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Sometimes the motivation for weightloss starts from several sources, and sometimes for some of the least reasonable reasons. Looking at your flab in the mirror helps, at least until you eat that next pizza or double bacon cheeseburger. Then you don’t care! Finding out that now one of your parents and a second sibling has diabetes knocks you for a bit. But what really got me started? My high school 10 year reunion! Most of these people I haven’t seen in, well, 10 years, and those who have I’m not trying to impress. Whatever, this is my poison. And it’s been working.

I started a few months back going to the gym. Real regular visitor until I got hit with a nasty chest cold, then later when my truck got broken into up there. I did manage to loose around 10 pounds or so, and was feeling a lot better already. Then I made the attempt to quit smoking, which only helped to gain back 5 of those pounds! Ugh!

Then I got better idea. Several of my friends started working out with Insanity, a cardio intense workout from Beach Body. I had never heard of Insanity before, but I had heard of another one of their workouts, P90X. Knowing what kind of results I saw from people who used P90X, but not wanting to get all of the equipment, I decided to give Insanity a try.

It’s a lot more than just a simple cardio workout. It is an intense workout plan not only covering what workouts you do, but what you should eat, how often you should eat, etc. A dietary change and an intense workout, sounded like a plan to me.

Well, today is day 1. Sticking to the food plan (calculated I need to consume between 1900 and 2100 calories a day), I did the fit test. Wow that kick my butt!

Anyways, I’m going to update this once a week to show my progress, and so those of you who are thinking about committing to losing the buldge, or just bulking up and improving your cardiovascular level, can have something to guide by.

The results I have seen have varied from 10 pounds to 30 pounds of weight loss. Of course that’s not always a good indicator, since muscle weighs more than fat. So I will be including my stats each week.