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I am a fatso. Here's how I got that way.

I've always been athletic in an athletic family. Growing up our activities included: football, basketball, swimming, kickboxing, long distance running, biking, tennis, golf, heavy duty yardwork, mowing acres of grass etc etc. The funny thing is this is not my nature. I am lazy by nature but most of these activities were fun so it was not a problem.

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I am a fatso. Here's how I got that way.

I've always been athletic in an athletic family. Growing up our activities included: football, basketball, swimming, kickboxing, long distance running, biking, tennis, golf, heavy duty yardwork, mowing acres of grass etc etc. The funny thing is this is not my nature. I am lazy by nature but most of these activities were fun so it was not a problem. The other thing to know is this is Louisiana, eating is our culture. As a kid I could easily eat the same amount as 2 grown men and I took pride in that. I started putting on weight around 10-13 years old but I thought it was cool. I confused getting overweight with growing up. My Dad decided to do something about this and started me running 5 miles a day. Needless to say it didn't take long for me to shape up. At my fittest (17-18 yrs old) I weighed 190 and could run or do any other activity as long as I wanted without tiring. I actually sprinted an entire mile once. The measurements were inacurate but I finished it around 5.5 minutes.

Then I graduated, started my career in IT and changed everything. Like I said, I'm lazy. I hated all that running. I'm also a big BIG gamer so sitting on my butt playing a video game for 8 hours was not uncommon but I was in such great shape at the time I didn't think twice about it. Everyone warned me not to slack off but I didn't listen. With all this money in my pocket I started eating out a lot. Me and my friends actually ate a Chinese buffet every day of 1 week and our challenge was to try and eat 4 plates. That was tough but I did it once. I could actually out eat my friend who was a 300 pound Somoan guy. Like I said, food is a big deal in Louisiana.

My weight during this period went from 190 to 235 in about 5 months. This would've been around 1997-98. It has taken a long time for me to undo all of that fitness I had when I was younger. I could still play basketball, swim and do all of these usual activities but all I was really doing was maintaining that 230-235 weight. I don't eat breakfast and sometimes not lunch which means I eat a lot at dinner. I sit most of the day for my job then go home and sit some more playing video games. I'm so tired most of the time that I haven't got the energy to really get at exercise so I run a little and pretend it's doing me some good. I have a huge yard (6.5 acres) to tend to so I need the energy badly.

I will officially start P90X 9/27/2009 but I tried a little last night 9/24. Holy crap I thought I was going to die. This stuff is tough but I dig it. The funniest thing for me about P90X is the pull ups. All of that long distance running I did when I was younger basically emaciated my upper body but gave me powerful legs, this is a normal reaction. My puny arms can't even do one pull up trying to get my heavy lower body off the ground. If I have no other goal it's to get an actual upper body and be able to do a few pull ups. I think that's doable.

So I'm a fatso, time to do somethig about it.

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