Back on track

I had originally started this blog as a way to keep myself honest when trying to lose weight, but it didn't exactly work that way. I ended up sort of abandoning it, not updating it, thinking that nobody really cared.

In the meantime, my weight is up over 300 lbs (again), and it scared me. I thought that it was time to get serious and actually do something about it. We had one of the gym chains sell off a bunch of their outlets to another chain, in order to "focus on our priorities", which is corp-speak for "we're losing money, so we're getting rid of the units that aren't making as much money as we'd like." So the Smoking Hot Redhead and I went to see what they had to offer, and to see if we could get a deal. We went to the local gym, and it felt like I was walking into the exercise yard at the local prison, and I was the new guy on the block. I hadn't seen so many gang tats and prison tats since, well, EVER. I was getting eyefucked from the moment we walked in until the moment we left. The staff was just stupid, and the gym smelled like they had it hermetically sealed to keep in the stank. (You know what I mean about stank, right?)

The next day, we went to the gym that was closest to SRH's old place. I had worked out there before, when it was the company that was bought out by the chain that just dumped it. It was the same equipment in the same location, just updated a little, but everyone was more friendly, more knowledgeable, and it didn't stank.  They still couldn't offer us a deal, so we did a quick bit of pencil to paper, and went over to the gym where SRH had her membership on hold.

We talked to one of the people there about what it would cost to reactivate the membership and add me on. They cut the normal add fees and monthly stroke in half, down to what it would be for a normal "couple's" membership. That was a month ago.

SRH and I have been carpooling to work 3 days a week, so it makes it that much easier for the two of us to go to the gym after work. I've been doing 2-3 days a week of cardio, and I'm starting to add 1 day of strength training on the machines. My plan is to increase my strength, endurance, and aerobic fitness. I want to be able to tote the >100# of gear from an LZ to the crest of the hill at ~10000 feet without wanting to drop dead. I want to be able to do the same hike as the Hotshot Crews. I know it's going to take a while, but I'm in this for the long haul.

Now, if I could stop eating so much crap.