what it is to eat well, they know they need vegetables in their diet but they thing that frozen supermarket peas are a vegetable. They never eat fresh salads or fruit and they have a diet that is excessive in caloric intake and fat consumption because that is what their body is demading. The answer to changing that is to cleanse the body first before you attempt to lose the weight. A cleanse is very important to rid the body of toxins before you begin to lower your fat percentages. This makes it a lot easier to resist the cravings when you are ready to start the weight loss.
Please read through the site, get a feel of what I am trying to do and I hope that I can provide some inspiration of information for you to be able to do the same thing.
Wish me luck!
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