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August Camping trip, get a mohawk every year :)
Ultimatly I'd like a tighter stomach but then again who doesn't. The things we do...
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Up until about 2 years ago I never really thought about my personal health. I lived a very sedentary lifestyle and had a lot of bad habits. Between smoking, eating terrible, and being a couch potato, I felt like I owed it to my body to make a change.
I started out biking, as it was something I always enjoyed and really wanted to work primarily on cardio. I quickly saw improvements, but after time also started noticing I was losing a lot of weight. (a lot, for me, being 15 pounds) ...
Up until about 2 years ago I never really thought about my personal health. I lived a very sedentary lifestyle and had a lot of bad habits. Between smoking, eating terrible, and being a couch potato, I felt like I owed it to my body to make a change.
I started out biking, as it was something I always enjoyed and really wanted to work primarily on cardio. I quickly saw improvements, but after time also started noticing I was losing a lot of weight. (a lot, for me, being 15 pounds)
I have always been a lightweight, regardless of how terrible I ate I never have tipped over the 145-ish area on the scale (5'10"). I'm still hovering around the 130 pound area, and ideally my goal would be to gain that weight back but as muscle.
Tired of being self-conscious about being scrawny. I'm trying to put on some mass but finding it to be very difficult regardless of how hard I work or what my diet consists of.
While I don't feel like I look sickly (though I do hate that I can see my ribs.... ugg) I hate getting comments on a *daily basis* about how I should "eat a sandwich" or hearing comments about how it wouldn't "kill me to eat that X, Y, Z; I could use a few extra pounds" --- Yea, Thanks. I know. It's not as if I'm bulimic, I shouldn't have to apologize for not being the typical Wisconsinite... in other area's of the world I feel like I'd be a completely normal weight. And how rude... do people walk up to those who are overweight and tell them to stop eating?!?!? Skinny people can be self-conscious too ya know....
That said, I do maintain a pretty healthy diet. I'm not any strict food-nazi. Not vegetarian or vegan, I eat what I like but the majority of my meals consist of lots of fruits and veggies, beans, nuts, whole grains, etc. Lean meats, foods high in proteins and fibers and low in unnatural fats and preservatives.
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Member Since: 6/3/2012
My Goals:
-Improve lung capacity and help overcome my asthma, particularly during allergy season and humid Wisconsin weather.
-Gain a healthy amount of weight
My Program:
-Daily walks / Jogs
-Bike rides
-Swimming when possible :)
-P90X
Personal Information:
From South Eastern WI, I work in the healthcare field.
Other Information:
A few things that continue to effect my health and exercise routines:
-Resumed smoking, but trying to quit. UPDATE: I quit smoking 7-15-2012 :)
-Lactose intolerance, I'm able to eat cheese but most other dairy is out of the question and have trouble digesting whey protein on empty stomachs.
-Asthma, exercise induced, normal does not give me too much grief unless I'm really pushing it or its a particularly humid day.
-Genetics, screw you genes!! Though I suppose I could have it worse ;)
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