Hey guys. I just never seem to have enough time to…

Hey guys. I just never seem to have enough time to update my writing online. I don’t know where the time goes! On a good note I am kicking butt and taking names this challenge.

Yesterday I weighed my lightest weight in 6 months, slightly under 222. I am convinced that come the last week of this challenge I will be knocking on the door of 200 lbs. No stopping til 180 lbs! wooo.The eating has been bang on. The exercise due to work hours, schedules etc has not been perfect but its coming along. I am making due and improvising with neccessary. 3 weeks in to this challenge I am the most focused i have been in years, and aside from last weekend I have had no trip ups yet.I hope everyone is doing well, I haven’t even had time to read. I am working all weekend (12 hours Sat and Sunday) but I will try and catch up in my reading. Talk to you soon.

Shane

Hey guys. I just never seem to have enough time to…

Hey guys. I just never seem to have enough time to update my writing online. I don’t know where the time goes! On a good note I am kicking butt and taking names this challenge.

Yesterday I weighed my lightest weight in 6 months, slightly under 222. I am convinced that come the last week of this challenge I will be knocking on the door of 200 lbs. No stopping til 180 lbs! wooo.The eating has been bang on. The exercise due to work hours, schedules etc has not been perfect but its coming along. I am making due and improvising with neccessary. 3 weeks in to this challenge I am the most focused i have been in years, and aside from last weekend I have had no trip ups yet.I hope everyone is doing well, I haven’t even had time to read. I am working all weekend (12 hours Sat and Sunday) but I will try and catch up in my reading. Talk to you soon.

Shane

Hey guys….I bet you some of you are thinking, Sh…

Hey guys….I bet you some of you are thinking, Shane’s fallen off the wagon again, he hasn’t posted in a few days! Well I am very happy to let you know I have not let you down and I am pounding away! The weight is flying off me and I am down to 225.1.

I bought myself a tanita like bathroom scale and doing like the LL recomends and weighing daily. I weigh myself first thing in the morning. Now even when the scale is going up, daily weighing never really affected me as it does some, i just note the number good or bad and move on. I started January first at 239 pounds and I started the Leanness Lifestlye at 230 12 days ago, so I am very happy with how things are going, and I won’t stop until I am down in the 185 range, even if it takes me a full year to get there!

Like Chuck, work remains crazy. Friday was my first tough day of this challenge. It was my 20th straight day at work. I had the weekend off from work only because my wife was away with my youngest girl and I had to stay with oldest. Yesterday I returned to work, and worked a 13 hour day, and will be working 4 more of them this week, and then be working right thru the weekend and all thru next week. Friday my body or my mind, or SOMETHING, was screaming at me for a beer but I didn’t have any and stayed on plan. I am being sure to get as much exercise in as I can, which is equating to 3 or 4 weight workouts a week, and daily cardio in the form of walking as much as I can (close to two hours broken up over walks before work, on my breaks, and walking my dog at night) as well as the exercise bike, eliptical etc. I have written down every morcel of food that has entered my mouth over the past two weeks on paper, but in my only area of “slacking” this challenge I have not entered it online to track calories either at fitday or something, or the Leanness Lifestyle site. After 13 hours a day on a computer at work, lets just say at night, my body says….blah. haha. But rest asured I am eating great. My mission this week is to start tracking it on the computer.

Anyway back to work. Hope everyone is doing great, I will do my best to drop in about 4 times a week.

Hey guys….I bet you some of you are thinking, Sh…

Hey guys….I bet you some of you are thinking, Shane’s fallen off the wagon again, he hasn’t posted in a few days! Well I am very happy to let you know I have not let you down and I am pounding away! The weight is flying off me and I am down to 225.1.

I bought myself a tanita like bathroom scale and doing like the LL recomends and weighing daily. I weigh myself first thing in the morning. Now even when the scale is going up, daily weighing never really affected me as it does some, i just note the number good or bad and move on. I started January first at 239 pounds and I started the Leanness Lifestlye at 230 12 days ago, so I am very happy with how things are going, and I won’t stop until I am down in the 185 range, even if it takes me a full year to get there!

Like Chuck, work remains crazy. Friday was my first tough day of this challenge. It was my 20th straight day at work. I had the weekend off from work only because my wife was away with my youngest girl and I had to stay with oldest. Yesterday I returned to work, and worked a 13 hour day, and will be working 4 more of them this week, and then be working right thru the weekend and all thru next week. Friday my body or my mind, or SOMETHING, was screaming at me for a beer but I didn’t have any and stayed on plan. I am being sure to get as much exercise in as I can, which is equating to 3 or 4 weight workouts a week, and daily cardio in the form of walking as much as I can (close to two hours broken up over walks before work, on my breaks, and walking my dog at night) as well as the exercise bike, eliptical etc. I have written down every morcel of food that has entered my mouth over the past two weeks on paper, but in my only area of “slacking” this challenge I have not entered it online to track calories either at fitday or something, or the Leanness Lifestyle site. After 13 hours a day on a computer at work, lets just say at night, my body says….blah. haha. But rest asured I am eating great. My mission this week is to start tracking it on the computer.

Anyway back to work. Hope everyone is doing great, I will do my best to drop in about 4 times a week.

Wednesday

Well another good day in the books yesterday. Ate on plan and made it to the gym for cardio and back. I left the house at 7:30 am yesterday and didn’t get home til 10 pm after working til 8:15pm and then going to gym. But I am going to have to deal with the long hours and still get to the gym and get in clean eats regardless.

Monday I did not lift but I did get in lots of walking and some exercise bike. I am also working on the little stuff, like taking the stairs to my 5th floor office instead of the elevator, getting back to eating at my desk so I can walk around outside on my two 15 minute breaks as well as my 30 minute lunch. I am encouraged by my actions over the past week, and I have to keep going. One on plan day at a time, which will lead to an on plan week, which will lead to an on plan month, until its no longer WORK, and its how I live.

Tuesdays weights

15 min treadmill warm up 2.0-3.0 incline at 4.0 mph
fixed pulldowns 10*70/12*90/12*115/10*115
hammerstrength f pulldown 10*50/5*70-5*60
cable rows 10*110/10*110/10*110
prone row 10*75/9*75

Get it Done

Hey guys….yesterday was a new start for me. You’ve watched me struggle for what 5 or so years now? I have been a part of this site since Dec 2000 I think now. 2000 or 2001 not sure. I have had a few successes but alot of false starts, alot of talk I didn’t back up, some injuries, some tragedies, and everything in between. All I can promise, is for the next 12 weeks, I am going to bust my butt to put some habits in place that I can follow to make healthy living the norm for me.

I am looking to have my best challenge since I have been on this site. I am looking to have 12 weeks of hard, focused effort. 12 weeks of no excuses just getting it done. Working 20 hours of Overtime a week? Get it done. Come down with a cold ? Get it done. Back sore ? Work around it, but get it done. In vegas for a week during week 8 ? Have fun…eat and drink and do whatever, but get it done.

I want you guys to hold me to this. ( shane @ shaneleighton dot net) I know you have sat back and watched me basically sleepwalk thru the past 6 years. I was at the gym last night for Chest, bis, abs and calves, and quite frankly was disgusted at how weak I am. I was strong 16 years ago then I am right now. But I will get all my strength back and then some. I will finally shed this extra 40 pounds I have been carrying around and I will be able to live the more active life I led for the first 25-28 years of my life. It may take me a year, but I am going to get my active life (hockey, golf, hiking, weights, biking with my kids etc) back.

12 week Goals

1. Sub 200 lbs (currently 229)
2. sub 18 percent body fat (currently 30)
3. Drop 8 inches from waist (currently 45).
4. 84000 measured pedometer steps (10000 avg a day)
5. be able to jog 2 km without stopping. (2 min without stopping right now)

Sunday’s workout
Incl machine 10*45/10*45/10*45
hammer incl 10*50/10*5/10*5
pek dek 10*75/10*90/9*90

seat alt d curl 10*25/10*25/8*25-7*25
preachers 10*55/9*70/9*70

recumb bike 20 min

ab bench 10*10/10*10/10*10
ab ball crunch 10/10/10

No Excuses

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Hey guys…posting quickly from work. Am working about 20 hours ot this weekend, and also need to work about 15 this coming week. No big deal though, I am going to get in all my meals, drink all my water, and hit the gym everyday for cardio and/or weights.

I will have my goals and measurements posted for this 12 weeks on Leanness Lifestyle by Monday night. I may or may not post before pics. They are going to be nasty. I will take em, and i’ll see whether i post them or not…

I have had the best 4 days of eating I have had in MONTHS this last 4 days. I am very confident now that i have finally made a decision and chose LL, after debating about BFL, abs diet etc. I was using the indecisiveness (sic?) to just keep floundering. I am down 11 lbs since NYE but I still have 50 I want to lose (to get down to 175-180). For the first time in years, I believe I will get there, slowly but surely.

Decision

Well I am so very excited to have made a firm decision and I am bound to stick to The Leanness Lifestyle for an absolute MINIMUM of 12 weeks. I am going to pay for the access to the members only site, pick up the book (if there is enough changes in it to merit buying since I bought an earlier edition few years ago) and i am going to do this.

The reason I am starting Sunday and not tommorrow or today is I am giving myself a couple days to get around the site, familiarize myself with the tools, and to really work on my goals, my WHY, which I talked about a few days ago, and what I am prepared to sacrifice in the short term for the long term benifit of my health and well being.

I have made one decision already and I am having my buddies hold me to it. I am not having one ounce of alcohol until minimally March 16th. This is the date of my next months poker tourney (I run a league once a month). Have a few drinks (are a few +10) is something I have really enjoyed and looked forward to over the last year or so during my poker games, but I am going to give myself a break, and for a minimum of one month, not have a drink. None of my friends think I can do it, but I will show them!

I will stay on plan for the full 12 initial week challenge, except for my vegas trip where I will loosen the reigns and relax. I will still do my best to eat/drink within reason, but my for my first trip ever, my first time in vegas, I will not restrict myself. I will make use of the inhouse pool and fitness room, and will likely spend 6 hours a day walking around site seeing, so I don’t think this week will cause too much damage if i keep it within reason.

I will take before/after measurements and pics and post them. I have been dreading this but this is all about accountability and I plan to really give this the best effort I have in years. I will once and for all live a healthy life, make sound decisions, and when I do have the slips I will not get down on myself. I will just pick myself up, dust myself off, and get back to work.

More to come.

Leanness Lifestyle

Hey guys….hate to start a new blog, but I am going to because I have chosen to join Leanness Lifestyle as well as Jason, and as well As our former Blog member Shaun. Seems to me the Sarge was doing Leanness Lifestyle as well was he not. Jeremy Likeness swears by this program, so I took the plunge, paid the monthly fees and I am starting Feb 18th, an official 12 week challenge, complete with goals, pics etc.

I am going to do my best to be active on the LL community but I will not forget the blog! I am going to follow everything “The Coach” says and put myself entirely in his hands for a minimum of 12 weeks. The only week I will not touch base on the LL site or this site will be the week I am in Vegas.

I am not familiar with all the tools the site has, so i will be spending time getting used to them, but I PROMISE, in the days, weeks and months to come, my presence here will be more involved!

More to come!

Tuesday

Posted at Bodyblog

So Sunday, Dec 31st, was my 34th bday. I get pretty introspective on my birthday, maybe doubly so since it is my bday and New Years Eve! So like millions of others at this time of year I look back on the year that’s past and forward to the year ahead.

This past year I started in bad shape, weighing 230 with 30 percent bodyfat and I ended it in even worse shape, ending at an alltime high of 236. Disgraceful. There are no valid excuses or reasons. As usual, I worked alot (over 450 hours overtime, compared to 600 the year before) , I had back problems (3 months chiropractor), I had new hobbies that I chose to spend my time on, and other various things. What it really comes down to is I made more wrong unhealthy decisions throughout the year than I did healthy correct decisions.

I am going to Las Vegas for my wife and I’s, anniversary the week of April 11th. So between now and then I don’t have a whole lot of time but I have long enough to make some progress. I’m going to do all I can to make this first challenge the best I have had yet, by making sound decisions everyday, eating the right foods in the right amounts, and lots of exercise.

I am happy to be back at Bodyblog, and I hope with the New Year, some of the old folks will come back, as well as some new people. I miss the old community and always considered this my online home. As I said the other day, I am down to my laptop for computer access and until dell sends me a new power supply. I am on my laptop right now with a borrowed power supply, but my buddy is picking up his power supply on his way to work this am. I am on vacation this week, so I will try and get over to my mothers to post each day.

Let’s get the New Year started right!