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cyrex
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I'm back! I doubt many of you will remember me, but I was once fairly active on these boards.
In short the reason I haven't been around lately had been a mix of being far too busy and then eventually pure embarassment.
I was right on track with where I wanted to be fitness and diet-wise life was good and then
dun dun dun
"It happened"
I was hit by a frieght train of stress so-to-speak.
Sometime around mid April I was given a pretty intense project. I started having to work 10-12 hour days frequently. Eventually I was working 90+ hours per week with no time at all to workout. With sleep, drive time to office and working I really had no time to myself at all.
Eventually my workload lightened back down to 45-55 hours/week, but around this time I was informed by my boss, that a friend of mine from Canada that had worked for us the previous summer doing some contract work would be coming down to the states for an on-site internship. I was asked to let him stay with me. Stuck between a rock and a hard-place I discussed it with my wife who was NOT happy about the idea, but gave in to it and we let him stay with us for 3 months.
The experience of him living with us was HORRIBLE. He is really a nice guy but has no social skills whatsoever so he would rarely speak in person. I believe I spoke to him more via AIM when he was in his room and I was at my computer than we did in person. He would sleep in the car ride to the office and would try so hard to stay out of the way that it became annoying. His birthday happened to be during the time he was staying with us so I baked him a cake (suggested by my wife) and although he seemed to like it, he never once said thank you. The whole time he was here he never said thank you for anything. Anyways, to make a long story short, my wife absolutely hated him, I was not happy with the way he was acting, and between me being unhappy with him staying with us, and my wife being unhappy and taking it out on me I had a lot of stress caused by the entire situation.
My wife absolutely refused to let me leave her alone in the house with him, so I wasn't really able to get back into working out. I had regained some bad habbits of eating fast food or going out to eat and with it being so uncomfortable to be around 'him' my wife and I started going out to eat quite a bit just to get out of the house and away from him.
Throughout the 3 months he was with us my work load fluctuated and hopped back up to 70-90 hours per week a few times with some intense projects. During this time I started noticing some physical symptoms of stress. I had hemorhoid problems, black stool (which the doctor diagnosed as blood from an ulcer), insomnia, and other headaches.
Approximately 2 weeks before his last day here my boss came to me with a project that was basically something new that I had never done, but was the type of thing he had been having the intern do the whole time he had been here. To make a very long story short. I was given a 100 hour project to do in 1 week by myself with little to no help on something I had never done before and really should never have to do at my level. I ended up working 22 hours straight one day to meat a milestone deadline and crashed hard. I nearly had a nervous breakdown and 2 days later turned in my letter of resignation.
I ended up kicking the intern out to go stay with one of the other employees that lived 2 blocks from the office for the last 2 weeks he was here.
Also, toss into the mix that I started paying World of Warcraft while he was here as a way to relieve stress. It worked VERY well for relieving stress, but I got addicted to it in a very bad way. If I wasn't working, driving or sleeping I was playing WoW and probably eating at my desk.
Where am I now?
I quit playing WoW about 2 or 3 weeks ago and boy was that tough. I went through some withdrawls from it and a mild bout of depression. Unfortunately I have an addictive personality. I can't get into something and half ass it. I go ALL OUT at whatever I do.
Luckily with my experience and ability as a web developer I received 70+ emails and phone calls once my resume hit the job market. Of the 10 interviews I attended I was offered a position at 8 of the 10. I assume I was not offered a position at the other 2 because my salary requirements were too high for their budget
, but apparently the job market for good web developers in the south is HOT right now.
I took a job at a corporation that is one of the best up-and-coming franchise corporations in the world and have been loving it ever since. I have made sure that I will never be taken advantage of as I was in my previous job here.
I am about 310 lbs and haven't worked out since Late April. I'd guess my bodyfat is near 30% now. I've been eating fast food and junk so I've gotten fat again.
So what am I going to do about it?
Well I've started to plan out my food intake again and will be heading out tonight to go checkout a different gym since the last one I was going to, my membership expired. I'm going to plan out a good cardio routine so I can shed this fricken fat off ASAP.
I've already started preparing some food for lunches and plannig meals this week, but I don't have a long-term plan or specific goals set yet. That is what I'll be doing these next few days.
In short the reason I haven't been around lately had been a mix of being far too busy and then eventually pure embarassment.
I was right on track with where I wanted to be fitness and diet-wise life was good and then
dun dun dun
"It happened"
I was hit by a frieght train of stress so-to-speak.
Sometime around mid April I was given a pretty intense project. I started having to work 10-12 hour days frequently. Eventually I was working 90+ hours per week with no time at all to workout. With sleep, drive time to office and working I really had no time to myself at all.
Eventually my workload lightened back down to 45-55 hours/week, but around this time I was informed by my boss, that a friend of mine from Canada that had worked for us the previous summer doing some contract work would be coming down to the states for an on-site internship. I was asked to let him stay with me. Stuck between a rock and a hard-place I discussed it with my wife who was NOT happy about the idea, but gave in to it and we let him stay with us for 3 months.
The experience of him living with us was HORRIBLE. He is really a nice guy but has no social skills whatsoever so he would rarely speak in person. I believe I spoke to him more via AIM when he was in his room and I was at my computer than we did in person. He would sleep in the car ride to the office and would try so hard to stay out of the way that it became annoying. His birthday happened to be during the time he was staying with us so I baked him a cake (suggested by my wife) and although he seemed to like it, he never once said thank you. The whole time he was here he never said thank you for anything. Anyways, to make a long story short, my wife absolutely hated him, I was not happy with the way he was acting, and between me being unhappy with him staying with us, and my wife being unhappy and taking it out on me I had a lot of stress caused by the entire situation.
My wife absolutely refused to let me leave her alone in the house with him, so I wasn't really able to get back into working out. I had regained some bad habbits of eating fast food or going out to eat and with it being so uncomfortable to be around 'him' my wife and I started going out to eat quite a bit just to get out of the house and away from him.
Throughout the 3 months he was with us my work load fluctuated and hopped back up to 70-90 hours per week a few times with some intense projects. During this time I started noticing some physical symptoms of stress. I had hemorhoid problems, black stool (which the doctor diagnosed as blood from an ulcer), insomnia, and other headaches.
Approximately 2 weeks before his last day here my boss came to me with a project that was basically something new that I had never done, but was the type of thing he had been having the intern do the whole time he had been here. To make a very long story short. I was given a 100 hour project to do in 1 week by myself with little to no help on something I had never done before and really should never have to do at my level. I ended up working 22 hours straight one day to meat a milestone deadline and crashed hard. I nearly had a nervous breakdown and 2 days later turned in my letter of resignation.
I ended up kicking the intern out to go stay with one of the other employees that lived 2 blocks from the office for the last 2 weeks he was here.
Also, toss into the mix that I started paying World of Warcraft while he was here as a way to relieve stress. It worked VERY well for relieving stress, but I got addicted to it in a very bad way. If I wasn't working, driving or sleeping I was playing WoW and probably eating at my desk.
Where am I now?
I quit playing WoW about 2 or 3 weeks ago and boy was that tough. I went through some withdrawls from it and a mild bout of depression. Unfortunately I have an addictive personality. I can't get into something and half ass it. I go ALL OUT at whatever I do.
Luckily with my experience and ability as a web developer I received 70+ emails and phone calls once my resume hit the job market. Of the 10 interviews I attended I was offered a position at 8 of the 10. I assume I was not offered a position at the other 2 because my salary requirements were too high for their budget
, but apparently the job market for good web developers in the south is HOT right now.I took a job at a corporation that is one of the best up-and-coming franchise corporations in the world and have been loving it ever since. I have made sure that I will never be taken advantage of as I was in my previous job here.
I am about 310 lbs and haven't worked out since Late April. I'd guess my bodyfat is near 30% now. I've been eating fast food and junk so I've gotten fat again.
So what am I going to do about it?
Well I've started to plan out my food intake again and will be heading out tonight to go checkout a different gym since the last one I was going to, my membership expired. I'm going to plan out a good cardio routine so I can shed this fricken fat off ASAP.
I've already started preparing some food for lunches and plannig meals this week, but I don't have a long-term plan or specific goals set yet. That is what I'll be doing these next few days.
