GM Enthusiast
February 13th, 2004, 08:11 PM
Hello Everyone
(everone responds in unison, Hello Dave)
It's good to find a site where like-minded individuals can meet, discuss, disagree, and everything else that goes on here.
First off, I am 28, 5'11" and a Software Engineer by trade. I hit my peak weight of 260lbs a few years ago, and have maintained that since. I always hated myself for it, but going back as long as I can remember I've always thought of myself as overweight, and just accepted it. Of course looking back at pictures, though I wasn't thin, I was most certainly not overweight - not until I became a desk jockey about 8 years ago.
Now, fast forward to modern times, I've had about enough of 260lbs overweight blah blah blah. I've wanted to do something about it for some time now, but with bad time management, lack of energy, a whole bunch of other lame excuses that were just that - lame, I couldn't do much about it. What finally pushed me over the edge is Hockey. I've been into the sport for a long time now - and occasionally would play a pickup game - not very well though because of how out of shape I was. Towards the end of '03 a friend of mine joined a local league. I went to some of the games and decided I wanted to play - I COULD play, I just had an obstacle to overcome (sounds so cliche, doesn't it?). So I started taking it seriously this past January. Admittedly, I did not know what I was doing at first. I was still trying, though. After much research (and associated loss in productivity at work as a result), I am much better prepared. I try to focus on one thing at a time, so for now I am focusing on a somewhat more healthy weight of 180lbs. From there I will reevaluate and fine-tune my weight and strength goals. As of this morning's weigh in, I am at 245lbs. I did join the league and our first game is this coming Sunday.
But wait, there's more... (I told you so). One last note - after looking into the various options available for tracking my food intake and activities, I found it sadly lacking. I found good software, and I found meciocre web sites. What I wanted was a good web-based system. Fitday.com is nice, and I have been using it, but it is so basic that I am far from impressed. Enter the fact that, as I said, I am a software engineer, and a supporter of open source software, my goal is to design and build a system, which can be used either stand-alone or integrated into some web portal software (such as this bulletin board). The language of choice is PHP. If anyone wants to lend any support, the project page is http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpfitness/.
Thanks for your time, hope to talk to some of you soon in other threads/forums.
Dave
http://www.gmenthusiast.com/
(everone responds in unison, Hello Dave)
It's good to find a site where like-minded individuals can meet, discuss, disagree, and everything else that goes on here.
First off, I am 28, 5'11" and a Software Engineer by trade. I hit my peak weight of 260lbs a few years ago, and have maintained that since. I always hated myself for it, but going back as long as I can remember I've always thought of myself as overweight, and just accepted it. Of course looking back at pictures, though I wasn't thin, I was most certainly not overweight - not until I became a desk jockey about 8 years ago.
Now, fast forward to modern times, I've had about enough of 260lbs overweight blah blah blah. I've wanted to do something about it for some time now, but with bad time management, lack of energy, a whole bunch of other lame excuses that were just that - lame, I couldn't do much about it. What finally pushed me over the edge is Hockey. I've been into the sport for a long time now - and occasionally would play a pickup game - not very well though because of how out of shape I was. Towards the end of '03 a friend of mine joined a local league. I went to some of the games and decided I wanted to play - I COULD play, I just had an obstacle to overcome (sounds so cliche, doesn't it?). So I started taking it seriously this past January. Admittedly, I did not know what I was doing at first. I was still trying, though. After much research (and associated loss in productivity at work as a result), I am much better prepared. I try to focus on one thing at a time, so for now I am focusing on a somewhat more healthy weight of 180lbs. From there I will reevaluate and fine-tune my weight and strength goals. As of this morning's weigh in, I am at 245lbs. I did join the league and our first game is this coming Sunday.
But wait, there's more... (I told you so). One last note - after looking into the various options available for tracking my food intake and activities, I found it sadly lacking. I found good software, and I found meciocre web sites. What I wanted was a good web-based system. Fitday.com is nice, and I have been using it, but it is so basic that I am far from impressed. Enter the fact that, as I said, I am a software engineer, and a supporter of open source software, my goal is to design and build a system, which can be used either stand-alone or integrated into some web portal software (such as this bulletin board). The language of choice is PHP. If anyone wants to lend any support, the project page is http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpfitness/.
Thanks for your time, hope to talk to some of you soon in other threads/forums.
Dave
http://www.gmenthusiast.com/