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In 2005 my family took a vacation to Florida. My wife took several photos of me on the beach. When we arrived home and viewed the photos I knew at that point that I needed to do something about my weight. I weighed 250 pounds at that time and would struggle to breathe when I bent down and tied my shoes. I know I needed to exercise and change my way of eating but I loved to eat. My exercise program at that time was coaching a competitive baseball team and I agreed to cut out snacks and sodas. That was all that I was willing to commit to. I dropped my weight from 250 pounds down to 229 pounds in two years but I was still over weight and out of shape. In 2007 my wife ordered the P90X program. My wife had been on the P90X program for about a week and I asked her how the program was going. She told me it was a very extreme but a great workout and I asked if she thought I could do the P90X program. She flat out told me that I might have a heart attack and I needed to be careful doing the exercises. I decided that I would do the P90X program just to prove to her that I could do it. I haven’t done any kind of structured exercise program since playing sports in high school. I thought about quitting after the first week but after I got on the scales and saw that I had lost 6 pounds. I knew I wanted to continue with this program. During that first week I started my new eating program, which is all about eating clean, and portion control. Changing my eating was very tough for the first couple of weeks. Before I very seldom ate breakfast and if I did it was a fast food sandwich. Lunch was always something from a fast food restaurant and Dinner would be all I could eat at home. I was eating about 3500 calories of bad food in a day. Now I eat breakfast every morning, I have a fruit snack in the mid-morning, I take my lunch to work and I have a mid-afternoon protein bar. I have dinner with my family at night. Now I eat about 1900 calories a day of good clean food and feel like I am eating more now than before. I wakeup every workday at 4:00 AM and get do my workout. Weekend days I start later as my wife and I do our workout together. I have completed several rounds of the P90X, P90X Plus, One on One and started the Chalean Extreme program the first of the year. I now weigh 179 pounds and my body fat dropped from 30% down to 14%. I dropped 9 inches in my waist and I wear size 34 pants. Last time I wore 34 pants I was in the 9th grade. My shirts went from size XXL down to a Large.
I am 49 years old and I am able to do more push-ups and pull-ups now than I could do when I played sports in high school. The Beachbody programs has changed my life in so many ways. My health is some much better, seems like I always had a cold or sinus problem in the winter but not this year. I have so much more energy now and can do things that I couldn’t do in the past. I will walk by our pull-up stand and think to myself how about doing a few pull-ups. I will do 15 or 20. Sometimes I will grab the dumbbells and do 4 or 5 sets of curls. Never would have done this a year ago. The Beachbody programs is not just an exercise program but also a life style change for me. I plan on never going back to my old self.