About me

So who am I? As I said in my last post, I'm not any expert on fitness or anything, I'm just an average guy working toward a healthier lifestyle. People that see me think I'm healthy but I don't completely feel or am heathy or in shape. When I was a kid, I was always in shape. I played soccer, was always outside running around, riding bikes, doing things that boys did. As I got into high school, I played more soccer, I became a soccer referee, I picked up snowboarding, and began to play indoor soccer during summer and winter. I was always in shape and could eat whatever I wanted.

My weight/health struggles began when I went to college. Everyone says they gain 15 pounds their freshman year but me, I gained 35 pounds. Went from being 140 to 175 in just one semester. I was working out but less. I wasn't playing soccer regularly, I was still eating whatever I wanted and I began to lift a lot of weights. Lifting weights was not bad, I got really strong but my diet was detrimental to my body. I went home for the holidays and didn't work out at all but still ate poorly. Came back to college and still didn't work out. All that muscle turned to fat real quick. Before I knew it, I was weighing close to 180 pounds. I struggled with that for 3 years and never really understood why. I began to eat a little better didn't find a a good diet or routine. 

My senior year of college, a buddy of mine saw me struggling and suggested I followed his workout and meal plan. I did and I lost weight! I was excited. I felt better, felt more active, was able to do more, I was happier, more confident, things were going well. I went down from 190 to 168 in 3 months. I was eating better and working out. When I started second semester, I realized that my friend's workout plan was only focusing on strength mainly in the upper body. I approached him about doing more cardio and balance the weights more through the body. He didn't really have workouts for that so I began to explore other options. I did ok that last semester but when I graduated, I was back to gaining weight and not working out.

I got a job as a commercial pilot flying tours over the Grand Canyon. I tried to keep my good diet to help me keep my weight low but it was hard to workout with long days of flying every day. I was very tired every time I got home so I chose sleep over exercise. 6 months later, I started a new job as an Airline Pilot flying a small jet around the United States. If I thought coming up with a routine while I was flying at the canyon was hard, this new lifestyle was going to be hell. I love my job but it's really hard to stay healthy. I got up to 198 lbs, ate a lot of fast food at the airport between flights, and had weird sleep habits die to my ever changing schedule. This life was not good for me. I was fat, unhappy, not confident, and confused because no matter how much tried to work out, I couldn't loose a pound. I always thought, I want to be in shape and healthy again like I was in high school but I knew that I was not going to be able to workout as much as I did with the lifestyle I live. That's when I began to talk to my co-workers that were healthy to ask and see what they did. There was one question that I was dying to find the answer to. What does it means to be fit? For that answer, I'll have to tell another story....