Check out this link I found this morning…Forbes magazine

http://health.msn.com/fitness/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100239135&gt1=31036

1)  When getting measured for my tux for the Hawk and Tom Prom my jacket measured a 46 regular.  A year ago, when getting measured for the Hawk and Tom prom I measured a 50 short.  Umm that’s pretty cool.

2)  After my workout this morning at ASI in Simpsonville I asked my trainer (DJ Johnson) to time my 40 yard dash time.  I ran it twice.  5.3 and 5.2!  I’m 34 years old…not a pro athlete or a high school student and I ran a 5.2 40!  Holy crap!  Too bad they don’t let us steal bases in our softball league!  We need all the help we can get-we’re 0-4 this season! lol

Just thought I’d share…

My wife and I are planners!  We plan almost everything in our lives.  She’s hard core about it and when things don’t go to plan…WATCH OUT!  We are currently trying to make kid #2.  According to the planets….signs….vodoo…whatever…this is the prime week for baby making.  My father (who helped to make 3 sons) claims that the sure fire way to creating a boy child is to do 2 things (or not to do 2 things).  1)  Don’t take a shower. (that’s not going to happen!  I want to make a kid, not get kicked out of bed) and 2)  Don’t shave.  That I can do!  I hate shaving!  No problem!  So I haven’t shaved for about a week now.  Im sure these things have nothing to do with it, but what the heck, it adds more fun to the process!  What have you heard?  Feel free to share!

Here’s a pic of the “unshaven” me.  I don’t grow facial hair very well so don’t be surprised if you don’t see anything…lol

As of this past holiday weekend everyone in the Murphy house pee pees in the potty!  Well, I still miss from time to time, but I’m a man and that’s what we do!  Hard to believe that my little girl is doing this.  She went from no interest at all in potty training to full blown letting us know and bringing her potty into the living room.  We started off giving her lollipops for every time she did it.  Now we’ve run out of lollipops, so we’re trying to reward her with hi-fives and clapping.  It’s not the same, but we’d like our daughter to have teeth!  One trick my wife used is to let her run around naked.  This has worked like a charm!  Any time we put clothes or a diaper on her, she has a tendency to have an accident.  So it looks like there’s going to be a lot of little toddler butt in our future…I’m trying to keep from being embarrassed.  I just hope nobody comes to the door…

In workout related news, the upstairs AC doesn’t work right now so I am thinking that I should be able to lose a few pounds in my sleep!  Maybe I should be more like my kid and run around naked?  This is the time of the year people drop pounds easier.  With the warmer weather, your workouts are more sweaty and you drop a lot of the winter weight that is clinging to your body.  Feel free to take it up a notch and you may see the tone that’s been hiding behind that winter coat of yours.  I’m cutting back on calories a bit too.  Swimsuit season is just around the corner and the goal to mow my yard without a shirt still needs to be reached.  I think I’m almost there…(fingers crossed)

Today is my first day of my 34th year on this planet. I will look back at 33 as one of the best years of my life.  Seriously….It’s sad to see 33 go. Last year at about this time I decided that I had had enough of the extra weight. I wanted to feel better-look better-stop being sluggish and not living up to my potential. I wanted to be better for my family and set a strong example for my daughter. 33 will be the year that I changed my life. I lost 35lbs. I found out I had type II diabetes and then got it under control. I got to put on a size 34 pants. Fit into a large shirt (not an XL or XXL). Bought one belt only to have to buy another one months later. Bought an entire new wardrobe. Not had to use the hand rail to get out of my SUV. Stopped making fat jokes about myself. Started to see how out of shape the world I live in really is. Was described to others as “that fit guy”. Took a picture and was proud enough to share it with others. My knees stopped hurting. Amazed my parents. Learned to cook healthier. Became a teacher to others in something besides radio. Caught women checking me out. Gave my wife something better to look at. Heard other women use the word “sexy” when making comments to my wife about me. Saw what this side of 200 looked like on a scale. Ran my first 5k. Was made fun of because of my healthy lifestyle and not the alternative. Walked around my front yard with my shirt off. Was told by people who havent seen me in 10+ years-”You haven’t changed a bit”.

33 I love you. You will always be one of my favorite years. I will miss you. 34 here we go!

The other day I was on facebook when a friend of mine from college hit me up out of nowhere.  I graduated from Angelo State University in 1997.  So, it’s been 10+ years since I’ve seen my old friend Chris.  We started messaging back and forth on facebook and he made comment that kind of put some things in perspective for me.  He was commenting on some of the pictures that I had up on my facebook and mentioned that”I hadn’t changed a bit”.  It’s kind of funny…  I weigh a little less than I weighed when i graduated college.  Chris still sees the guy from back in the day, because he hadn’t seen the guy I was for the last 10 years.  The “bigger” version of Chase.  The 235 pound version.  He’ll always know me as the younger version of the person he sees in the latest pictures of me.  It felt good….

Perhaps you’d like people to see the person you were back in the day?  Maybe you’d like to be remembered by people from your past as the thinner version of you.  June is the one year mark of when I started this journey.  Although it’s not over for me, it’s good to reflect back on the hard work that i’ve put in.  Looking to make a change?  Start your journey by setting up a physical with a doctor today.  The Greenville Hospital System can help you find one. 

Oh yeah, and join the B93.7 Chase’s Challenge team on activateupstate.org