excellentwor Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 I am 34 years old and am currently in the best shape of my life thanks to numerous life changes in the past 2 years.I've been following the nerd fitness blog for over a year now, but have never been active in the forums at all, I'm going to start on a 6 week challenge and thought I'd just start out shareing my story. at 32 years old I realized I was at the worst shape of my life. I weighed 185lbs, my doctor was telling me I needed to loose weight, I had bad colesterol, hypertension, I was constantly tired, and couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without loosing my breath. The doctor spent a good amount of time talking to me about diet and excercise, and I knew at that point I needed to change. At my doctors recomendation I started making better choices about what foods I ate, and was doing 30 minutes of activity daily. I was starting to feel better but was still having issues of falling asslep at work, not being able to watch a tv or movie without falling asleep. I had a sleep study done and was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea. When I got the resuts back my doctor told me that this was the worst case of it he had seen (AHI over 100). The beginning of 2011 was a new beginning for me, I got my BiPAP machine and actually was getting good sleep at night. in 2011 I had energy to start being more active. I had a elliptical at my house and started doing that every day for half an hour. That summer I started following the nerd fitness blogs and after reading http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/01/30/a-beginners-guide-to-biking/ thought I would like to get into bikeing and I purchased a 1966 schwinn racer off a classified ad. I started bikeing nearly every day that summer, and then in the fall also started lifting and over the corse of 2011 I had lost 60lbs. In 2012 I purchased 2 new bikes, did a bike-thon-ride first long ride (62 miles) Did another one (25 miles) started doing fitness classes, continued lifting, and started running outside. I had lost another 20lbs over 2012. My goal was to be down to 200lbs by the end of 2012 and I just have 5 more lbs to go to get there now. This is going to be one of my goals for the 6 week challange starting on monday. I am greatful for all of the great information and encouragment I have been getting from the blogs and look foward to spending more time in the forums this year --excellentworth-- level 2 Human. Adventurer at heart, training with the RangersPs. 24:3,4STR 4|DEX 3|STA 5|CON 6|WIS 5|CHA 5 Link to comment
Laureleye Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Wow, you really took control. Are you going to join the challenge getting ready to start up? The hardest part of the workout is lacing up your shoes'"10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Current Challenge |INTJ | MFP | FitBit Link to comment
excellentwor Posted January 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Yeah I'm going to post my goals tomorrow. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD --excellentworth-- level 2 Human. Adventurer at heart, training with the RangersPs. 24:3,4STR 4|DEX 3|STA 5|CON 6|WIS 5|CHA 5 Link to comment
JessOfAllTrades Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 What an awesome life transformation! You're an inspiration excellentwork. Welcome to the community and good luck on your first challenge! Storytelling Rebel | Blog | Twitter "“You've seen my descent, now watch my rising." ~ Rumi Link to comment
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