Doing something different

[SuperSweed]

Greetings fellow travellers!

My name’s Jarrod, a 25 year old candy maker,  and I’ve been at this game for awhile now. We all know what game I’m talking about. The one where I say tomorrow will be the start of the rest of my life. Tomorrow I am going to go to the gym and destroy that fat clinging on to me like a remora suckling the tit of a mighty shark.

It’s been a battle, not just against the weight. The constant fight against my own crippling body image issues and low self esteem.

I’ve always been a big guy, not the biggest, but a big guy nonetheless. As of Monday I stand at 6’ and 292 pounds the biggest I ever want to be. I’ve tried the whole gym thing loads of times before. Sometimes I was even good at it but the end result is always the same. I always come up with an excuse to quit. This last time I cracked a tooth clenching my jaw while lifting weights, I didn’t need to take off two months but it happened anyways. Which of course meant that I lost all the progress that I had painstakingly gained.

Honestly I never thought of joining a fitness website before. The idea of making my shortcomings public has never really appealed to me, but I am not a young man anymore. I have been battling a weight problem the same way since I was little kid. The way I’ve been doing it obviously hasn’t been working so it is time for a new approach. Not only am I putting myself out there on the wild frontier we call the internet, but  I’ve decided to join a boxing gym as well.

I plan on posting here often enough to annoy the lot of you. Iif you kind folks don’t pay attention to my ramblings I might be able to read some of these and get me out of this decade long slump.

These are my goals:

Lose weight

Become the strongest there is

(Yup that’s it)

My nerd creds:

Classic comic book nerd.

I love going to comic con and cosplaying with the all the other die hards.

I love reading and writing fiction.

and who doesn’t enjoy a good rpg now and again.

 

[sylph]

Welcome and I'm glad you decided to join.

 

Perhaps if you view this as a place to get support to reach your goals other than a broadcasting of your shortcomings, that might work a bit better for you? Unless you're the type that needs a butt kicking once in awhile. Folks here are pretty good at both...

[SuperSweed]

I am definitely a guy that needs a good butt kicking. I tend to get too full of myself and a tad egotistical at times so being reminded that I'm not perfect will probably help more than hurt.

[sylph]

Fair enough! Poke around and get familiar with the boards. It really is a great community here.

 

The next challenge starts after the New Year (I think) but you can jump in on other threads before that, offering support to other nerds, chiming in on whatever conversation appeals at the moment or even start a Battle Log, if that's your cup of tea.

[SuperSweed]

I will have to pop around the forums a bit and rub elbows with my fellow nerds.