Muffin top, Marine Corps Ball and the hard routine.

I was going to wear my dress blues to a social mixer with potential employers that is held at my college every year. I put on my trousers and damn near shit myself. I had this nasty muffin top look. It was horrible. It is horrible. I did it to myself. With drill coming up this weekend and next weekend. I'll have plenty of time to organize myself and set up a program for weight loss and conditioning that will have me back in my dress blues by the time the Marine Corps ball comes around.

I read the article "The Hard Routine" on the CFJ the other day and learned a lot from it. It's time for me to start my hard routine and get where I should be. Not only does the my appearance in uniform depend on me sticking to it, but also my career. I want to get a commission in the Corps. I have wanted to for a long time. That's part of the reason I enlisted.
The planning starts today. The program starts Monday. (what with drill happening this weekend and all).
My ultimate goal is to be down to 180 by January 1st and 160 by March 15th. That damn SDI was right, I did get fat again, but I won't be for long.

I know for a fact I'm going to dedicate most of my time to Crossfit. I will Crossfit most of the time and when needed supplement it with either swimmimg/running or one of those p90x workouts.
I'm gonna Zone again. This time an extremely strict Zone diet. I've got the books. I understand the way it works, I just need to apply it now.
Another good motivational point for me to stick to it....I'm gonna get put on BCP....dammit. No meritorious promotion for me for 6 months.

New path, new life, old habits die hard.

I've been trying to get back into Crossfit after coming back from bootcamp and it's been hard. I know what I'm supposed to be doing but can't really get back into it yet. It doesn't help that I've sustained two injuries that slowed me down after trying to get back into it. I need to work harder at it. I have a little over 3 weeks before I get weighed in. I know I have some weight to lose. I'd hate to get put on BCP for 6 months. It might ruin my chances at getting into OCS for the upcoming summer. God I would hate that. I need to buckle down and get going. I've been doing pretty good on the chow. Granted it's not as great as I would like it to be, I've been controlling the amount of bad trash I've been eating. I've been able to maintain weight for that last couple of weeks so it's not THAT bad. If I throw in some more PT I know it will drop fast. I've been swimming twice a week at school and it helps some. I need to do more of it.

Having trouble trying to quit smoking. I stopped for a year, then 3 months. 3rd times a charm right? It's hard. I'm not going to lie. I have a weak will. I just need to buckle down and use all the discipline that was forced into my body over the past summer. I've been ignoring it. It's time to get it going again.

Semper Fi,
Chris