Back to the Mountains That I Love!

Hey everyone out there. Well, I have been on this site for awhile now... Silently keeping to myself, not really exploring to much outside of my little corner of FitClick. Tonight I have decided "What the heck, I am not sure if anyone will ever read this... but why not do it... Like therapy."

When I first started on this site I was not very happy with my image. I used to be quite slender, maybe not the strongest man out there, but I was healthy and active. I moved to the city 4 years ago and had quit doing the things that I love, which is pretty much anything in the outdoors. Last summer I failed miserably during a solo hike and part of the reason was that I was drastically out of shape.

So Christmas came and went and there I was... staring at myself in the mirror, looking down at the scale, and staring at myself in the mirror... I was disgusted, 210 pounds and rising. Back in the day when I was heavily into the outdoors in my little town... Rock/Ice climbing, mountaineering, hiking etc. I was a healthy 175 pounds. Where or where was that guy from long ago.

So, February is when it all changed, I started hitting the gym and trying to follow things here on FitClick. Mainly I was working out, and cutting in half everything that I ate before... as I know I was over eating. As well, I cut out all the things with more ingredients that I could not pronounce than the ones I could. Basically trying to eat more organic.

Since February I have platooed to 185, which is a 25 pound loss... and I feel very good about that. Will I lose that extra 10 pounds that I wanted to? Not likely, as I am now gaining muscle. But one thing I do know... I feel like a million bucks and I am back out into the woods and hiking again... and no longer failing miserably!