Hi!  Haven’t posted in a while.  Haven’t much felt like I had anything terribly interesting to say.

Well, that’s all changed, at least for tonight.  A little back story:

My mother and I do the crossword puzzle in the local paper.  We were doing so one night last week, when she mentions to me that there’s something she wants me to read on page 3.  Turns out, a guy who’s a fitness trainer and health coach was looking for someone in the Stratford area to go into a program, free of charge, for 4 months.  There’ll be a competition in this, in that 2 other people in nearby towns will be doing the same, and they’re going to see which of the 3 people from the 3 towns loses the most weight.

Anyway, so I go to the local YMCA and pick up a form to fill out.  I fill it out, hand it back in, and get an interview time for the next day.  The fitness dude wants to meet the people who want to try out for this, to find the right “fit” for the position (ironic wording is no extra charge.  You’re welcome.).  A sensible precaution.

So, I go to the interview, and tell him what’s what with my life, and that I can have a flexible schedule, and so forth and so on.  He tells me about himself (he was once out of shape, and had the same thing happen to him as what he’s offering now, and it changed his life, etc.).  It all goes well, but there were at least 25 people on the list that he was interviewing.

I get a call tonight, 3 days after the interview.

Long story made slightly less long: I’m the one he picked!  Yay me!

Now, this is both a dietary and exercise regimen.  I will have dietary requirements that must be met, and I have to email him every single thing that I eat.  During our interview, I told him that I lost 50 pounds on the Atkins diet, and his reaction was “Well, Atkins got it *mostly* right.  You can’t eat any old protein you want, though, it has to be lean, dense protein.” So, there’s that.  Plus, it’s 4 workouts a week, at an hour and a half per workout.  No, you read that correctly: an hour and a half.  Specifically, an half an hour of cardiovascular workout, and an hour of weight (or “resistance”, he said) training.

6 hours of serious exercise a week. 

On the other hand, at the end of the 4 months, I’ll either be dead, or WAY more buff than I am now.  And if the results are going well, I’ll keep y’all updated on this blog.  If they’re going REALLY well, I might post pictures.  I haven’t decided that yet.

*flexes*

Way cool!  And, way to go Mom for seeing that! 

I’ll be expecting them pics up weekly.

dude, that’s awesome!

and I’ll second cornfed ... PICS!

How is the early stage of the program going?  I haven’t seen any pics yet?  Taking the time bush up on photoshop????