Ok, i am here! Where are you?

Hey you- just dropping in to say WORK IT! ;-)

Steve, you have done a GREAT job so far! Keep up the good work. WE all little set backs from time to time. But...I know you can reach your goal my friend!

Taffy

Yah!! Good to hear you are giving it a great go!!! Ive been at the gym daily about 5am... 3 days cardio 3 days weights. Its coming off and toning up.. the coming off part seems slow but the toning up is looking good and the inches coming off the waist is nice.. pants fit out of the dryer.. ;)
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Dea

Steve... Where are you??? Now is the time to buddy up with your goals!!! Let me know if I can help!!
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Dea

GREAT to see you back!!!! I am back as well!! WE can do it Steven!!!!! Grabs your hand and takes ya with me!!!
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Dea

It's me again! I've changed jobs, coped with all the nonsense that entails, and went on a cruise. As you can imagine, my body is not happy with me at this point. I slid back from the solid 300 lbs I enjoyed reaching to a tentative weight of 340 lbs. I say tentative because I weighed right after returning from the cruise and we're thinking there's some water weight to be lost first. More on this soon.

I hit the gym this morning for a half hour and I can feel it. I haven't quite started at square one, but I'm darn close. Staying on the treadmill at a decent speed is difficult and my muscles have mostly atrophied from the stud-muffin size they were when I was going 5-days a week.

The new job entails 50% travel, so eating well and not overeating is a constant challenge. It's one I'm excited to take on! Who's with me?!

I'm back to the usual flow. The last two weeks, in the gym at 4am.

Looking forward to watching your progress. Keep at it... you WILL achieve success!!!
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Dea

Steven your story is great. Thanks for sharing.

Happy New Years folks! Here's to kicking ass in '07.

After yet another brief hiatus I'm back and kicking. I did 6 miles even on the bike tonight.

Another 45 minutes on the elliptical tonight. I'm doing good with getting into the gym at least once a day either in the morning or evening. The time really flies if I've got a podcast to listen to and focus on while I'm doing it. Keith and The Girl works nicely because it's 45m to an hour.

This morning I started my new routine. Thanks again to Nick for helping me get it all organized. I did 45 minutes on the elliptical this morning and I'll be headed back this afternoon for some weights.

I was in California for the Portable Media Expo so my data is falling behind a bit. I'm going to throw information in for today and then we should be back on track.

Hey Steven

Sounds like you've probably put on muscle mass, and loss fat! I always find that when I start working out again my weight tends to go up, and fast.

Max

So I'm back to where I started. The difference is that I can ride my bike over 11 miles in a single run and I'm able to hang on the elliptical longer. Something must have changed.

Tonight we took our friend out for their respective birthdays. There was much drinking but I tried to limit my intake to tequila, vodka (no sugar!), and some Michelob ultras. There was pool and even a little DDR if you can believe it!

WOOT!

The biking has really helped strengthen my legs and build my endurance. Tonight I hit up the gym for a little chest exercise and rounded it out with 20 minutes on the elliptical. I sat at my target heart rate for the entire time -- kick ass!

In my defense, I would have gone longer but I'd also done about 45 minutes of DDR this afternoon as well.

Thanks Kelley!!

That's right boys and girls, no exercise for me yesterday. Life happened and I had to resign myself to not getting any in. Today I'm going to either hit up the DDR or do a little wet biking. It just started raining her so I've got to decide how I'm going to change up my workouts.

Running is tempting.

Awesome pic of you revolutionizing the dance dance! I'm totally in love with that game - what a great workout! Unfortunately my male roommies are always playing on the Xbox so I don't get as much DDR time as I'd like, but oh well...

Keep up the great work!

Today I up'd my calories. It worked before to get me out of a rut so we'll see where we're at by Friday.

Tonight my wife and I decided to take a walk. When we left the sun was out and I was sporting my shades. By the time we got back to the house it was dark. I think once you deduct the time at Starbucks sipping on bottled water and waiting for my smoothie it was probably 45 minutes total.

I'm still rocking the bike riding. I picked up a video iPod and am enjoying it quite a bit. Today I'm going to see if I can run a full 10 miles (this time on purpose).

I kicked up the difficulty on DDR to 'difficult'. I'm hitting the songs that are 4-5 feet and it's some non-stop craziness. This time I picked up a 1.5 litre bottled water at the corner store before I went. It cost me less than 2 bucks and the ones Big Al's sells are 2 bucks and some change for a dinky size. Frugality for the win!

I biked 4 miles with Rob out by the Lacamas lake before he picked up his daughter from cross-country practice. Then, I went back out and played DDR *hard* for 2 hours (probably 1h 45m after breaks when I had to start sharing the machine).

Again I headed to the bowling alley for some DDR love. Kimie came by with the family and shot a few pictures, so I bring you... ME ON DDR!

Hey Steven -
Good to hear there's more WoWer's out there. :D
And I'm reading the other comments on here and it looks like you're doing great - I love DDR, too, but I have a bad knee so can't do much with it for very long. :)

Today I rode a touch under 10 miles. Tonight my wife and I hit up the new bowling alley and I played DDR for about an hour. My legs are begging for sleep, but I feel darn good.

One kid who was playing there in between my turns on it tapped me on the arm as I was leaving and told me I did really good. I think my head inflated instantly.

hey Steven,

I know the under 300 challenge. Chin up - keep riding and you'll surprise yourself and be under!

Nikki

Day 2 of the fight. I had lunch with a co-worker which wasn't in the plans, but I chose my food sensibly: a roasted chicken salad with honey mustard dressing. I still have my SmartOnes meal that was intended to be my midday meal in the fridge. I'll have that in a little while.

The ride home from work is hard.

YEAH! I LOVE that kind of attitude!

That's the same conversation I had with myself before attacking my goal with... well, not wreckless abandon, maybe well thought-out abandon? :)

Sub-300! DO IT!

I'm tired of the 300-310 yo-yo action. Today it stops. I weighed in at 300 lbs this morning for the last time. Next week it's going to be under 300. Mark my words.

Awesome job Steven and keep going! I'll be listening to your podcast now that I know about it.

Make this a life-long pursuit and don't mind the bumps in the road on the way to becoming healthy.

Glad you found the posting about Exercise Radio useful. Digitally Imported is a good source for pumped-up music, too.

Would you let me know when you post your entry about recording the stream? I'd like to learn how to do that.

Steve,

Thanks so much for the good words you've left me. I will definitely check out Geekfit as well. I'm loving this community so far, although I know its still growing everyone seems so positive and interested in sharing their experiences with what has worked for them personally (and what hasn't). Keep it up, I see you've already lost 2lbs. the first week!

Cheers,
Suzanne

Hi Steve,

I be happy to help motivate you...but it says you have no space for a motivator. Maybe the space is already filled? Anyway....if you like more info on TOPS let me know. There may be a chapter in your area you can attend.

Have a successful day!
Heather*