No, not that kind of change.  I’m not interested in the economy or our country.  No, I’m far more interested in something bigger than those.  Me.

The fitness regimen has been good.  I’ve lost 8 pounds since I slightly elevated my dedication to my physical well being.  And, the bonus is that some of my pants actually have some extra room in the waist.    So now, if I need to pull up my socks, I can just reach my hand down through my pants to do it.  How cool is that?!

My focus thus far has been on cardiovascular workouts and eating healthier.  The cardio workouts did a great job of helping me burn the calories and drop the weight.  The eating healthier part was pretty easy because eating worse wasn’t really possible.  But I’ve become resolved in the fact that eating healthy, in the true sense of the term, is not going to happen for me.  I’m willing to make some changes, but there comes a point where I say “You know what….yes, I do want fries with that!”  And I’ll just run an extra lap to account for it.  It’s not the healthiest way to be, but I don’t want to set the bar too high for those around me.

Now that I’m hovering near my target weight (I’m consistently around 171), I’m ready to add my 8 pounds back on, but with muscle.  Lots and lots of muscle. I’ll still need to make sure that I’m burning my excess, so I’m probably going to keep the cp90x-iardio portion twice a week.  For the other workouts, I’m going to move to some type of strength training.  In theory, the gym at my house is opening a branch within a mile of my office, so that appears to be an option.  The only problem is that they have to open first….still waiting on that one.  The other option is to take on the latest fitness sensation P90X.  If I go with the P90X, a DVD based system, I probably won’t have the time to do it in the manner it is intended.  There’s a specific regimen of what days work from which DVDs and things like that.  I’ll have some skip days here and there, so my 11-12 week program could easily stretch out to 15-20 weeks.  In addition, I want to keep running, so I’ll have to research and try to figure that out.

Realistically, I’m just trying to get some results without buying into any hype.  Every fitness thing out there claims super results.  The key is to keep changing-up the pattern so that the body doesn’t get too efficient at any one exercise.  Got a recommendation?