The Journey Begins

Alright, tomorrow begins a new journey into shaping a whole new body for myself. I've decided to change everything about the way I eat and workout by taking on P90X. I'll admit, I actually started the workouts and diet 5 days ago, but in the interest of satisfying my OCD and starting with Day 1 on a Monday, I'm officially starting tomorrow. So far, the workouts have been intense and the nutrition plan has been, well, expensive, but I'm really pumped to do this and to start seeing some results!

I've decided to blog about this for three reasons: 1) To keep a journal and have something to look back on later; 2) to hopefully have a success story to inspire others; and 3) to keep myself motivated, because let's be honest, it will be embarrassing if I stop blogging suddenly and don't follow brought with this.

Here is the daily routine I have developed and it has been working thus far:

5:00am Wake Up, start drinking water, walk Max (my dog)
5:30am Meet at the gym and start work out
7:00am Get home, start making breakfast, cook lunch while eating breakfast
9:00am Leave for work
10:30am Eat allotted snack (usually a protein bar)
12:30pm Eat lunch
4:00pm Eat allotted snack (usually nuts or turkey jerky)
7:30pm Get home, make dinner
9:30pm Go to bed
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Of course, this is just a typical day. Things will come up and I will adjust accordingly.

So, to get us started, here are my BEFORE pictures. I'm supposed to take pics every 30 days, but we'll see; I haven't decided if I'm going to do weekly pictures as well. Depends if there is enough to take pictures of... Might make for a fun montage later... I'll post measurements tomorrow.