I got lucky.
So now you know a little bit about me. I’ve been using weight training and fitness exercises for years. But I was barely able to achieve what I wanted to achieve. I mean, I still couldn’t’ do a pull up to save my life. That sucked.
I had been even spending a lot of money seeing a personal trainer every other week. And the guy was great. But when you only see someone once a week, you are still facing 13 days in between where you need to come up with your own routine. And so I’d definitely work on stuff and use tons of strength training workouts at home. Here’s just a sample of what my wife and I have gone through:
Home workouts
Two Jillian programs including 30 day shred. Dozens of different yoga, kickboxing, cardio, and weight programs.
And so two lucky things happened to me. 1 my personal trainer quit personal training. They guy moved on to chiropractor school. So now it was even more important I get a new trainer or figure out how to motivate myself to get better at weight lifting and training on my own.
So I went to Amazon looking for yet another program. 
And found that p90x was getting a ton of great reviews. So I ordered that sucker up along with a few supplies. One band. And a pull up bar. I already had a single 35lb dumbbell at home, and a pair of dumbbells at 10lb. Not the fanciest setup of gym equipment but it’s worked out just fine. I didn’t even bother buying a yoga mat, even though there’s tons of yoga and ab exercises – a blanket on the carpet works just fine.
And that’s how it all got started just a couple months ago. That’s the crazy part too, I’ve only been doing this home workout for 2 months and I’m already banging out tons of pull ups and seeing a ton of progress physically. No, I’m not the type of person to show before and after shots of my progress (read: abs) But believe me, this has been terrific.
I’ll leave you with one more thing that was important for my start. I didn’t follow some strict diet program. I still drink and eat some great (terrible for you) food. I just do it less. I make sure I have at least a day in between drinking. I also make sure I halve all my portions in restaurants. It’s not that hard to eat half. You can always eat more of the meal later. But you’ll be surprised how easy it is to lose weight just practicing some control on the portions you eat.
I’ve also been making sure I snack on nuts and seeds and fruit more than chocolate and tortilla chips. I’ve been able to shed a ton of weight, without starving myself. And we still get to do things like grill awesome stuff outside and order pizza. I just eat it a little more cautiously.
I’ve got more stories about how this whole adventure’s been going, hope to see you back soon.
