My 90 Day Challenge (not going to be the fat dad)

[JamDot]

One of my new year resolutions was to "not be the fat dad"
Since having a baby and another in the oven I have been packing on the pounds indulging in all of my wife's pregnant cravings.
I'm probably the heaviest I've ever been and can hardly fit in my suits.
Additionally, I am just plain embarrassed of myself these days and don;t even walk around the house anymore without a shirt on.
I hide myself from my wife and wouldn't even consider going to the beach or pool right now.

Today I started a 90 day challenge to lose weight and get fit.
I started this new year resolution today because I've spent the first 2 weeks of 2012 focusing on quitting smoking. Haven't smoked since NYE and feeling great and ready for the next step.

Anyway, the challenge I'm doing was introduced to me by a few friends who started doing this last year. They have lost weight and really transformed their bodies.

I researched many wellness programs as anally as I inspect and research a new rep watch!

The Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge is the one I chose.

It is a nutritional shake which contains many ingredients and promotes health, weight loss and well being. Additionally, it just so happens to be one of those...well...you guessed it...a multi level marketing program.

Now, before you stop reading or judge me for joining something like this I want to assure you that my reason and goal of this challenge is to lose weight, get healthy and tone my body. I do however, have many friends making thousands of dollars per month promoting this challenge, 3 of which are driving brand new black BMW cars which are paid for by the company. -Tagged pictures of their checks and BMWs are coming soon just for those who doubt me.

While I do very well in my real estate brokerage firm and don't need to make extra money I certainly want to pass this along to my fellow watch community. 1. I want you to consider joining me in my quest to get fit. 2. Maybe you can get fit and make a little extra scratch on the side. Who knows maybe one of you will be driving a free BMW because I decided to share this post with you.

Here you can find some more information on the challenge, buy product or even join as a distributor.

www.mincy.bodybyvi.com

Here is a video about the contents of the shake:
[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0E7qDz8eY[/AME]

Here is a video about the opportunity:
[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKsZlmEDDeU[/AME]

Join me in my challenge!
www.mincy.bodybyvi.com

If I can do it, so can you!

 

[giobo]

Good luck in this!!!!

 

[cybee]

Sounds like a worthwhile effort. It takes discipline to change ones lifestyle but you can do it. I try to drink a protein shake everyday but in the winter time seem to get a little lazy especially around the holidays.

Best of luck to you.

 

[Cynikal.Mindset]

while I don't really condone the whole body by vi pyramid thing I feel your pain with the preggers wife and eating junk with her...I had put on a easy 15-20lbs in the last 8 months and over the past 10 days I've been on a healthy living meal plan (no gimmick shakes etc) just a high protein, no simple carbs and minimal complex carbs and I have already dropped 12lbs in 14 days! oh yea...NO DAIRY!! The meal plan I follow is easy, cheap (regular supermarket foods) and it all tastes good...

good luck to ya mate...maybe you can sell some vi and get a bimmer

 

[JamDot]

while I don't really condone the whole body by vi pyramid thing I feel your pain with the preggers wife and eating junk with her...I had put on a easy 15-20lbs in the last 8 months and over the past 10 days I've been on a healthy living meal plan (no gimmick shakes etc) just a high protein, no simple carbs and minimal complex carbs and I have already dropped 12lbs in 14 days! oh yea...NO DAIRY!! The meal plan I follow is easy, cheap (regular supermarket foods) and it all tastes good...

good luck to ya mate...maybe you can sell some vi and get a bimmer

I tried this too, I just found it more convenient to make a simple shake in the mornings and at lunch. I'm not in it for the bimmer, I have a Gallardo :facepalm:

 

[RWIGWH]

ugh.

 

[acharria]

I join your challenge.. without shakes...
since.. NYE.. I have lost 4 pounds.. 20 more have to go!!
btw.. I also think this is a double challenge.. since quit smoking is a great way to gain pounds..
Good luck my friend.. btw.. please keep the girl in your avatar just like that!!

 

[Cynikal.Mindset]

I tried this too, I just found it more convenient to make a simple shake in the mornings and at lunch. I'm not in it for the bimmer, I have a Gallardo :facepalm:

fair enough...I make all my meals for the week on sunday night and put them in tupperwares so its just a grab and go in the morning. The shakes are pretty good though my wife got lured in to the 90 day challenge but then she ended up pregnant somehow icard: hahaha...so there were a couple bags of shake left and I had them for a while.

at the end of the day its about making a healthy life style and shedding some pounds...good luck!

 

[seriph]

FWIW for six weeks exactly, I wanted to see how many: situps and; pushups ,I'd be able to do. Let me just state at the outset I don't exercise as a rule ... I had a one-pack and all the jiggly bits that go with that.

Day one was an effort to say the least and by day three I was in a bit of pain.

One rather nasty sounding but great side effect was that I could literally 'see' the fat coming off me .... except I had NO idea what it was at the time.

Let me just say that ' a certain something' turned orangey brown instead of its regular brown colour. (aah I see you get it) That was weird. But, it was a very positive sign that at least something was happening.

Anyway, I struggled to do maybe 15 of each, at each sitting but I committed to seeing how this insanity would pan out.... I guess in a week I went from agony at 5 or 6 sets of 20 reps, to doing around 20 - 30 reps in 10 - 15 sets. This was throughout an entire day and whenever the mood took me, or I thought of it.

... thankfully, the pain subsided over a relatively short time and I recall that after 10 days I was able to do 40 situps and 50 pushups, around 15 - 20 times a day.

I max'd out at 80 situps and 110 pushups maybe 20 times per day (this GREAT burden takes a few minutes by the way AND you don't need to go anywhere or pay anyone to do it)

By the 60 day mark I had a slight four-pack, felt better in myself physically and could put my suit pants on again without pretending they must have shrunk while in the closet. My 'tone' was the best I had since being in my twenties - (53 now) and I am happy to say that it gave me more energy, which even though I am not doing THAT exercise any more, I walk our pooch every day and am renovating our home AND making furniture as a part-time business. I am not feeling as tired as I used to and we are enjoying a better life, EXCEPT for the fact that I can help around the house more often



I didn't change my eating habits by the way - my incredible and heroic wife works each day, drives or trains it, an hour home... THEN to relax and unwind .... cooks!

How good is my life???!!!





I cook too, but not as often as I could ... but I do a LOT of work on our place. Here is an entrance I made (just to be crystal clear - made means made, not 'paid' for) a couple of years back .... the hallway reno's are nearly complete - happy with how they're turning out - the door handle was a lot of fun ... apart from making some gramophone horns, hadn't really tried my hand at metalwork.

LIFE'S FOR LIVING

 

[PecMan]

very good ! my friend , be an example for ur family
not just 2 look good but be good inside as well
if u need tips
i maybe know litttle about nutrition and work out ( pm )
: )

 

[dholliday]

Wow.

 

[seriph]

Just one more boring thing - I call working on and around our home the "triple win" because I clear some of the building materials lying around, I get some exercise and we get a nicer home

 

[cybee]

Just one more boring thing - I call working on and around our home the "triple win" because I clear some of the building materials lying around, I get some exercise and we get a nicer home

That was a beautiful job you did. If you did all the wainscoting and moulding that is just fantastic.

 

[levelmanroger]

Wow, Seriph. Your work is amazing!


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[seriph]

thanks for the very kind remarks guys.... yup cybee - made means made. But I am making NO excuse when I reveal that the wainscot panels are actually MDF door skins, used for cheap sh1tty 4 or 6 panels doors .... calculated my heights to ensure an authentic look then cut the bottoms off them all in order to create the Georgian look. (one long under one short panel) ... everything else is made up of bits fabricated in the workshop. BTW each panel cost $2 from a salvage yard.

I will take some pics of the rest of the hall .... was done up until Christmas just gone. One thing I am particularly happy with is the LED lighting I installed. once I hard wire it in, it will be great, but what I did was house a 3.5 metre strip 'inside' the top rail of the wainscot so it is invisible when off and doesn't affect the look. That setup cost peanuts - I think the strip was $13 and the power supply, $12.



btw most of the timber came out of a dumpster/rubbish skip.

we really are idiots with ow much we waste

this cabinet was built to replace a redundant doorway after knocking a wall down .... two doors into one room .... naaaah. Holds around 2000 dvds from memory. Got all the raw material from a skip - learned some new skills as I hadn't done anything 'french' til then. hinges and handles I bought.... reluctantly The design is to emulate a Victorian hall cupboard in the hallway and in the library it is meant to look like it has been taken out of some French villa. All the 'age' is introduced of course. The timber is Douglas Fir - Aussies know it as Oregon and it is not used as a furniture timber he5re but as a low grade building material ..... sigh!

Link to the pics - http://s1098.photobucket.com/albums/g364/Steve_Ansell/AA Kilmore Renovation/DVD Cabinet/


CABINET BEFORE THE WORK COMMENCED ON THE HALL (can see the 'old' doors etc.)

LIBRARY SIDE 9 I didn't take the wall down by the way ... previous owners did)