Starting from the Bottom

Soooo... I'm trying my luck at blogging again in hopes that it'll keep me more accountable of really sticking to this fitness journey that I'm on. This will be my journal, of sorts. I'll be posting workouts, challenges, recipes, and my overall progress throughout this whole thing. So first things first...

(left = 285...right = 260)

Last year, on the first of the year, I weighed 285.6lbs!!! By far, the heaviest I'd ever been in MY WHOLE LIFE! There are dozens of excuses that led to me ballooning up to that weight but I think that at the end of the day, my metabolism just got lazy as hell. Anyways, after some minor adjustments in my diet (less fried food, no alcohol during the week, eating more) and getting more committed to my workouts, I dropped some major weight. 

On January 1st of this year, I weighed in at 259.6lbs!! *insert round of applause here* I'm stoked! I really wanted to take some momentum into the New Year and so far so good. The biggest difference is in my diet. No alcohol during the week isn't so bad and actually...the more I think about it...seems more responsible (right?). Cutting back on fried food was easy once I really started finding recipes for delicious food that is healthy (I'll definitely be sharing with you all!). Lastly, eating more surprisingly helped a lot. That whole, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" saying might be true after all. Now I have 5 meals a day, making sure I ALWAYS eat breakfast.

The weight isn't just falling off though. To kind of switch it up, I'll be starting T25 on Monday, January 6th! A good cardio boost in the mornings and then I'll do weights 4-5 times a week in the evenings. Thanks to apps like Pact and MyFitnessPal, I'm really looking forward to seeing my progress this year!

Lastly, I guess I should explain the name of the blog, eh? Well, one of my frat bros actually shared it with me last year. We talked about how much goes into a truly healthy body. Like Rome, the healthy body that we all want won't be built in a day, but instead over time. I know I'm not the only one who's every worked out two days in a row and then got on the scale the next day, only to be discouraged by no change. So that's it...this is my journey. I'm bodybuilding Rome or #BuildingRome for shorthand (everyone loves hashtags, right?). I want to look back on these posts on January 1st of 2015 and say, "I succeeded because I was persistent and consistent." 

So there you have it...let's begin...