Getting back in shape is always an iterative process, just like software design.  It is never bug free and all issues can be tracked back to the developer –- you.  Like I said earlier, getting in shape has been a goal of mine for quite some time.  In the past it has hit roadblock after roadblock… unfortunately those roadblocks turned out to be pizza, brownies and ice cream.  Now I am serious.

You know, a curious thing happens when you are serious about something – you see results.  Think about it, you dieters, and let’s be honest now.  You complain (just like I have for the past three years) that the diet is not working, but in reality it is you that is not working.  Yeah, I said it.  But I can now say it with confidence because I have realized that it is not a single action, but a cumulative action, and I’ve learned this the hard way.

For someone who came from the level that I was at and falling to such depths of weight gain, it was difficult.  I had to make a conscious decision to make an impact on myself.  I knew that I had tried this before with no luck… I’d go a week or two at the gym only to figuratively give up, thinking it was enough.  But it never was, and weeks later I’d look back regretting that I didn’t stick with the workouts.

And the eating… don’t get me started on that.  When it comes to food, I am compulsive, but we’ll save the details for another day, just suffice it to say that I had no control.  I mean, seriously, who doesn’t love great tasting food!

But now I decided to make myself accountable, and for the past 5 weeks I have been up at 5am or earlier and on my way to the gym.  Heck yeah it was tough.  Between the lack of sleep and the utter pain my body was enduring, it was enough to make me cry (and I am not going to admit whether I did or not).  But looking back, it really wasn’t a difficult decision. It was simply becoming “in control” of my own destiny.

And the results speak for itself: