American Gladiators

About 2 weeks ago Andrew Cross and I decided that for Halloween we were going to be American Gladiators. What better to be for Halloween then one of the Heroes of my childhood. We started discussing it more and came to realize that this could single handly be one of the greatest costumes ideas of all time. However we then came to the grand realization that neither one of look like American Gladiators. Andrew wasn't nearly big enough and well hell I am way to flabby and fat to be an American Gladiator.

How big was I? Well on the first weigh-in I was (drumroll please......) 283lbs or roughly one Rosie O'Donnell. I was absolutely shocked. I knew I was big but I didn't think I was that big. 283 was heavier then I was during my last season of football by about 10lbs. It was at that point I decided to make a change. The motivation of having to wear a tiny little singlet for Halloween plus the fact that I was slowly killing myself (literally) was all the motivation I need to kick some ass in the gym and watch what I eat. Well in the last week, I have been to the gym 6 times. (The one off day I played soccer). I generally lift for 45 minutes and do cardio for over 45 minutes.

I have been eating salad like it is going to run out as of tomorrow. I have been eating grilled chicken for dinner pretty much every night. I have cut out all beverages minus water (I know, I aut out Diet Pepsi. ME? Can you believe that? NO diet pepsi?) and drink about 100oz of water of day.

Last night was my first official weigh in and I weighed in at (Another drumroll please...) 270lbs. That is a total of 13lbs weight loss in one week. While there still is a long way to go, I am satisfied with my week one results and look forward to keeping this up for the next 4 weeks.

On a completely side note our American Gladiators team has picked up 3 more members in Dennis "Legs of a Roman Soldier" Aeling, Molly Healey, and Katie O'Connor. That is a total of 5 Gladiators. I have always been a proponent of making Halloween costumes as a group and I am quite stoked about this.

So I leave you with this link to fire you up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLfACqLDeTM