DailyBurn Weight Loss Challenge

This challenge came at just the right timing! i was just thinking that I needed some sort of motivation to lose weight. :)

I am looking forward to getting a fresh start with this new challenge. Everyone likes a prize at the end of the hard work and accomplishment.

This is going to be a lot of fun! I am excited to see all the good results. Be sure to submit your YouTube videos to officially join…

So we don’t start the weigh in thing until the 17th right? Just checking. We do our weigh in like the night before. Good.

Yeah, you can’t officially weigh in on the challenge page, but it would be OK to go ahead and shoot the video and get it up… I think we will get a lot more people (and motivation from others!) if we start up the videos before the 17th. Thoughts?

I’m so excited…I’m going to be making my video this weekend. I don’t have the resources to be fancy, so don’t expect Schindler’s List or X-Men. I have so many reasons to lose the weight, with declining health and an increasing inability to work and function…well it’s more of a neccessity than anything else. I’ve struggled with my weight for the last 21 years, since 6th grade. I’ve seen my weight climb to over 567 pounds, then I lost weight to get down to 430 to have the gastric bypass surgery, then a year later I was down to 350, followed the next year with being up to 460…now 5 years since my unsuccessful surgery I am at 420. I think that Gyminee/DailyBurn will be the “Perfect Storm” of information, tools, support and accountability to foster the success that has eluded me with various programs in the past. If only I had found it sooner, I would have saved all that money, time and physical scars!

modestoluke: Glad you are here! I look forward to seeing your progress!

Ok, so here I go. This is my first time ever making a video, I used the video feature on my camera, I hope it will be sufficient. I have been on a lot of diets in the 25 years I’ve been obese, and until recently I’ve only hurt myself. But now, my family is at stake, as well as my very life. The gastric bypass surgery didn’t work for me, neither did 15+ diets…but I must say that I have a really good feeling about this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Dxk9g-O9g

My starting weight is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6hkVpRQDlM

I have also started a blog at myfinaldiet.blogspot.com, which I think will help me stay accountable and well, cathartic, for what that is worth. My goal is that I will share on my blog, generally from my Iphone, rather than eat.

NOTE: My ineptness in making videos came through. The voiceover was cut over in the first version, I fixed it and re-uploaded it.

Sweet, I’m just starting P90X, which is a 90-day program!