Once I got back to my house, my wife quickly started removing any and all junk food she could find in the kitchen, and put me on a diet plan. About a month later I noticed I had only dropped 3 pounds since beginning the diet my wife put me on, however this didn't satisfy me. At this point I decided to do some digging on the web to try and find a better diet to help me speed up my weight loss, that's when it hit me, every tip, website, and YouTube video was trying to tell me the exact same thing, I have to get off my butt and start exercising! Exercising is nothing I was looking forward to since I was never a big fan of playing sports when I was in school, I didn't excel at sports and once I got out of high school I didn't do any kind of exercise because of this. Even though I knew I hated exercising, I had to make some positive changes, so I started going to my local gym and spoke with a fitness trainer who worked with me for 30 minutes each day to help me lose some serious weight, it wasn't strong exercise as I had only a short time ago had a heart attack but it did the job. After work each day I went to the gym and performed the exercises suggested to me by my trainer for the next 30 days. It was amazing to me when I realized I had dropped more than 15 pounds, and I was still on the same diet but exercising along with it. By the time my son was born I had lost just under 40 pounds, the doctors finally quit providing me with the pills and my exercise routine got a little more intense because my heart was now able to handle the extra pressure.
By the time my son had his first birthday, my fitness level had done a complete 360. Today, I do at least 3, hour long exercise sessions with my trainer a week, and I strongly believe my heart attack is the reason I am such a fitness junky now. Now I can play with my son longer since I have more energy, and I know I will be able to live a long and healthy life to see him grow up into adulthood. I'm of the strict diet now, I just eat a balanced diet as my BMI is now down to 26. But if you can learn anything from my story it is to eat a well balanced diet and exercise properly if you want to lose a good amount of weight in a reasonable amount of time.
