A Potted Plant
Honorary Sod
of being a fat dad!
Welcome to Max's self improvement thread, your home for everything MAX!!! As anyone from the OOS group will tell you, you will always have toooo much Max but just in case you haven't here is some more!!! Now to what I'm here for, I feel like crap and I think its because all I take in is crap, so I'm gonna start eating right, working out(Biking, running, lifting), sleeping right. After being at my highest weight in at 248 in May, I got down to 231 earlier this month and have been floating above that since then. I'm not going to be doing any diets or anything too strange I'm just going to be eating stuff in the right proportions and less junk(no more candy fast food and soda).
Work out plan, I use to do body weight and that's what I feel comfortable and safe doing alone. Also there is minimal equipment and I have a fitness playground thing a miles run from my house. Biking I'm going to try to do 2 times a week and run when I don't bike, tomorrow I plan to get my first run down and I'm aiming for 2 miles at about 11 minute pace to ease into it, plus I got so many hill by me, who ever thought putting mountains around here should be knee capped.
Working has been pointless since I've eaten like crap for so long I simply am going to cut my calories down to around 2k(going lower as what I'm eating gets better) and eat what my wife makes. I am going to continue eating my staples, rice and beans, while replacing rice sometimes with quinoa and other things which are better for you. Aside for counting calories, I'm going to fast to close my window of opportunity of eating since I basically eat for 18 hours out of the day, and I am giving up gluten. "Wait you said you aren't doing anything strange," sadly my son is allergic to gluten and I feel its important that he is able to eat off my plate so I think this is a life style change I should make for the sake of him. It should also help that I'm aiming to get 7 hours of sleep every work night and 8 on days off.
All those things are important for getting me to the general goal of not being a fat dad but I have more specific fitness goals that I've listed below as well as mental goals. Mentally I just want to make my self more available to my wife, I've been a very reserved(with feelings) person my whole life and I think expressing my self honestly will help continue to build on our relationship. I use to be not afraid of failure but as of late being out of shape has shaken my confidence into being scared of seeing what I'm no longer capable of. Frank has really helped me realign my expectations with what we could be capable of, as we grow in age doesn't mean we can't continue to physically develop. I'm going to start reading to prepare my self to go back to school in the next year and even start doing projects rather then watching TV, I work behind a computer and thats enough screen time I shouldn't be coming home and watching tv to unwind and my young son should be playing not having any nonproductive screen time. I think those few things will help me have a more positive outlook.
Physical goals,
I turn 27 on September 30th I'd like be 220 by then.
I signed up for the NY state police test with the expectation of being DQ'd(again) for being color blind I give my self 3 months(11/21/18) to be able to pass their test, 40 sit ups in one minute, 33 pushups and 1.5 miles in 11:58.
1st day of spring weight goal is 200 and participate in one race on bike or foot.
June 2019 be down to a 32 waist(36 today) which is what I wore in high school and it will be my 10 year anniversary of graduating, I don't plan on going lol.
I do have 2 request from my friends of MTBNJ keep me accountable, if you see me slacking call me out I respond best to that, and enjoy the thread we're all to serious in life crack jokes at my expense and its ok to laugh nothing is out of lines as long as it doesn't break the rules of the forum. Other then keeping track of my fitness I'm may also post some projects from metal, car crap, woodworking, and literally a bathroom remodel. I hope to push other people out their to better them selves and stop putting it off for tomorrow, like I've been doing for years, so I'm finally starting now!
Welcome to Max's self improvement thread, your home for everything MAX!!! As anyone from the OOS group will tell you, you will always have toooo much Max but just in case you haven't here is some more!!! Now to what I'm here for, I feel like crap and I think its because all I take in is crap, so I'm gonna start eating right, working out(Biking, running, lifting), sleeping right. After being at my highest weight in at 248 in May, I got down to 231 earlier this month and have been floating above that since then. I'm not going to be doing any diets or anything too strange I'm just going to be eating stuff in the right proportions and less junk(no more candy fast food and soda).
Work out plan, I use to do body weight and that's what I feel comfortable and safe doing alone. Also there is minimal equipment and I have a fitness playground thing a miles run from my house. Biking I'm going to try to do 2 times a week and run when I don't bike, tomorrow I plan to get my first run down and I'm aiming for 2 miles at about 11 minute pace to ease into it, plus I got so many hill by me, who ever thought putting mountains around here should be knee capped.
Working has been pointless since I've eaten like crap for so long I simply am going to cut my calories down to around 2k(going lower as what I'm eating gets better) and eat what my wife makes. I am going to continue eating my staples, rice and beans, while replacing rice sometimes with quinoa and other things which are better for you. Aside for counting calories, I'm going to fast to close my window of opportunity of eating since I basically eat for 18 hours out of the day, and I am giving up gluten. "Wait you said you aren't doing anything strange," sadly my son is allergic to gluten and I feel its important that he is able to eat off my plate so I think this is a life style change I should make for the sake of him. It should also help that I'm aiming to get 7 hours of sleep every work night and 8 on days off.
All those things are important for getting me to the general goal of not being a fat dad but I have more specific fitness goals that I've listed below as well as mental goals. Mentally I just want to make my self more available to my wife, I've been a very reserved(with feelings) person my whole life and I think expressing my self honestly will help continue to build on our relationship. I use to be not afraid of failure but as of late being out of shape has shaken my confidence into being scared of seeing what I'm no longer capable of. Frank has really helped me realign my expectations with what we could be capable of, as we grow in age doesn't mean we can't continue to physically develop. I'm going to start reading to prepare my self to go back to school in the next year and even start doing projects rather then watching TV, I work behind a computer and thats enough screen time I shouldn't be coming home and watching tv to unwind and my young son should be playing not having any nonproductive screen time. I think those few things will help me have a more positive outlook.
Physical goals,
I turn 27 on September 30th I'd like be 220 by then.
I signed up for the NY state police test with the expectation of being DQ'd(again) for being color blind I give my self 3 months(11/21/18) to be able to pass their test, 40 sit ups in one minute, 33 pushups and 1.5 miles in 11:58.
1st day of spring weight goal is 200 and participate in one race on bike or foot.
June 2019 be down to a 32 waist(36 today) which is what I wore in high school and it will be my 10 year anniversary of graduating, I don't plan on going lol.
I do have 2 request from my friends of MTBNJ keep me accountable, if you see me slacking call me out I respond best to that, and enjoy the thread we're all to serious in life crack jokes at my expense and its ok to laugh nothing is out of lines as long as it doesn't break the rules of the forum. Other then keeping track of my fitness I'm may also post some projects from metal, car crap, woodworking, and literally a bathroom remodel. I hope to push other people out their to better them selves and stop putting it off for tomorrow, like I've been doing for years, so I'm finally starting now!