Fast forward only one year and you’ll find me in the last phase of my Officer’s training in Aberdeen, MD. I’m still around 12% body fat, but in my quest to score 315+ in the APFT my weight has dropped to a steady 190. I couldn’t tell you when or why I thought of it, but eventually I realized two more things that would change my body drastically in the coming months. First, why the fuck wasn’t I getting enough rest at night? I was cruising the Internet for way too long every night because I was bored out of my mind or flipping through channels because I was bored out of my mind. Secondly, I realized that eating more vegetables would drastically cut down my grocery bill and probably could do some good for my body. (more…)

Back then I was in good shape. I mean c’mon, I had to do 90 minutes of Army PT 3 or 4 times a week depending on the time of year, plus 3 or 4 days of lifting and running with the football team depending on the time of year, and 4 to 6 days of practice depending on the time of year. Spring of my Junior year ended up being the busiest with Army PT from 0600-0730 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, random Army classes from 0500-0730 on Thursdays, Squad tactics training from 0800-1400ish on Saturdays, football workouts for 2+ hours on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays OR Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays with practice from 0600-0900 on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

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Check out this part of a facebook conversation I had with my buddy yesterday* over this whole “change your profile picture to fight child abuse” bullshit…

*Yes, that was actually a back in October-ish, but I suck and forgot to click “publish”. My bad.
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It’s that time of year again. Everywhere you look online you’re seeing tons “A Look Back on 2010″ articles and even more “My 2011 New Years Resolutions”. Well I’m an un-original and uncreative bastard so here is part one, my look back on 2010.

You’re probably saying to yourself “Does this dude know it’s already 2011??” And the answer yes, yes I do know. I also don’t really care since most other aspects of my life are premature (self-deprecating humor…ZING!) (more…)

So all morning* I’ve been studying for my NY Life and Health Insurance exam. Why you ask? Well it certainly was not part of my pleasure reading list. In the excitement of getting offered a “real” job coupled with my blatant over-confidence that I could master any task, I got into business of selling financial services. Long story short, I’ve been trying to justify the incredible desire to walk away from this job.  Today, the angels descended at the holiest of sites during the most beautiful of beautiful acts…I was taking a crap. Here’s what I was in the middle of reading when, in the words of Ace of Base, I saw the sign.

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