For those of you seeking information of a nautical nature, I am sorry to disappoint. This is actually a blog to chronicle a 5-month weight loss competition between myself, Amber Peel (Hi! Nice to meet you!) and my workmate Daniel Butler (he’ll introduce himself shortly). The goal is to lose the most weight between 04SEP11 and midnight the night of our birthday’s, mine – 03FEB and his – 30JAN. However, the winner must lose a minimum of 20 pounds (9 kilograms).
In the spirit of introduction posts, I suppose I should give a little background on myself. I’m a 31-year-old American expat going on a little over four years now (the living overseas part, not being 31!). Since my early twenties, I’ve been trying to get into the routine of staying fit and living healthy. However, I seem to always manage to fall off the wagon, end up right back into my old habits, and gain back all the weight I had worked so hard to lose.
In fairness to me, my old habits weren’t exactly horrible. But didn’t necessarily prevent the pounds from creeping on over the years either. I’ve never been an athletic person so the “working out” wasn’t very appealing to me. And I’m from the American South and have a weakness for Tex-Mex, cornbread, and Southern fried anything! (And Italian food, Indian food, Chinese food, Thai food, hazelnut gelato… you get the point.)
However, since moving “Down Under” a little over a year ago to the lovely town of Bunbury, WA, I seem to have fallen hard for the “fit” life. The fantastic weather, beautiful scenery, and plethora of activities that are available made the change quite easy. Since October 2010, I’ve managed to drop from 170 pounds to 150 pounds. At 5’5”, my first goal was to simply get out of overweight range. So… yay me!
Now I’m ready to take that next step and completely transform from being “normal” to “fit”. Based on my height, bone structure, and age, I’ve set my target at 130 pounds. Obviously, losing the next 20 pounds will require a much different approach to losing the first. Contrary to what Daniel thinks, he has a much bigger advantage over me because of this. But I am relying on my extreme discipline and meticulous planning to give me a bit of an edge. I’ll provide the details of my plan of attack in the next post.
Until then, I hope you enjoy our silly little way of entertaining ourselves (What can we say? We’re Aquarians!) and feel free to ask any questions along the way. Oh yeah, we haven’t exactly figured out what the wager should be. Personally, I’m just looking forward to saying, “Hey Daniel, I beat you!” But a bet isn’t a bet without a prize. So suggestions?
Good Luck!
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