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I'm Robert from Southern California. I spent most of my life being the skinny guy who could eat just about anything and eat a lot. I never really spent a lot of time exercising or maintaining any sort of fitness until I joined the Army at age 22. After leaving the Army, I went back to the same old thing: drinking and eating as I pleased.

Once I hit my mid 30's things started changing. The belly

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I'm Robert from Southern California. I spent most of my life being the skinny guy who could eat just about anything and eat a lot. I never really spent a lot of time exercising or maintaining any sort of fitness until I joined the Army at age 22. After leaving the Army, I went back to the same old thing: drinking and eating as I pleased.

Once I hit my mid 30's things started changing. The belly got bigger, I finally weighed more than 150lbs, my back started to hurt and I was more and more fatigued.

I turned 39 in December and decided I needed to do something. I had severe sciatica and back pains, which were impacting my main hobby and obsession: SCUBA diving. Prior to my birthday, I injured my knee exiting the water on a beach dive while carrying some extra equipment. This kept me out of the water and the injury only added to my weight and pain. I was up to 208 to 210.

I work in the cable television industry and have to monitor TV signal in my daily work. This is when I started seeing the P90X commercials. Infomercials make me laugh, but this was totally different from any infomercial I had ever seen. The results that normal everyday people just like me: not grossly out of shape, but had kind of let themselves go over time.

I decided to bite the bullet, change my outlook and get on the P90X train. What a ride it has been! I started my first round on January 26, 2009 and finished up in early May due to some vacation and travel that interrupted the schedule.

I lost 14 pounds during the phase one and two and another 5 pounds in phase 3. I dropped 3 inches off my waist, dropped 4 inches off my belly, and gained an inch in my chest. Most of my clothes look like a sack on me now, and old clothes fit again.

I started round two of the X May 18th and am working my way through. As I write this I am in phase 3 and working my way to the end of my second 90 days.

Keep Bringing It!!!

Update: 8/26/09.

I'll be starting round 3 of the X on Monday, August 31. Looking forward to seeing what kind of results I'll get at the end of my next 90 days.

I'm pretty happy with my results so far! I went from 208lbs to 180lbs. I went from having to squeeze into my size 34 waist pants to needing to get a smaller size (fitting in 32s now!)When I started i could barely do 2 pull-ups, I can now do 20 unassisted pull-ups. While I still have about 17-18% body fat, I started with over 25%. Feels good!

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