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Recently I’ve changed my lifestyle for the better. (after typing, this got a little long)

In 2007 I learned about Affiliate Marketing and absolutely loved it. I was passionate about this new hobby I found where I could make money on the internet. Over the years I tried a lot of different ways to make money online and it was a fun right. I don’t sit at the computer and work on campaigns over and over like I used to anymore. Now I’ve taken most of my free time and turned it into becoming healthy.

Fast forward to March 2010 my wife and I made the commitment to get through the P90X program no matter what. Previously I had done a few of the workouts but never stuck with it. This time we set a date to start and even planned out how were were going to eat better to get the best results. Finally going through the entire program fueled me and my wife to make working out and becoming healthy, not our hobby, but our new lifestyle.

Since then it’s been my wife that has really changed and running with this new lifestyle. I still like to have my burger here and there and some ice cream once in a while but there is no way I’ll ever be back to 195lbs. again.

While working out over and over and finding new programs to do I suggested to my wife that she become a beachbody coach and share her passion with others and who knows maybe make a few dollars while doing it. That’s what happened and that is what her full time job is now. She has quit her in-home daycare and become a full time beachbody coach.

Now she helps people pick programs to use to get into shape and coach them on nutrition and how that is such a huge part of becoming successful when getting fit and healthy. Since we were both changing our lifestyle I also became a coach but just not to the level of passion my wife has.

Affiliate marketing and being a beachbody coach are very similar but also very different. As an affiliate I’m not really worried about making connections to who I’m selling too. I just want to make sure my ad spend is below my affiliate commissions. With beachbody coaching the point is to make connections with people and help them through their lifestyle change.

I only posted on my blog 5 times in 2012, which is ridiculous but it was because I was changing my life. I am not ingrained in the affiliate marketing scene anymore. I am engulfed in the workout scene though, going through program after program and changing my body and helping others.

Here is a run down of how I’ve gone through change in the past 3 years. In March 2010, like I mentioned, I went through P90X fully for the first time. I then went through Insanity during the summer. I wasn’t hooked on all of this during the 2010-2011 school year so I was completing random workouts from P90X. Then the summer of 2011 I was sick and had surgery and it was a crappy summer.

August 2011 is when this change really began to take shape. That summer my wife had ordered Insanity: The Asylum and received a free week long packet of Shakeology: The healthiest meal of the day (It literally is). From there she was absolutely sold on Beachbody and becoming a coach. I recovered from surgery and the start of the 2011-12 school year I hit the track running.

I also started to drink Shakeology everyday and went through P90X, Insanity The Asylum, P90X2, Les Mills Pump and a hybrid of Asylum and P90X to get ready for a mud run (Warrior Dash) at the beginning of June 2012. By this time I was getting really fit. In July I did the hardest thing to change my body I had ever done. I went through beachbody’s The Ultimate Reset. This was a 3 week strict plan of specific eating and supplements that dropped me down to near 145 pounds. I had shed a total of 50 pounds since March 2010. Granted 145 is probably not a good weight for me and I jumped back up to 150 and looked healthy soon after.

To start the 2012-2013 school year off I started a brand new product called Body Beast. This is a new program designed for you to bulk up. I followed the plan to a “T” and gained 10 pounds of muscle while keeping myself near 8% body fat. Right after bulking up I got Asylum Volume 2 and now I’m in the middle of the newest program Les Mills Body Combat. I already have planned to bulk up again with Body Beast and go through The Ultimate Reset in May to get ready for the summer months.

Looking back now it’s been a long journey but that is what it takes if you want to change your lifestyle. I hover around 160 pounds right now and know what it takes to drop 5 if I need to or gain muscle if I want to. I now have the knowledge on how to make changes the right way.

If you’ve read or even skimmed through this update post of my personal journey and are interested in any of the health and fitness information I have talked about I welcome you to contact me so I can help you make the healthy lifestyle change that I did.

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