I am not referring to the community in which I live it, though it is a great thing to help! I am referring to the community of all my techie friends such as the VMware community, bloggers, etc. I realize that I have been reading things in the community but not contributing back. I hope to start changing that. It may not result in more blog posts here, but it will involve responding to help in forums, being more proactive in my local VMUG, all those things that are important to helping the community grow. I have met so many people via Twitter that have helped me over the years and I need to give back. With that said, I hope to see you out there and I hope that any advice or help I can give is helpful. I will see some of you at EMC World in late May! Until then, keep blogging, posting and being an advocate for all of us!
Shawn Cannon
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It has been a few weeks since I first told you that I wanted to lose weight and get healthy. If you remember my starting weight was 276 lbs. As of yesterday, I am down to 271 lbs! I am making progress! The biggest difference so far is that I have some pants that were too tight that now fit again! Granted they are still a 42 waist size, but they did not fit like my other 42′s did. 2 pair of my shorts practically fall off if I don’t wear a belt with them! I had one friend of mine say (I knew he was kidding around) that I only look 8 months pregnant instead of 9! 
Yes, the stomach is starting to come down so I excited about it! Here is my weekly regimen:
For breakfast I usually have a egg prepared in the Microwave on a 100 calorie English muffin. It is YUMMY! For lunch, I just make sure I eat a low calorie entree, avoiding fried, fatty foods. For dinner, I tend to eat the most calories as I am usually back from the gym and need that energy back!
Here is the current gym routine:
Monday – Weights (Pulls or Pushed depending on where I left off last week) and 30 min of Cardio before or after.
Tuesday – 1 hour of Cardio for my lunch break, eating Lunch when I get back to my home office.
Wednesday – Weights / Cardio (See Monday)
Thursday – Cardio (See Wednesday)
Friday – Weights / Cardio (See Monday)
Sat and Sun are generally the only days off, but I will go in IF I miss any of the above days. I want to work up to jogging but right now when I try to jog my heart rate goes through the roof so I gotta take it easy until I shed some more weight.
So what are my goals here? Wwll my first goal will be to get down to 250. That is not the ending goal by any means. I want to set short term realistic goals, meet those and set another one. I also have a goal to start walking in some run/walk events. I am hoping to participate in the Fallen Officer 5K Walk/Run locally where I live on Saturday May 5, 2012. I plan to WALK this as I dont think I can push it to the jog yet. The proceeds from this event will be used to assist the families of Fallen Officers in Georgia which is something I strongly support. These men and ladies put their lives on the line every day and we should support their families. Now I just have to come up with the $30 entry fee! I am sure that will come up somewhere before the event.
Anywho, that is enough for this go round! I hope everyone has a GREAT day!!
Some of you may already know this, but for those who don’t, I want to share what I am doing to improve ME. Support is key in an endeavor such as this which is why I am sharing.
Since I got married, I have pretty much never regularly exercised and pretty much just ate whatever I wanted. I shot up to at times 289 lbs! After watching my Dad pass away for the awful effects of emphysema, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc, it finally hit me. I don’t want to develop high blood pressure and diabetes. I want to get this weight under control and lose it! So last week with the help of a church buddy of mine, I joined the American Body Works gym here in Hiram. My church buddy works out there and he has been through the weight stuff in his life and changed his lifestyle and got his body back! THAT is what I need and want to do. I plan to go 5 days a week, M-F, to the gym, most of the time with him so he can “tutor” me, if you will. MY ultimate goal would be to get to 200 lbs. I weighed in yesterday for my starting weight. 276 lbs. I have a long way to go but I want to make sure I lose it SLOW so it will stay off. In addition to my gym activities, I am boycotting sodas and focusing on water instead. I will indulge in Milk or OJ now and then just to stay sane. No more fried foods. Grilled or baked for me going forward.
Will this be easy? Probably not at first, but I am determined to get healthy and fit. Maybe by the time a lot of you see me at VMworld 2012 in San Fran, I will look much different. That is a good goal! I will post regularly on my progress. Please comment if you support me in this. Peer support helps SO much! Thanks! I hope all of you have a great week!
While I was sitting here watching the Cotton Bowl, I decided to give my site a facelift. Nothing too fancy since I just searched for some free WordPress themes. It is more to my liking and my style being a computer nerd. I hope to post some things soon regarding my progress to taking my VCP5 exam at the end of this month. I am using Scott Lowe’s book “Mastering VMware vSphere 5“, some TrainSignal videos and sample exams from all the VCP5 bloggers I can find. I also heard they are trying to do some BrownBag cram sessions as well so I hope to be part of those as well. Should be an interesting exam! I have heard it is harder that the VCP4 exam was and that one was pretty stout. Anywho, I will be immersing myself starting this weekend! Wish me luck! I promise I will come up for air!