Day #13: February 4th, Tuesday

Today I weighed 205.5 but given how my weekend went I should be happy that I'm only at 205.5. I felt awesome today! One of the best days I've felt since I've started the challenge. I put on a shirt for school today that I've been too self conscience to wear but today I put it on and it felt great. I then got home from school and put on some clothes to workout in and my face looked skinnier today too. It was awesome and I've loved being healthy. I even turned down chocolate cake haha. Today Megan and I ran from my parents house to the gym which is exactly 4.1 miles It was the hardest run and I wanted to quit so bad because it was snowing so hard and you could barely see since the snow kept getting in my eyes. The ground was slippery too so we had to be extra careful. Needless to say, I will be running inside tomorrow.

Day #12: February 3rd, Monday

Well surprisingly when I weighed myself today, I weighed 205.7. I couldn't believe it because of all the junk I ate yesterday. I ate A LOT OF JUNK!! I knew it would be a bad day so I kinda gave myself a freebee on that one. Today I ran 4 miles in 35:47. I have to give my body a break since I've been pushing so hard. I'm going to go easier, then on Friday I'm going to go for another PR. That would be awesome if I could break 33 minutes. Today was a good day because I was able to shrink down a belt loop. By the end of the day it felt pretty tight but I didn't care because it felt so good to actually see the physical results. All I need to lose is another 10 pounds and I will actually be the weight that I was at when I was 19 years old. Not bad at all. If I lose 20 (Which would be incredible) I would be at the weight I was at my senior year of high school. My goal for this week is to get to 203 pounds.

Day #11: February 1st, Saturday

Today I wasn't able to weigh myself but I bet it wasn't too good because of last night. My goal today is to eat perfect since we are having the superbowl party tomorrow and I know that my mom will have a bunch of unhealthy food there. Today I didn't feel like going to the gym mainly because I thought that I would push myself too hard so that I could get another PR. My body is tired and needs rest from the treadmill, so instead Megan and I went to the Bonneville Shorline Trail and ran that. It was so cool to see how much I've improved in these last two weeks. I've never run that trail so fast. It was so awesome to see the city when it was snowing. We even took a picture at the top of hells tower. My family is starting to really notice my weight loss and it's fun to hear them congratulate me. Most importantly is that I feel good about myself once again.

Day #10: January 31st, Friday

Today I got a personal record of 33:35 on 4 miles, it felt so good! The coolest part was that I felt like I could have gone another mile and it wouldn't have been that much tougher. I felt so good getting a 33:35 PR. But a part of me wonders how I did 28 minutes when I was 21. I bet I can get down to that again but I know its going to be a while before I get there again. I'm so glad that I worked out because tonight we are going to be hanging out with Jon and Kim and I know we are going to have some crappy food. So my workout will hopefully be able to cancel that out.

Day #9: January 30th, Thursday

Today was a pretty good day. I can still see the difference in my body as I did yesterday. It's not a huge difference but it's enough to put a smile on my face. I weighed 206 today so I'm feeling good. I was hoping I'd be around 205 but I'm already ahead of my goal weight for this week so I shouldn't complain. Today was a good learning experience for me. I was in a bad mood all day and was really grumpy. I did not want to go to the gym at ALL! At about the time I was supposed to go my stomach started hurting and immediately I got happy and thought that this would be the perfect excuse not to go to the gym. But I kept thinking about the 100 day challenge and how I can't give up. Next thing I knew I was headed out the door and on the way to the gym. It was such a cool feeling to have. I had a pretty good excuse where I wouldn't even feel bad about. But rather than succumb to temptation like I usually would, I went out and worked out. It was such a good day today!

Day #8 January 29th, Wednesday

Today I woke up and I felt light so I looked in the mirror and it's probably the first day where I looked and saw a difference in my body. I then weighed myself and I was 206.. I couldn't believe it and I was so happy. The 100 day challenge is working!! I've lost 6 pounds and today is only day #8 in the challenge. By the end of the 100 days I want to be at 185 pounds. That would feel so amazing. That would be 27 pounds in 100 days. I think I can do it, but once I plateau I will at least be in the shaper where I can do something more. I realized today that it has been a year and a half since I've been at that weight. 25 years old is still young, just because I'm married and not in high school anymore, doesn't mean I have to feel like crap about myself.

Day #7: January 28th, Tuesday

Today I woke up and the first thing I noticed is that I felt better than usual. The weekend was horrible but I felt good about myself again. First thing I did was check the mirror and it looked a little better but I couldn't really tell. Then when I weighed myself, I was at 207.8! That's the lowest I've been since I won the weight competition between my family a few months ago. It feels good to know that I'm not just motivated by money to lose weight like I was before. I ate really good today and I know its because I'm exercising. I don't want to waste my exercise on food. I looked back at Day #1 and even though I'm at day #7 I seriously feel like a brand new person. If you feel like crap about yourself the answer really is to go to the gym and be dedicated and even just after a week you will feel the difference. I don't know if the 100 day challenge will work for everyone but it is working so well for me. I mean, I know that it would work for everyone I just don't know if it would get everyone as motivated as me. but I really am loving the way I feel about myself. And today I ran 4 miles in 34:15! Woohoo

Day #6: January 27th, Monday

Well over the weekend (Sat/Sun) I did horrible and it almost made my whole week not worth it. I ate like crap both Saturday and Sunday so when I weighed myself this morning I was 210.5. It's crazy that I put in five great days of exercise, losing a little more than four pounds, and just two days of eating bad with no exercise I gained 2.5 pounds back. Moral of the story. Be strong! My goal for this week is to be at 206 pounds. That should be very realistic so hopefully I can get it done. I ran four miles in 34:45 so I felt great about that. I am going to start to put in an hour at the gym from now on rather than just four miles. I feel like if I add variety to my workouts I won't plateau as fast. I still can't believe how bad my metabolism is. I ate and exercised perfectly for five days and lost four pounds. Then I eat bad for two days and gain 2.5 pounds. That's not fair haha. This week I will make sure the gym is a priority so that I don't miss a day. I guarantee if I would have exercised on Saturday before I went shooting I wouldn't have eaten that bad.

January 25th, Saturday

Today I let the lazy Taylor out. I went shooting today with my good buddies and when I got home I was so tired and discouraged. I was discouraged because I ate so bad. I ate tons of M&Ms and I felt so bad about it because I felt like all my work in the first week went to waste. I got home from shooting at around 6:00 and it was already dark and I hadn't seen my wife all day. So rather than going to the gym I decided to hang out with my best friend. Today was a good learning lesson. I said yesterday that if I missed one day then the whole challenge would be ruined, but that is not the case. I think so many people that start exercising or diet get so committed in the beginning that they say, "Ok, from now on I am going to be perfect." When in reality that isn't the case and there will always be a moment where we slip. I just need to pick myself back up and keep going. During my 100 days, there will be days where I am sick, don't have time, or any other excuse that are valid. But rather than saying, "well... I guess I start back over." I need to follow through and work as hard as I can to get my 100 days challenge finished. Because I didn't work out today I can't count this as a day towards my 100 days. I just have to keep days like this to a minimum and depending on how the next weeks go I may just have to say I need to work out five days a week. I just know that when I am exercising I feel good, and because I feel good it makes me not want to eat bad so that my workout was worth something.

Day #5: January 24th, Friday

Today was a good day. It was easy to want to go to the gym at the beginning of the day but when I got home from work I laid in my bed and started watching T.V. That is when I realized that the more comfortable you are, the harder it is to exercise. I could hear all the excused run through my mind so that I didn't have to go to the gym. It almost worked until I really thought about the 100 day challenge and I didn't want to skip a day or the whole challenge would be ruined. At the gym I ran four miles and I did it in 34:45 which is my best time since I started this challenge. I know it's not that great right now but hopefully by the end of the 100 days I can run that in 28 minutes which is what I could do before I got married... When I weighed myself today I actually gained .8 pounds. I don't know why I gained but I'm sure that this will happen a bunch during my 100 days. I can't lose a pound a day every day. Even though I gained a little bit I didn't let it get to me because I felt so good about myself. That to me is the most important thing about my body, If 45 minutes at the gym does that for me, the sacrifice is nothing.

Day 4: January 23rd, Thursday

Today I woke up and because I have been losing weight consistently every day I decided to weigh myself and I weighed 208 pounds exactly! I already obtained my goal weight in just four days. The original goal was to be 208 by Sunday but I don't mind being ahead of schedule. I don't know how much longer I will keep losing about a pound a day so my new goal is to be at 207 by Sunday. Today I woke up and felt great about myself again. It is just a normal thing to feel good about myself and its only been four days of working out. Also, because I exercise so much, food isn't as much of a temptation. When I see bad food it looks great and everything but I don't want it to cancel out my exercise for the day. Today I didn't feel like going to the gym so I decided to run outside. I think it was a little more than four miles but it was kinda nice just to run and not have to look at the numbers on the treadmill the whole time. It was a good day.

Day 3: January 22, 2014

Today I had to hit the gym early since I work from 1:00 - 7:30. I know that if I didn't go this morning, I wouldn't go at all since it will already be late when I get done with work. I woke up and weighed myself and I was 209.4. I have 3 days to get to 208, which sounds very realistic for me right now. Today I woke up and felt great about myself. I am a lot happier with my body and I know I look the same as day 1, but right now what is most important is the way I feel. To change your body, it takes more than 3 days, but to change the way you feel about your body takes the action of doing something about it. Right now I feel great and I know by day 100 I will look and feel great too. I am just so happy I am doing something about my body. I am too young to be overweight. Today was a lot easier to go to the gym. I woke up and was looking forward to going. And as of right now, I am excited to go to the gym tomorrow. Life is good right now, and I am loving this 100 day challenge. I am also taking a photo a day, or maybe once a week. Maybe I will attach the pictures to each week too.

Day 2: January 21, 2014

Day 2 at the gym was a lot easier than yesterday. I was actually kind of excited to go. When I woke up today, my body didn't feel overweight even though the mirror showed different. I weighed myself at 210.4 pounds, so already a pound and a half lighter. I felt good about myself today because I know I am actually doing something about it. Whenever I start working out, I usually lose weight pretty quick, then I plateau. I am guessing around 200 pounds will be my plateau and it will be hard to get out of the 200 pound club. I ran 4 miles again today and it was actually harder than yesterday. Tomorrow I might have to take the 4 miles a little slower. As I am writing this now, I can see my belly sticking out, but I feel good. I am really enjoying this 100 day challenge and I know by day 100 I will be at my goal weight. I remember I used to be at the point where if I didn't go to the gym that day I would feel like crap. I would love to get back to that point. My goal for this week is to get down to 208 and I am only 2.4 pounds away. I know I can do it.

Day 1: January 20, 2014

My name is Taylor Brown, and this is my first experience with the blogging world. Last month, I set a goal for myself titled "The 100 Day Challenge: Weight Loss", and includes me going to the gym 6 days a week to prove to myself that I will be a happier person if I live a healthier lifestyle. I am about 24 days into this challenge, and have been recording daily what I have gone through in a leather bound journal. I have recently given a lot of thought about sharing my experience in a more public way in hopes to help someone else accomplish their goals. I know this 100 day commitment has helped me, and I hope the blogging of my daily accounts helps someone else commit to their goals.

This journal is specifically for my 100 day challenge. Dave Ramsey (financial guru) talks about improving yourself and to do that, rather than trying to focus on a million things at once, you focus on just one thing you want to work on. Once you are in the habit, you move on to the next thing. These next 100 days, I will be working on my weight. For the next 100 days, I will be going to the gym everyday Monday - Saturday and rest on Sundays. I am sick of feeling overweight and want to feel confident about myself again. I weigh about 210 pounds now, and I want to get to the 185-195 range. About a year and a half ago, I reached 195 pounds, so I know this is a realistic goal. The purpose of the journal is the record what I did for the exercise, how much I weigh, and how I feel about myself that day. I think that I should see a big improvement in my confidence and my happiness. 


I went to the gym at 5:00 today and even though I got all motivated to do the 100 day challenge, it was actually really hard to get motivated. I just had to push and think of how much better I will feel. When I got to the gym, I decided to run 4 miles. I started at 6.5 and increased .1 every mile. It felt really good and my ending time was 35:48. Tomorrow I will do the same. I weighed myself today and I was 212 feeling like crap, but after I went to the gym I feel awesome. I know I still weigh 212 pounds, but because I worked out today, I feel a lot lighter now. Day #1 was a success and I can't wait to get out of the 200 pound club. I bet by day 30 I will be out of it. but we will see. Going to the gym seems like such a hard thing, but I got done with my workout in under 45 minutes. It was well worth it, especially because I feel so much better now. Plus Megan, my wife, loves me so much more just for going to the gym with her.

Introduction

My name is Taylor Brown, and this is my first experience with the blogging world. Last month, I set a goal for myself titled "The 100 Day Challenge: Weight Loss", and includes me going to the gym 6 days a week to prove to myself that I will be a happier person if I live a healthier lifestyle. I am about 24 days into this challenge, and have been recording daily what I have gone through in a leather bound journal. I have recently given a lot of thought about sharing my experience in a more public way in hopes to help someone else accomplish their goals. I know this 100 day commitment has helped me, and I hope the blogging of my daily accounts helps someone else commit to their goals.

This journal is specifically for my 100 day challenge. Dave Ramsey (financial guru) talks about improving yourself and to do that, rather than trying to focus on a million things at once, you focus on just one thing you want to work on. Once you are in the habit, you move on to the next thing. These next 100 days, I will be working on my weight. For the next 100 days, I will be going to the gym everyday Monday - Saturday and rest on Sundays. I am sick of feeling overweight and want to feel confident about myself again. I weigh about 210 pounds now, and I want to get to the 185-195 range. About a year and a half ago, I reached 195 pounds, so I know this is a realistic goal. The purpose of the journal is the record what I did for the exercise, how much I weigh, and how I feel about myself that day. I think that I should see a big improvement in my confidence and my happiness.