Recieved P90X Videos!

My sister Reychl (check out her blog here: http://titzandtaaats.blogspot.com) had the idea that I should blog about my P90X experience. So, here I go.

Kristi, my lovely fiancee, always listens to the saddness pouring out of my mouth every time I describe: how my clothes fit, how I feel that day, my dilemma for wanting to eat cake, not wanting to eat in public, etc. She also hears some positive things in there, too, such as: I want to do something about it ... blah blah blah ... P90X ... blah blah blah.

To my surprise, she bid on a P90X post on Ebay, AND WON!! WOOHOO!! After paying for it, we wait and wait for this item to arrive. Then the email from Ebay arrives letting us know the $40 video set we just ordered was a scam. GOSH DARN IT! So, she bid on another video set, this time spending $70. She won that one too. Today, we get the $40 video set in the mail from China! It wasn't a scam afterall, so take that Ebay. Now, we just have to do something with the $70 set! :o) If that one ever arrives ...

So, a little about myself, if you don't know me. I would say I have been overweight my entire life. There were always times I actually tried to DO something about it. Like when I was 12, for an entire summer at noon, I popped in my Mom's exercise videos and invited a friend over to do them with me. When I went to university, I took a weight lifting class, found a gym buddy (thanks Kevin!) and biked to and from school. Oh, and changed my diet - the Atkins Diet. I would have to say I was probably at my smallest then, and feeling good. I then graduated from school, took 8 months to find my first job, then moved 1,030 miles south for the next 4 years. I slowly gained my weight back because I was now supporting myself and couldn't afford to sustain my all meat diet. Kristi and I found each other and maybe a year later joined a gym. We were doing so well, until I decided I wanted to go to graduate school. As soon as I picked Lincoln, NE, a whopping 1,340 miles away, we stopped going to the gym.

This pretty much brings us to the present. I have lived here a year, and I have settled into a routine of going to school, researching, eating, staying up late, eating some more to stay awake, etc.

The other day I weighed myself. It was not shocking, but relieving, but still, it's the heaviest I have ever been. I am not sure I am comfortable posting the weight now. I am not even sure I am comfortable posting the pictures this programme makes you take now. I am so embarassed to show the world myself ... but it COULD be the motivation I need to really bring it for those videos. I can't start them yet because we need to buy resistance bands (this house is too small to harbour weight sets).

So, when it is finally time for Day 1 - I promise, I will post my information. This would be good for me too - because I would probably make elaborate Excel spreadsheets and not update them.

So, here is to getting a Beach body for Christmas ... I suppose the winter will just be motivation to stay skinny so I can ACTUALLY get my chance to wear a bikini. Or even something pretty from the ladies department.

P.S. I will start posting pictures, because as I write this I am realizing the importance of them when blogging about a journey. If you have nay questions about my journal, always feel like you can ask me. Just please, no negativity, I hear enough of it from myself.