Last year, I promised Rachel that I'd give her a husband with rock hard abs for Christmas. It gave me a year to deliver on the promise and I started to work. Well, not immediately...since I had no idea how to get there and no proven method to do it. I can't even remember how I learned about T25, the Shaun T workout videos that were now only 25 minutes a day instead of the 90 minutes from P90X.
I work a lot. In your head, think about what working a lot is...and then double it. Rachel and I are educated. I mean really educated. I mean more student loans than you think is possible for someone who didn't go to Law School or Medical School educated. And since we obtained all this glorious education, we've been finding ways to pay for the education. The longer we've been out of school, the more the delayed, deferred, and graduated payments have kicked in. So, I am still doing every business venture I've done up to this point AND I have a full time job in the Bakken building a 2nd parts business for what we hope will be the largest non-branded Dealership for On-Highway Trucks and then later Heavy Equipment. Out of a possible 168 hours in a week, I only sleep 36 of those (instead of the usual 56 a person would sleep to get a "full night's sleep"). So, in a given week I work about 120-125 hours a week. Without T25, my goal simply wouldn't be possible. I just don't have the time to do anything more right now.
My Mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I directed her to my friend who is a BeachBody Coach, Tom Wolfe. We have all known Tom ever since the days when I racked up my 1st real batch of student loans with my Master's of Divinity at the Claremont School of Theology. The Wolfe's own the market (Wolfe's Market) across the street from the school and went to Church with us. We have eaten dinner at their house numerous times, hung out, played racquetball, been in Church callings together, stored my motorcycle/scooter in his boat storage unit over the last 10 years. Honestly, almost as long as I have been married to Rachel we have known the Wolfes. My Mom got with Tom and ordered me up T25, and it was there, under the tree, for Christmas.
The box sat idle for some time. It was Christmas, I was working my 120 hours, we were trying to get the print copy of Rachel's book (Colorworld) out and published. Her second book (Teleworld) still had to be finished and I was doing marketing for her books at night: asking for review requests, choosing where to advertise, contacting family and friends to read and review. We had a TON going on with Rachel's writing career finally making it to light after working for so many years without anyone really even knowing she was a writer.
In January, things kind of blew up at my old work. I had helped a friend build exactly what I said above and we were firing on all cylinders. It was amazing and we had a great thing going. Then, out of the blue, it got weird. I really don't know what happened...probably because I never really asked. I got some end of the year numbers and I sent back all my concerns: hours for this job or that were billed to parts instead of service, making it look worse than it was. All of the labor for our mobile hose unit should have gone to parts instead of service. Jobs my guys did that we got billed wages but didn't get credited for the revenue...blah, blah blah. Before you knew it, I fired myself. Not my favorite day of my life.
I was sick at the time, so I took a few days to sleep in and not work over 80 hours that week. I was nervous...probably a little scared if I'm honest with myself. Once I got over the sickness, I opened the T25 box out and started with the 1st video. I was almost really dumb. I seriously thought that because I thought I was in decent shape, I should probably just skip Alpha and go straight to Beta so that I can get rock hard abs faster. That would have ranked up there in my Top 10 Failures in life had I gone that route, by the way. Lucky, for me, I started on day 1 with video 1.
I haven't done T25 every single day. I have NEVER done the 2 workouts on Friday it calls for. Plenty of weeks I have worked out 6 days a week instead of 5 though. I have no idea if that makes up for it. Out of the 3 months I've done T25, I've only done the stretch video 3 or 4 times.
But, DANG! It didn't even occur to me I'd lose weight. I honestly have only had 1 expectation from the beginning: I will have rock hard abs for my wife for Christmas Day, 2014.
I've talked with Tom on and off regarding how I get there. I am done with Alpha and Beta and I don't have rock hard abs, so I wanted to make sure I was on track with only 8 months left to get my abs, so I got on the phone with Tom. He told me I'm going to HAVE to do the 5 meals a day and then space my water out. I drink water 30 minutes before I eat and wait until an hour after I eat to drink water again. I drink 100-125 oz of water a day to keep things flowing.
I look amazing. The other day Rachel sent me a text message to let me know she thought my hard work was paying off and that I looked great. :-)
Last night, after we did a T25 Beta workout together, we sat down to have our 12th Wedding Anniversary Dinner together and she asked me if I could eat with my shirt off when I have rock hard abs. I love it. I identified something I couldn't offer Rachel and got determined...hell bent, on fixing it. I'm close, and now it's starting to occur to Rachel that I might just get there.
I sure hope I do. That woman, my wife, is the most amazing woman in the world. And I promised her rock hard abs on her husband for Christmas. And she's going to get them.
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