Affiliate Fitness – You Don’t Have To Be Fat
As I'm sure many of you have, I've had my fair share of weight gain since high school. In fact, I gained about 25lbs and a few weeks ago at 201lbs, I was starting to get too big for my shirts. It was depressing to say the least. It was a good wake-up call as I was determined not to succumb to the shame of buying bigger sizes in clothes. Basically all I do is sit and stare at a computer all day, first at work, then at home. I mean, my eyes should be turning into little square monitors by now. So I figured something had to be done.
The first thing I did was stop driving to work. I live about two miles from the university where I'm a web developer by day, so I decided to start taking a bicycle to work. It's sweaty business but I have a little Hawaiian Breeze fan that cools me right down. The side benefit to this is that I don't waste money on car repairs, fueling up or a parking permit.
Biking to work did help the weight a bit but I could tell it was going to be a slow process. Then my wife mentioned the Master Cleanse and after some research, I started that. No, I'm not trying to sell you on this and if you decide to try it, do so at your own risk. Now I won't go into detail but let's just say -- it's cleansing in the way that Mexican food is cleansing. I won't say it wasn't difficult to avoid eating but the choice I had was much simpler to stick to: eat or don't. So I did that for eight days and was able to lose 15lbs, of which I gained back 2lbs (water weight) after two weeks and have since lost. Currently, I weigh in at roughly 186lbs.
So the other day, my brother in law showed me a website called hundredpushups.com. Essentially, It's a six week program where you work your way up to doing 100 consecutive push-ups and it's free. I figured -- I'm no stranger to push-ups; I did them a lot when I was younger, so why not? So far, I've finished day one on Monday and I'll finish up day two today. And in case you're wondering, I was only able to do twenty push-ups for the initial test but I'm determined to get to the one-hundred mark.
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August 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I commit to the gym about 3 times a week. The trick is that you MUST bring your workout clothes with you to work. Change into them a few minutes before you get out (get changed on work time) and go straight to the gym. The hardest part of the gym is just getting there.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Hey, if you have an hour a day (EVERYONE DOES and should make time) you should try P90X. I started back in March and then after 3 weeks fizzled.
This time I have my wife to help out and keep me on track because we have a set sched. on when we’re going to do it. I’m on day 3. I’m going to be making posts on progress also.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
@Geiger: All three of my coworkers go to the gym during lunch, so I know what you’re talking about. However, you’re right — it’s pretty difficult just getting out of my chair.
@browie: P90X is that crazy one, right? The one where you do like twelve different exercises.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
With two young kids, I get plenty of exercise just trying to keep them out of trouble! But that’s still not enough.
I never tried the lemonade diet, but I did try the cabbage soup diet. I don’t think I’ve ate any cabbage since that diet.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
@VMOptions: Yeah, I’m staying away from lemons and maple syrup.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:39 am
I lost 32 Lbs from quitting carbonation and caffeine. nice post.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
@BlogSavvy: Thanks. Ok, I’ll bite — what do carbonation and caffeine have to do with weight loss?
September 30th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Nice to know all tricks from you. Personally I am bit fat & it has no problem with affiliate marketing. I am doing my work easily.
Only one thing is sure that “Hard works pays”. So it matters more than fatness.