Losing Weight

So if you know me, you know back in high school & even in college I weighed between 120-130 lbs with most of the weight consisting of muscle. So that means between 2004 to 2010, I gradually gained 40 lbs. bringing my weight as of today to 170 lbs. Now I can say that some of this weight is still muscle but I can also say that the majority of the 40 lbs. is fat, purely fat. How sad is that? So why let my figure go to the wayside, no reason, pure laziness. I believed I could still eat and drink everything I did in high school and college...WRONG!

I know it takes 3,500 calories to burn in order to lose one pound. I also know in order for me to have kept the weight I was at, I needed to have burned and consumed equal amounts of calories. Even with knowing all of this, I still consumed a lot of calories without the burning any of them off. As a result, 40 lbs. heavier.

I've been telling people I'm going to start working out, or start dieting....And I do start but 2-3 weeks go by and I'm back to my old habits. I seriously don't know if I have the drive or will to do it.

I know I need to take baby steps but that big picture just creeps on into my mind and bam I'm defeated.

Then I have the temptations of eating out and going out drinking that I succumb to way too much.

So the only way I know for me to actually see this through is to make it public and let everyone who reads this know my trials, errors, and accomplishments along the way to achieving success. It's going to suck! But this time I'm not going to tell my friends, because I know they don't think I can do it. I've cried wolf too many times.

You know the saying or physic's law I suppose, that states matter never really leaves the world it only shifts around. So for example, if I gain weight, then someone else in the world loses weight. Well, to the world I'm giving the weight I took back to whoever gave it to me. The world is going to shift in my favor this time.

The bottom line of this drawn out monologue is that I am fed up with the way I look and I'm going to make a conscience effort to restructure my life.

D Rock

Photography

I've been going through all of my pictures I have taken over the last couple of years and I must say I think I could sell some of these pictures for money. Seriously, I am a pretty good picture taker if I don't say so myself. I understand I had good subjects for most of these and I have a good camera. I have even considered purchasing one of those high-tech cameras with the multiple lens and what not. If I do this, then it will probably take me a year or so to figure out how to use it.

Here are six of the pictures I have taken that I feel could be published or reproduced. I know its a long shot but I seriously think these pictures are very good! The flowers were taken at the Jardim Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the tigers were taken at the Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, and the pictures of the children were taken in Burkina Faso, Africa.

Well, to my one viewer let me know what you think.

D Rock