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I'm a 37 year old husband of 14 years, and father of 2 boys ages 5 and 9. Out of college I was an elementary teacher and coach for 9 years. Then 4 1/2 years ago I left teaching to get my insurance licenses and have been an insurance agent ever since.
As a kid I had an extremely high metabolism and could eat mountains of food and not gain a pound. In high school I was an all state

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I'm a 37 year old husband of 14 years, and father of 2 boys ages 5 and 9. Out of college I was an elementary teacher and coach for 9 years. Then 4 1/2 years ago I left teaching to get my insurance licenses and have been an insurance agent ever since.
As a kid I had an extremely high metabolism and could eat mountains of food and not gain a pound. In high school I was an all state football/basketball/track athlete. I was always tall for my age and by 7th grade was 6' 5" and weighed probably 150 lbs. I never got any taller but by my senior year in high school was a very fit 220 lbs and under 10% body fat.
Off I went to play college football and really started to pack on the pounds, 30 in the first 3 months. No steroids involved here, just pizzas and footlong hot dogs! I hovered around 245-260 pounds throughout 5 years of college. When I started teaching and coaching I was still fairly active. I operated a concrete business during the summers. Anyone who has ever poured any concret knows that will burn the calories in a hurry!
Then I left teaching and got my desk job. Boy the pounds really started adding up in a hurry. Before I knew it I had ballooned to a whopping 310 pounds. Now I can hardly play 5 minutes of ball tag with my kids. Because I have virtually no cartilage left in my knees, any pounding activity leaves me swollen and sore for 2 weeks. Needless to say, I am ready to change my life.
Today is Sunday, February 15, 2009. I will 'Push Play' for the first time tomorrow morning with my new Power 90 videos that came in the mail yesterday. My wife and I went grocery shopping today. I sense she is skeptical that I'll keep on going with this once I get a little ways into it. I've had a habit of falling off of many diets and exercise programs in the past. But I truly think Tony's program is different. I'm going to do my darndest to stay with it and make the most of it.

I fell off the program after I finished my first round of Power90 back in Mid May. I have maintained my weight, but not the fitness level I was at. So yesterday, August 3, my wife and I both started pushing play again. She is doing 10 Min Trainer. I'm starting back with a couple of weeks of Power 1-2 to work back into it. I re-read my bio and realized that I did what I always do. I started out very devoted to working out, but eventually stopped. My diet went bad again. Back to my old sloppy ways. So, it's time rededicate myself to a better me. I'm down from 310 to 283 pounds. My goal is to be down to 230 by next summer. I know there's plenty of time to accomplish that. Here we go again!

Well, my friends. That was back in 2009. It is now February 21, 2011. My 39th birthday. Time to start all over again. I now weigh a flabby 308 lbs. I'm terribly out of shape. I made another promise to my boys, now 11 and 7, that by my next birtday I will be able to go snow skiing with them. Time to dust off the Power 90 videos and push play. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

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