Blog #1 September 20, 2009
Hello everyone and thank you for visiting WorththeWeightmovie.com!
I am very excited to debut this project! It has been nearly a year in the making. The concept of WorththeWeightmovie.com started in November of 2008 when I decided I needed to lose weight for good. I formed WorththeWeightmovie.com to inspire and motivate myself to lose weight.
The goal is to lose 200 pounds. I have lost 100 so far. We are at the half way point. Exciting stuff I know!
We have been filming footage for the actual "movie" since December '08. We will continue to shoot scenes and footage of "Worth the Weight, the movie" for the next 4-6 months. In the meantime, you will be able to read my blogs, view video clips of the process of me losing the remaining 100 pounds.
This project is a lot of fun and I really wanted to let you all in on it. I know a lot of you out there struggle with your weight and it's tough. If anybody knows about the ups and downs of being overweight, trust me I know. I have lived through it my entire life. I wake up with it everyday.
I am here to lose weight, get fit, and stay that way! It's been a good ride so far losing the first 100 pounds, and cannot wait to shed the next 100.
Welcome to WorththeWeightmovie.com, enjoy the show!
- Sean Buckley (359)
I lost 30 pounds from Jan. '09 to June '09 and I wasn't losing weight at the pace I should of been. That is why Corbin's expertise and guidance was needed. He had the knowledge and positive attitude to help give me that "edge" I was looking for. I highly recommend his services. Whether you live in the Indianapolis area or not, he is only a phone call or e-mail away. If you are serious about getting fit, being happy, confident, and staying that way, contact him now!
Corbin Richards
E-mail: carichar13@wabash.edu
Cell: 317-440-8053
Blog # 3 November 24, 2009
It has been 7 weeks since my last blog. I am still working out Monday through Friday. I am finding new ways to sweat. My last blog I talked about how awesome it was to start jogging and the goals I acheived by doing so. I always hoped that I wouldn't get hurt working out. There have been many pulled and sore muscles and little aches and pains here and there but it hasn't been anything that has kept me out fo the gym for longer than a day or two.
I was really starting to enjoy my morning jogs. It was refreshing and it allowed me time to think about things and I felt great mentally afterwards. It was going so well in fact that I considered doing a mini marathon next summer. No joke. Years ago my mom got into the best shape of her life and she did a marathon or two in her day and I thought of how cool it would be to have two people in the family that have run marathons.
It was all I thought about during my jogs. I was dream building while I jogged. This is how it went. Every spring, Indianapolis has what they call the "Mini-Marathon" where you run a 2.5 or a 5k run that concludes on the 2.5 mile oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. How cool would that be? Run a marathon on a historic place like that? My mom now suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and it would be awesome to raise money and run for the Arthritis Foundation. It will happen one day.
Well that dream is now being put on hold. Since January of this year I have been going pretty hard. Since the drop of the green flag I have been trying to work out and exercise like a 175 pound person. I used the "no pain, no gain" moniker but I was always a little worried that I may be pushing too hard. Through this entire process I have been worried that I would get an injury that would slow down my progress.
I tore or pulled something in my right now and even though I can walk and do cardio on a machine in the gym, I am very limited on my mobility. It hurts to even walk up or down stairs. I have always had issues with my knees but I really did a number this time. But I gotta press on. I can still walk and exercise and even though I can't jog right now, it's not the end of the world. Enough of the cry baby stuff, now on to something cool and positive!
I hit another amazing goal today. When I say amazing I really mean it. Getting in shape and keeping weight off is more mental than physical. I believe that. To mentally endure a specific amount of time in the gym is tough. Not everyone wants to be in the gym or do cardio for an hour. You have to push yourself not only on the physical side, but the mental side as well.
Today I did the elipital machine for 60 straight minutes. That's right, 1 full hour. An hour is a long time. I have never done a full hour straight on a cardio machine before. When I started it was 15 minutes, then 20, then 30, then as of late it has been 40 minutes and even that is a long time.
Today was awesome. I had a guy to my left (who was already working out when I got there) and another dude to my right. My goal was to outlast them. My mindset was to go longer and not quit until there were done and gone. I was 35 minutes into my cardio when I asked myself, "how long have these guys been going?" "They were here before me, and I'm going on 40 minutes!" So I made a game out of it. I made the decision that I am going to do an hour. If they outlast me then they are they bigger man. So 40 minutes went by, then 45, then 50, then right at the 52 minute mark (guy to my left tapped out) and he hopped off the machine. One guy down, one to go. The dude to my right started after me by only a few minutes and right around the 55 minute mark he threw in the towel. "I did it," I thought to myself. Not only did I outlast those two guys, It also gave me enough "drive" to hit that 60 minute mark. Damn it felt good!
One year ago when I was waddling around this planet at nearly 500 pounds I never thought I would be doing 60 straight minutes of cardio, or jogging two miles every morning, or stressing out that I need new (smaller) clothes to fit in.
These are all good things. Setting and acheiving your goals is what life is about. Life is a mental game and you have to be mentally strong to keep your head above water.
My "west coast" vacaction is nearly over. I go back home to Indiana next month. My weight loss has slowed down due to many many reasons. I am not losing the 6-8 pounds a week like I was over the summer. But that's ok. It is forcing me to make better eating decisions, and it is making me push myself harder everyday in the gym.
I have lost nearly 20 pounds since Oct. 7. That brings my total to nearly 120 pounds gone for good. I am happy about my progress this year. I wanted to lose all 200 this year but that is not realistic. Getting in shape and eating right is a life change and that's what it is, FOR LIFE. My program is not about gimmicks and losing weight quickly. It's about being aware everyday of what I put in my body and making sure I get to the gym.
I have put a lot of pressure on myself this year. I really wanted to get all 200 off in one year but like I said, that is not safe. Weight is suppose to come off and stay off. Crash diets and fad diets are just that.
I can honestly say that I am getting happier about the way I look. You have to just take it one day at a time.
I will remember 2009 as the year that I decided to live longer and make positive changes in my life. Out with the old and negative and in with the new and positive.
By the way, I am still a 300 pounder and come spring time that will all change!
It's funny when you look at it like this, in the course of a year, I will have seen the scale go from 400 plus pounds, to 300 plus pounds, to 200 plus pounds, incredible.
Everybody have a great holiday season and remember to exercise after all those holiday feasts! You can eat the prime rib, fudge, cookies, ect. Just get out there a burn it off. You'll feel so much better about yourself.
The dude on the left is Corbin Richards. He works at the Health Spot Vitamin store in Avon Indiana.
Corbin is the person responsible for helping me get on track. I met him at the Health Spot and we started talking. I told him what my goals were and he told me he can help me. He said "come back in a few days and i'll write you up a workout routine and nutrition menu."
I came back a few days later and sure enough he did what he said he was going to do. He wrote me out a workout plan tailored special for me and my body type and actitivity level.
The workout consists of low weight/ high rep lifting and cardio.
I started this new "workout routine" on June 22, 2009. Since that day I have managed to shed nearly 70 pounds.
Blog #2 October 09, 2009
What's up everybody? It's been almost 3 weeks since we kicked off "Worth the Weight." My progress has slowed down some. Why? Here are a few key reasons. Number one, I believe I hit a plateau. Trainers say that when you get in a routine, at some point your body recognizes that pattern and it doesn't allow your body to show progess. So, you have to "shock" your body by doing different workouts. A solid and consistent workout and eating regiment is good but only for so long, you have to switch it up!
So that is what I have been doing the last two weeks. I have switched up my eating and workouts shocking my body so it will start producing the results I need. What am I doing different now?
Last Friday (Oct 2nd) I decided that it was time to take it "old school" and start jogging on flat land. I have spent the last 3.5 months in the gym doing the same ol' cardio machines day in and day out. Your body gets use to it. So, as I mentioned before, you have to find new ways to get into shape. So, jogging is my new love. Who would of thunk it? I never would of thought (back in January) that I would be jogging and actually enjoying it. My weight prohibited me from doing so. My ankles, knees, back, and shins, let me know really quick that jogging was not a smart and safe thing to do at 460 pounds. I would be literally out of breath walking up the stairs to my bedroom. Since January I have lost a 106 pounds and now my body is allowing me to do things I could not physically do before.
The decision to start jogging came when I simply tried to do it one day inside the gym basketball court. I started a nice slow and steady pace and it felt good. I didn't jog for very long. Maybe 40 or 50 yards. Running on hardwood never felt so good! Later that night I thought to myself , "hey, I wonder if I could jog a mile without stopping?" That is a feat I have NEVER successfully completed. Keep in mind, I have always been a fat kid with an attitude and middle school P.E. teachers (no matter how hard thy tried, or threatened detention) could never get me to run a full mile.
So after a few minutes of thinking about the "mile jog", I made up my mind and decided that when I woke up, I was going to make the "mile jog" my bitch! So I woke up last Friday, put on some layers (it was 40 degrees outside) did my stretching exercises and headed out. Now I gotta be honest with you, after the first 100 yards, I was asking myself, "what the hell am I doing?", "there is no way I am going to make it!"
Bon Jovi's "Have a Nice Day" was thumping in the headphones and for some reason I kept digging. I wasn't getting winded. My legs, knees, ankles, shins, and back weren't hurting. I was actually jogging! I was really doing it! It felt great, my arms were pumping, the cold air slamming in and out of my lungs, it was awesome!
My legs and calves started to tighten about half way through. Not enough to make me stop jogging though. As i'm jogging I think and daydream. I think and ask myself questions. Can I do this? Will I do this? Wouldn't it be awesome to jog a mile without stopping? Will I yell and scream with pride when I cross that finish line? What a small victory for myself If I can do it. These are the things that played over and over in my head as i'm jogging through 40 degree weather.
Three quarters of the way through Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" was the next song on the IPOD and it was quite fitting. It couldn't of came at a better time. The "mile jog" was starting to get tough. My legs and calves were getting so tight it was starting to work me over mentally. My calves were on FIRE. It felt like I had tight little tennis balls for calve muscles. I had to keep digging and I did so. As much as I wanted to stop I had to keep fighting. The feeling I knew I would have if I cold jog a mile without stopping. That's what drove me, that was the end results I wanted so I kept on.
The last 200 yards I could see the finish line getting closer and closer. "I'm gonna do it, i'm gonna do it," I kept saying to myself. All those years of P.E. teachers yelling at me, all those years of being too fat to jog a mile, the embarrassment knowing you couldn't do certain things because you can't seem to put a fork down mounted on this one moment. That's what was driving me to the finish line. The pride, the desire to do this. My legs were heavy. I was finally sucking some serious wind. I am now a 100 yards away when I decided I am going run the last stint. I was pumping my arms, using every bit of energy I had to get across that line. As I finished my first "mile jog" ever I was overwhelmed with emotion. I kept saying to myself, "I did it, I did it!" I walked around in circles out of breath, sore, but it all felt amazing. It was a small victory for me. I felt like a climbed "Everest." That jog was a huge breakthrough and it was exactly what I needed to catapult myself into the next phase of this project.
I have jogged everyday this week and I am happy to tell you that today is first time in my life I have jogged 2 MILES without stopping. That's right, one week ago I jogged a mile for the first time, and today was another milestone as I was able to jog 2 miles without stopping.
I am so happy. I am really excited about the progess. I am looking forward to each workout and the benefits that come with it. However this process is not getting any easier that's for sure. I am down 106 pounds. I have 94 more to go. It is hard to not get emotional about it (corny I know). I'm sure a lot of you have watched "Biggest Loser" on tv and you wonder why those people cry when they see their results. We all get emotional because you set goals and you achieve those goals to better and save your own life. It tears of joy, not sadness.
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E-mail: Sean@worththeweightmovie.com
