The weight is killing me

I’ve been feeling like crap lately and after a large amount of reflection I have decided that a large part of it is that I don’t feel as healthy as I used to.  I like staying active and working out and eating right but this last year has found all of that kind of sliding off into obscurity.  So I have decided that what I’m going to start working on is to first and for most start training myself to wake up at 5:00AM from here on out.  The reason being that I can go running or go to the gym first thing in the morning and it has the largest benefit to weight loss and at the same time keeps me from getting side tracked with the things that have been sucking away my attention.  The second thing I’m going to be focusing on is to start adjusting the diet that my family is currently eating.  As of right now we eat a lot of different vegetables and we don’t eat much red meat at all so changing it to include more veggies and cutting out more of the less healthy and more fatty foods should be a good step toward a healthier family and me.  Also I’m working on finding different recipes and snack ideas to help add variety to our meals.

I’m also debating about re-upping my membership at PF since they are 24/5 and the crowd tends to be a lot less in the mornings.  I used to do this running/working out in the mornings for a while and it worked out well for me then so I’m hoping that it will do so now.  All in all I really want to plan and execute participating in one of these mud obstacle races, and if I can stick to this workout/diet plan it should pan out.