So I bet your wondering what the “Biggest Loser” has to do with my Ironman Journey. Well I’m glad you asked.
Once upon a time…wait, rewind, not sure I want to go back quite that far. Unfortunately (depending on how much fun you are having reading this dribble) though we have to go back to the summer of 2005. This was the turning point for me, leaving my sedentary ways behind and making a commitment to change my habits for a healthy lifestyle. On this day, July 16, 2005 @ 4:00 PM (not that I’m keeping track) I quit smoking, a pack+ per day habit that I had been nurturing for nearly 24-years (minus a 2-year hiatus where I had actually quit once before). Later that year, September, we joined Lifetime Fitness (local health club). I began to exercise 2-3 days per week, just walking on the treadmill initially. After several weeks of this (now becoming a habit and part of my routine).
==> Side note: this actually plays a significant role into the WHY question, News Flash
For those of you who do not know me very well “I have an addictive personality”
Anyway…
I decided that it was time to start running…whoops!
I was feeling some pain as I approached the 2-mile mark and told my self, suck it up wimp! After a visit to my family doctor and an MRI I was told, that I had stress fractures in both legs on the face of the tibia bones.
Fast forward 3-months…
In January of 2006, I joined the “Biggest Loser Club” online, at this point I was at my heaviest ever, 265-pounds, and was still committed to a healthier lifestyle, although more then a little gun shy.
With the help of my wife, Charlene, who plans and cooks 99% of our meals, I was successful in following the nutrition plan. The online tools were easy to use and truly did help. The exercise plan from Bob Harper (one of the shows personal trainers), which although very basic, helped produce a 55-pound weight loss in 5-months.
It was later that year, September 2006, that I did my first triathlon, and as they say, the rest is history. Now more then 2-years later and 65-pounds lighter, good nutrition and exercise, are more about who I am then what I do, in as much as, the Multisport lifestyle is more about who I am then what I do.
