The Start Line

This will hopefully be my final start to one of my many failed attempts to actually accomplish a difficult task for a certain period of time in my life. There are two types of people in this world when it comes to getting something done; you have the 'doers' and then you have the 'lazy-non doers.' I, unfortunately, fall into the latter category. Without getting into too much detail about all of my failed attempts of incorporating worthwhile daily activities into my life, suffice it to say that I just can't seem to stick to a program for more than a couple of weeks. I have a hard time staying motivated. Whether that be because I'm lazy, dissatisfied with an apparent lack of results, or because of a hectic lifestyle leaving little free time for ME, it all comes back to root of the problem, I just don't like being uncomfortable. Perhaps to stay completely motivated for an extended period of time, I need to hit that proverbial 'rock bottom'. I've always dealt with challenges in my life with a les se fair attitude, I see a problem or a challenge, and I don't stress out about it, I just work on it until it's done and that's it. If I get some bumps and bruises along the way, I'm fine with that, as long as I can maintain my way of life of "comfortability."

So this blog/journal is going to be 'my space' for the daily tracking of my P90X results. It won't be easy, I'll probably be uncomfortable, I'll want to quit some 90 different times, but I'm hopeful that this blog will give me some incentive and be a source of motivation for me to follow through with my workout goals. I'd like to see if I can actually follow through with the 90 day challenge. In the past I've started different workout plans, different diets, joined several gyms, even turned 1/2 of my garage into a at-home gym, and much more, but to only see myself give in to the temptations of the flesh (food, TV watching on the couch, restaurant eating, etc.) and instead decide to quit.

I have recently lost 20 pounds because several couples in our stake took part in a "Do Hard Things" challenge. That really was the first time in my life that I followed through with any sort of diet and saw real results. I started the competition on January 12 and it ended on March 27. So i lost about 2 pounds a week, but my workouts left a lot to be desired. I only ended up losing 3 percent of my body fat during those 11 weeks, but did manage to lose a total of 13 inches in different areas of my body. So while I did manage to lose weight and get skinnier, I didn't lose as much fat as I would have hoped. I pretty much curbed my eating and increased my cardio and got pretty decent results, but I am in no way the physical specimen/machine that I want to be. So here's where P90X comes in. I'm going to take before pictures, during pictures, and after pictures. I'm going to blog daily, or almost daily to to track my thought process and see what happens at the end of 90 days. This should be fun.