You look great buddy.
I did do 21 pushups yesterday. Was shooting for 25, but my lazy ass fell down after 21. Oh well, I should be able to push up to sets of 25 today. I'm gonna follow your advice, split em up. 25 this morning, 25 tonight during some commercial break.

Keep it up!

Oh and kick ass on your running!!! That's great first run! I'm gonna have to kick into high gear...maybe even two a days to keep up

Hey good job on the push-ups I only did 15 a day when I first started out and worked my way up to 50 a day and thats when I started keeping track of how many I have done.

The Nike + really helps me with my running. It's alot easier to push myself to run more when I can hear and see exactly how far I have run, the time i'm averaging per mile, the calories i've burned, and the ability to push a button and it plays my "power song" to give me an extra boost when i'm getting tired.



I was going to run this morning but it has been pouring rain all day and today i've really been feeling my body going through withdrawl from the anxiety medicine. I get these little lightning flashes in my head every 10 minutes or so and my teeth feel funny. kinda weird withdrawl effects but now that there is no doubt in my mind that the medicine was a huge reason for my weight gain I can deal with a few days of going through withdrawl.

I was getting worried about the little lightning flashes I was having in my head so I did some research on it and was not happy with what i found out. Apparently Effexor XR is extremely hard to come off of and something like 85% of people who are taken off of it experience some sort of withdrawal that can last up to a year after coming off the drug! They call the little lightning flashes i'm having brain shivers. I'm pretty pissed my doctor failed to mention how hard it can be to get off the drug. So looks like i'm going to have to suck it up and get off effexor really slow.

I'm really worried this withdrawal from effexor is going to set me back reaching my weight loss goal. I took the effexor this morning because I couldn't stand the brain shivers and numbness I was feeling on the right side of my body. I felt good for the first several hours I was awake but the brain shivers are starting again and my right arm is starting to get numb and tingly. I'm completely exhausted and I think i'm going to lay down for a little while. I'm going to wait until the end of the week to see if I get any better, and if not i'll go see my doctor. If I had any idea of how i'd feel coming off this drug I'd never have agreed to start taking it. It's so frustrating to overcome my anxiety and everything thats happened these last few years and now it looks like i'm going to have to go through hell to get off this drug.

I'll be saying a prayer for you Tusk. Withdrawal of any kind sucks and I can only imagine. Stay strong and fight the good fight.

Hey guys i wanna join in on this challenge u guys got goin with one another, i mean idk but u guys obviously dont know each other from adam yet are supporting each other in this process like BROTHERS .....and weight loss is one thing that support is jus AWESOME so im hoping ull take me under your wing so to speak .........im 280 lbs and 6'0 tall ....yet im not like HUGE or nothing my jeans are a 38 waist anyways im goin to try and upload my pic lol its a stupid one i know but a buddy and i was being retarded when were were fishing and thas all we were catching....but anyways good luck guys uve bothe come far!!http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...y/wesley-1.jpg

How ya doing Tusk?

I'm feeling better today. The last few days have sucked pretty bad though. Brain shivers, cold sweats, numbness in the right side of my body, nausea, muscle spasms, and dizziness. I thought I was going to die I felt so sick. I only have a small headache today and I feel kinda weak. I'm going to try to walk around my neighborhood in a little bit just so I can get out of my house.

Finally got a link to my Nike + profile

Click to see my runs

Welcome aboard! I'm new here too! I wish you a succesful journey!

Glad your at least feeling better. Relax and have a great weekend.

Man what a suck fest last week was. In the end though I proved to myself what a badass I am. At anytime I could have caved and taken more anxiety medicine and the withdrawal would have been over. I didn't though, I toughed it out and lay in bed sweating feeling like my head was going to explode. I didn't get upset at myself for not working out because I knew i'd just pick up where i'd left off this week. My body is still going through withdrawal from the effexor I get really fatigued by the end of the day and I still get brain shivers from time to time but the worst is done with. It really is a miserable experience.

Anyways it's a new week and i'm ready to pickup where I left off. I haven't weighed myself yet but i'm pretty sure I gained a couple of pounds. I ate like crap and did nothing active all week. Yesterday I tried to go run but it started pouring rain 10 minutes in to my run so I only got to run 1.16miles in 14 minutes. This morning I was up early so I ran for 2.45 miles in 35 minutes. I would have run longer but I started to get shin splints so I cut it short and did some more stretching.

It's been really tough to workout this week. For some reason i'm just not as motivated. I've been eating pretty crappy also. I know part of it is my body still going through withdrawal from the medicine, but I feel like i've also lost a little bit of my drive. I'm going to sit down tonight and write down what motivates me again and see if anything has changed.

I've been dominating my runs the past 2 days. Yesterday I did 4.57 miles in 1 hour, and today I ran with my buddy and we did 3.81 miles in 58 minutes 31 seconds.

I really need to work on my diet. these past 2 weeks i've either been eating nothing at all or crappy food.

I wasn't going to workout yesterday but then at 2am I just got the urge to workout so I did 30 minutes on the eliptical and lifted weights. I weighed myself this morning and I lost another 2 lbs. which puts me at 210lbs.