FOCUS, DANIEL-SAN

So the few of you who visit here will notice that much has changed here on my blog. I want to re-focus and re-purpose this thing, partially because it feels pointless to ratttle on about my life with no end in mind, and also because I need the accountability of tracking my progress in front of people.

Here's the backstory:

I started out more or less the first of 2008 weighing in at 399.6 lbs. No excuses, no rationalizing, I just let myself go. I am 29 years old, and I looked at my kids (6 and 1), and honestly with the way I was feeling, was scaed about how long I was going to be here for them. A lot of things began to happen all at once. We started a weight-loss competition at work, I started taking Taekwondo (OK,I had been doing it for a while with my daughter, but I hadn't really worked at it until about January), and my wife started seeing a doctor who put us on an awesome nutrition plan tghat has helped us both to lose weight.

So, now fast-forward to today. I am now at 314 lbs, just about half-way to my goal of 225 lbs by December (I may actually try to go to 200, but 225 is 10 lbs ligher than I've ever been as an adult, so I wanted to be realistic about my body (muscle weighs more than fat, baby). I've lost 85 lbs, I am now a Red Belt (decided) in Taekwondo, I am running a half-marathon in August, and plan to test for my black belt by December. From here, I plan to talk about the process, what works and what doesn't, how I'm feeling and how I get things done, and maybe someone will stumble across this and it will help them. WHO KNOWS?!?! Having said this, we begin......