No BS people, I’ve lost over 30 pounds in the past month and a half. Â I’ll admit it, I’ve even stopped Cross Fit for the time being. Â In fact I stopped it over a month ago when I got hit with a pretty big reality.
My body was too heavy to carry the weight I was lugging around while doing those intense exercises. Â Don’t get me wrong, I was doing them and I was changing my body but my joints started hurting. Â No matter how you slice it, that extra weight was not good on my bones. So I had to change something. And change something I did.
I’m in the midst of a confidential pilot health program (no I’m not making it up) I had to sign a confidentiality agreement before I could participate in the pilot program of this thing. Â I CAN tell you that it’s focused on men 40-80 who have weight to lose. Â I can also tell you that I haven’t exercised since being on this program and I went from 226lbs to 192.8 (as of the morning that I’m writing this blog). That’s a total of 33.2 pounds.
It’s funny, I was at the Drama League Gala for Neil Patrick Harris on Monday night (which was an incredible event by the way). Â Here’s a photo from the press line courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com:
That’s Cady Huffman, Eddie Korbich, Paige Price, Me and Marc Kudsich. Â Anyway, during the rehearsals in the afternoon one of my colleagues was rehearsing and afterward i went up to her to give her a “hello” and she did a double take. Â We hadn’t seen each other since ANNA NICOLE and she turned to me and said. Â “Oh my god I almost didn’t recognize you.” Â She couldn’t believe how much my body had changed. Â I looked younger and I was certainly a lot thinner.
I’m a tall guy so carrying extra weight kinda gets hidden a bit, but there is a massive difference in how I am now. Â This is more weight than I lost for A TALE Â OF TWO CITIES (I dropped 26lbs for that show) and I was doing at least 45 minutes of cardio everyday! Â With this program…I’ve not exercised at all.
Am I going to exercise? Â You bet your buns I am. Â Now that I’ve dropped the weight and move into the next phase of this program…I’m going back to cardio and then onto some strengthening programs. Â See it goes back to what I said in the beginning. Â I needed to drop the extra pounds so that my body could actually respond TO the exercises I will be doing.
It’s ironic but when you look around at a typical gym there are a ton of guys who are, quite frankly, not losing a bit of weight even though they work their asses off in the gym.