I stared my weight loss on December 30, 2010. I lost around 50lbs and a year later, I gained half of it back. Now, with the added motivation of the bodybuilding.com challenge and the gold's gym challenge, I am back on board. I hate that I became a statistic and vow to never go down that road again. This time, I plan on establishing the life change permanently and would like to put more focus on the bodybuilding part.

I love lifting weights and I have a love/hate relationship with cardio. I'm still learning, as far as how much weight to use... which machines are best but I'm enjoying it.