The Bitter Pill About Weight Loss

When I first started this site, I had the goal to turn this into a coaching type site, where I could take my new found success and share it with the world – inspiring other dads to do the same thing.

That was Janurary of 2020.

In case you didn’t know, March of 2020 is when the dreaded COVID-19 virus hit America. We went into a 2 week lock down – that lasted 6 months. More restrictions, more mandates, more deaths.

In fact – as I sit here and write this points – October 18th 2021, I am on my last day of isolation after contracting the COVID-19 virus. Yes – more than 18-months later than that first lock down, I contracted the virus. I am vaccinated, young(ish) and healthy – and I still got it.

But I digress.

This post is more of writing about the past 18-months than my current state of battling the virus. And in those 18-months, the sheer lack of anything physical activity that mad me go right back to where I was.

It has been such a crazy time.

But ain’t that life? You get on a roll, you get some success in whatever you are doing, and here comes life, screaming right in your face (not wearing a mask no less) and pushing you back down to where you started.

Sure – I should have done more. I should have had the crazy discipline to still get the work in no matter what the outside world brings in. I still should have had the energy to continue to find a way to get in the work outs – hell I have all the tools at home!

But alas, I did not. I fell victim to the excuse. To our own human nature. I saw COVID-19 as the backfall to why I don’t want to work out in a cold gym. Why it’s OK to drink more than normal again. Why cheating on the diet (for 18-months) is understandable given all we have been through as a society.

And you know what – I partly believe that. What we have endured in 2020 and 2021, and quite possibility into 2022, is nothing short of a mere miracle.

We adjusted work schedules. We adjust family schedules. We adjusted school schedules. We bobbed and weaved through the unknow. We found toilet paper. We wore masks. It was truly an unprecedent time we went through.

But for me – and for most of us I think – we rested on the unknown. We got stuck. We stopped. And we used the COVID 19 pandemic as an excuse.

Yes – you used the pandemic for an excuse.

What that excuse is dependent on you. Some used the excuse as a driver to get shit done. Others (and I lump myself in this bucket) used it as an excuse for nothing.

For not getting ahead.

For not working out.

For drinking too much.

For not being as present as I know I can be.

I mean come on – it’s a global pandemic. Why not take it easy?

It was just easier. It was easier to ignore everything else and go the easy route. I typically am not an easy route person – but here I was. And the easy route I did take.

The result? Weight gain. Laziness. Complecency.

And I am better than that.

I am not sure what the turning moment was for me. There wasn’t a rock bottom moment. There wasn’t a wrinkle in time where I saw 20/20 the vision of the future. I am not really sure what changed. But I woke up. I realized I was stuck in the rut of life and it was time to get out. And it was time to get out as fast as I could.

Now – I am no where close to the finish line. In fact, one could argue that I just passed the start line. But the decision was made to get my ass where it needs to be (smaller) and do it with a fury of 1000 men.

This site was supposed to be my glory site, writing articles for mere mortals to copy me. Instead – I ate a big piece of COVID-19 humble pie. This will not be my glory site. It with be my gory site. A personal journal of all the gory details of what goes on from here on out trying to get my ass into shape.

Starting Weight: 199.7 lbs.

Goal Weight: 170 lbs.

To your health…