Pumping Iron…Almost

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I bought some hand weights a while back and they’ve been sitting on the floor near my desk ever since. Today I decided to put them to use. After extensive research (a YouTube search), I picked Easy Arm Workouts for Beginners, by HASfit. It’s a 12-minute workout. I made it 9 minutes.

So now I’ve got two fitness goals — 20,000 steps in a day, and making it to the end of this beginners’ workout. Other HASfit videos include 30, 40, and 45 minute arm workouts. I’m aiming for 12 whole minutes. Did I mention that there’s getting up and down off the floor? Oh yeah, this is some hardcore weight training here. I may have to buy some stretchy black gym wear or something.

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I'm a fat, middle-aged white guy who's trying to lose weight. A LOT of weight. My goal is to lose 200 pounds. I was born in 1968 and I grew up in East and Southeast Texas After graduating high school in 1987, I went to the University of Houston and then Lamar University. In 1994 I shoved my life into a suitcase and moved to Australia. I was married in 1998, and my wife andI have 3 children (all boys) aged 19, 16, and 10. We lived in Canberra (the national capital) from 2001 until 2016, and now we're in Brisbane, Queensland. I'm a librarian by profession but currently living as a stay-at-home dad and a Gentleman of Leisure (I sometimes describe myself as temporarily retired). I've been overweight since puberty, and gradually went from 200lbs in 1988 to 250lbs by 1998, and then to 300 a decade later, and over 400 lbs by 2011, when I first joined Weight Watchers. I lost about 100 lbs in 6 months, then quit, and then my weight bounced around between 330 and 375 for several years after that. I joined Weight Watchers again in May 2017, and discovered that I was back up over 400. So now I'm trying as hard as I can to lose over 200 pounds and get back under 200, and preferably to 186 lbs, my weight when I graduated high school.

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