Day 55

Today I did my leg workout with my brother at our old highschool, its great to have some one to workout with it makes my workouts go much better. We killed each others abs, each of us came up with a couple creative ab workouts a couple of them include medicine balls. It really made it more fun than work but I will definately be sore tomorrow. We came home and ate breakfast then went back out to the barn and worked on tearing more of it down. I would say we have 3/4 of the outside boards off now its pretty much just a skeleton. After spending most of my time at a desk for the last 5 years it's nice to come home and put in a good hard days work or two every once in awhile.

My brother watched body of work with me and it sounds like eventually he will make the switch over to BFL. Right now he is doing a diet that was created by a guy in Omaha (Tony Dean). He was on Good Morning America the end of last year and they were challenged to have 100 Omahan's loose 2500lbs this year and then they will do a follow up story. So he has made a commitment to do this diet. The diet pretty much consists of eating what every you want as long as your under X ammount of calories, and doing cardio 3 times a week. I saw some of the before and after pictures on their website and they are impressive some people have lost a lot of weight doing their program, but thats just it they lost weight and all end up really skinny with no muscle tone. I think his goal is to get his weight down and then build himself from there.

Day 54

Weight- 304

Today was cold but good. I hit the gravel this morning since I am back on the farm. It was "nice" last weekend when I ran outside but today was very cold I persevered which is good. I spent most of my day working on tearing down an old horse barn that we no longer use. We made pretty good progress but have alot of work to do tomorrow. I went in to my Grandma and Grandpa's house today for lunch she made some baked fish and a salad separate for me which was nice. I had to have half of one of her cornbread muffins though, carbs, ha ha ha. I watched Just watched body of work this evening and it really has me re-energised! I am almost done with the second 4 weeks of this challenge and staring down the home stretch. I need to really regain focus and make every day count, and I will!

Day 53

Weight 307lbs


I went to the gym in the morning and had a good arm workout. I went to work and ate pretty well. After work I came back home to my parents house. I was hungry when I came home but didn't feel like eating a meal, I searched the fridge, and grabbed an orange, there was all sorts of stuff I could have grabbed that I don't keep around my apt. but I grabbed the orange with out thinking about it. That is great, eating has become second nature for me. That is the good news. Bad news is after watching Body for life success stories DVD I realized I have been just going through the motions. My journaling is completely out of whack, I keep telling myself I don't have time, when the truth is I do have time I just choose to do other things like watch TV or whatever. So this weekend I am really reflecting on my issues and what I can do to improve them for my final 4 weeks of the challenge

Day 52

I wasn't feeling all that well so I didn't go into work but I did push myself through cardio. The plan was I was going to do cardio in the morning before work, and and my arm work out that night. That evening I was pretty drained and knew if I did my arm workout I wouldn't get much out of it so I decided to push it over to Thursday and push all my workouts back one day meaning I will do my last workout on Sunday.

Day 51

Sorry I have been lacking on posts but the last couple weeks being out of town has put me out of sync, but I have been posting on bflnebraska.com so I will transfer all of them over starting with Day 51.

Tuesday kind of set my whole week out of wack. I guess it wasn't the day more like my lack of planning. I knew I had that Baseball game to go to and I though I would just go do cardio after I got home from the game. WRONG! I missed my first workout but I make up for it this week. I am pretty disappointed I let myself talk myself into a "deal." So the rest of the week I am going to have to make up for that missed workout.

Day 50

Weight-310lbs

Today went pretty well I ate well and had a great workout! I am very excited about what this week will bring. My scale weight hasn't changed much lately but I am definately seeing changes in my body fat levels so I am happy. I can't wait to take pictures this weekend and see how far I have come so far. Tomorrow will be another challenge because after work I will be going to the Creighton vs. Nebraska baseball game. I guess this will be the first time I tailgate with Myoplex instead of Bud Light! :)

Day 46,47,48,49

Weight-305lbs (day 48)

Day 46

This will probably be my longest post yet because it includes 4 days. Day 46 I went to the gym early in the morning and had a good workout on the Incline treadmill. Then I went home packed to go back home to Iowa for the weekend. I ate well that day no mishaps. On my lunch at work I had an hour so I went to Borders and picked up Eating for Life. Great book a lot of great recipes, I was a little disappointed with some of the recipes though, I already know how to make a turkey sandwich! I got to my parents around 11 ate my final meal and watched some TV then headed to bed.

Day 47

I woke up and went back to the weight room I spent many an early morning lifting while in high school. I had to modify my workout a little because they don't have all the equipment I needed but still had a really good workout it was really fun to be back in that room "pumping iron" I really wish I had the extra money to buy them some new equipment the weight room is starting to get a little dilapidated. I had a good day eating I tried two of the EFL recipes. The egg casserole which I think I will start making on a weekly basis because I can make one pan that will last me almost the whole week. I also made the barbecue chicken pita pizza, it was so good I felt like I was cheating! After my workout the rest of my day was all about hurry up and wait. The seed corn dealer was supposed to deliver some seed at 9:30 by 11 I was done waiting. So my Grandpa and I headed to a neighboring town where our grain cart was being worked on and took it from the welding shop (my fault) to the implement dealer to get turn signals put on it. The rest of the day was pretty laid back just kind of hung out.

Day 48

Saturday was my parents birthday, I started the day off with a run on the gravel roads, it was pretty sloppy but nice to go on my first run outside, in a long time and when I say long time I mean looonnngg time. I almost made it up the first hill and had to start walking up the rest of the say made it to the point where I was going to turn around and walked a little more up the hill then ran the rest of the say going back down the first hill was pretty easy so I sprinted the rest of the way to the end of our lane. I relaxed some more that day and then in the afternoon I went out to the shed and changed my oil and vacuumed out the car. Then we went to church when we got back home my grandparents were already there to celebrate my parents birthday. They were both born on the 10th my Dad is 7 hours older then my Mom. Most of the day I ate really well and I ate pretty well for during their birthday dinner but decided to have some cake and ice cream so Saturday was officially my free day. My brother, his wife, and I bought them a hammock, something my Mom has always talked about getting. I am going to have to loose another 40lbs or so to use it though weight limit is 264lbs according to the manual. I guess one more reason to loose some weight!

Day 49

I woke up this morning and packed to head back to Omaha for work at 10 am. I made it early and ate really well today, to make up for the cake on Saturday, oh and the cheese and crackers before dinner I forgot about those. It felt good to eat well today. After work I went to a buddies house to play poker I got second but blew most of my stack away to the guy who one it on one hand. Oh well, at least I got my money back. It was fun I haven't had the time to play as much as I would like, I used to play once a week. Well I thought about pulling an April Fools Joke today and posting that I had decided to quit that but April Fools day is almost over so it's a little too late to do that. I am really looking forward to week at this 4 weeks have gone by so fast it is unreal! I really think week 8 will be a very good week for me I am predicting 299lbs by Saturday!