180-Pound Weight Loss In 2004, Firming Through Resistance Training In 2008

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 12:13 am

Four years after losing 180 pounds, it’s time to tone up

The year 2004 was a turning point in my life. Starting the year weighing in at a robust 410 pounds, I had a steep hill to climb to get my life back. But the great thing was I had a proven plan in place that merely needed to be implemented and executed. And the rest they say is history!

It’s no secret that the Atkins diet worked and worked AMAZINGLY well on me unlike any other diet I had ever been on. The low-carb lifestyle is so easy to follow and much more pleasurable than the same old tired low-fat, low-calorie diets we’ve always been told is “healthy” that I can’t understand why anyone would want to eat any other way. Unless you are a glutton for punishment, it doesn’t make sense to NOT be livin’ la vida low-carb. But that’s just me.

However, I do want to share one major regret that I have about my weight loss experience four years ago. As awesome an accomplishment that it was (and I’ll never deny the positive impact it made on my life for the better) and as good as I have felt ever since taking the weight off, I wish I had been taught how to do resistance training and gotten comfortable with it as part of my workout routine.

Click here to read about my decision to finally hire a personal trainer to help me get toned up in 2008 as I enter the next phase of my health journey.