Well I have posted here before but never in this aspect. I have decided to share my journey to reduce my body fat and get back in shape both physically and mentally. Over the past few month's (despite my somewhat success in weight loss I've went from 220-200ish lbs and lost about 4 percent body fat) I have seen a definite turn for worse in my life. Starting with my wife leaving me while I was underway (I'm in the navy) and then further evolving into a drinking frenzy when I got divorce papers sent to me on Thanksgiving week. For the past two months besides for workouts I have been just sitting around completly wasted mentally.

Anyways, back to the point of this journal which is my life change plan. Well I've done tons of research and I finally have a good idea on how I am going to start my plan tommorow. First off I went and bought a camera so that I could record my pictures everyday for progress and pending a scanner I'll start putting them up here. I have multiple goals for life and this goal is a big part of my other goals.
My goals so far as they stand are.

Weight:

Short term:
Janurary 27th- Weight 195 lbs
Feburary 27th-Weight 191 lbs

Medium Term
March 27th- Weight 187 lbs
April 27th- Weight 183 lbs

Long term
May 27th- Weight 180 lbs
June 27th- Weight 180 lbs

Physical Goals
As it stands right now I run 4-6 miles a day and I swim for about 30 mins. I can do about 16-18 pullups and 80 pushups in 2 mins and 80 situps in 2 mins.

Short term: Within next 3 months
Run a 10k
Do a sprint Triathalon
20 Pullups
90 Pushups in 2 mins
100 situps in 2 mins

Medium term: Within 5-6 months
Run a half marathon
Do a full triathalon
25 pullups
100 Pushups in 2 mins
110 Situps in 2 mins

Long term:Within a year
Run a marathon
Do a half Ironman Triathalon
30 Pullups
120 Pushups in 2 mins
120 Situps in 2 mins

Personal Goals
Finish my associates degree(I go to night school and have 30 credits left)
Get in shape and go back to the special programs community.

Yea I know this is long But it feels good to get it off my chest and since my wife left me I have really noone else to talk to so...

Well heres my stats.
5'9
200 lbs
BF=14.7 according to the bodycomp.com however I feel like I'm more at 16-17%.
LBM:171 lbs
FM:29 lbs

Goal Weight: 180 lbs
Goal BF: Sub 10%

Well I am going to have my last bad meal I quit beer last night and tonite its steak and a peppermint patty then starting clean tommorow. Wish me luck its hard as heck to eat right on the boat but I'm gonna do it.

-Phil

My plan for pt will be this
A workout I got off the internet that is directly related to my fitness goals.

My first set of pictures for Saturday 26th lol crappy quality but when ur in the navy you can't afford the 900 mega pixel supercameras :)

Phil,
I think you could teach me about writing out goals...that is pretty awesome. If you get the clean eating thing figured out, let me know. That is the most difficult part for me...I guess it is the discipline that it takes. The workout isn't difficult for me, it's those urges to stick things in my mouth that will keep me from ever seeing my ab muscles. But I'll keep after it just like you. :gl:
Dev

Well Tommorows workout is going to be

10 sets of
20 jumping jacks
20 Squats
5-7 pullups

500 yd timed swim (sid Stroke)

500 yd swim 25 fs/25 side stroke

1.5 mile timed run

Well my workout ended up being completly different then what I had planned.I ended up doing.

2 Mile run- 14:37 on the treadmill at 2% grade at 8.3 MPH
900 M side stroke swim- 20:00 mins
and in as few sets as possible

100 Pushups- 40/30/20/10
150 Situps- 150
35 Pullups- 14//8/6/5

That's pretty much my workout for the day.

To conserve bandwith and space I will be posting a link to my fitday.com account for a listing of my diet.


http://fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=eodman12

-Phil

Well I started the TWTB workout today and I did alright for having eaten so much crap this weekend.

450M swim-10:05
2 Min push-60
2 Min situp-60
Max pullups-14
1.5 mi run in boots and pants-11:20

-Phil

Well todays workout was
200M warmup
500m sidestroke
3x100M sprints
200M cooldown.

I love swiming but I'm looking foward to tommorows 3 mile run. So far the diet's on track I threw away most of the crap from New Years. It's looking like I'll be making my goals on Janurary after all.

-Phil

Today was a 3 mile run (1.5 mile sprint=11:42/1.5 mile jog 12:56)
I attribute the slow times to the fact that their was a 8% grade hill in the middle of my run but who knows.
-Phil