To fat for my degree field!!

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2013-07-13T21:25:00.001-07:00

MOE Fitness: It is more than a number, it is a lifestyle.

2013-01-27T15:18:00.001-08:00

MOE Fitness: It is more than a number, it is a lifestyle.: A friend of mine on their own weight loss journey posted the above statement, I agree. Most individuals start out planning to lose XX numbe...

MOE Fitness: Snow Angle Burpee - Happy Holiday Season From MOE ...

2012-12-24T22:28:00.001-08:00

MOE Fitness: Snow Angle Burpee - Happy Holiday Season From MOE ...

Grain Free biscuits

2012-11-04T05:27:00.001-08:00

Yummy grain free biscuits from Elana's pantry recipe.

Delicious, low carb, grain free and only 2 grams of sugar per biscuit, Yes Please!

http://www.elanaspantry.com/biscuits/

Try them you will love them!

Before abd After Photo of the Mau Family- Max Life Fitness results

2012-08-07T06:46:00.000-07:00

More Before and after photo's to come later of me. But we just took a family photo this weekend and I was comparing it to one from Easter 2011. Wanted to Share.

Greatest Movie Quote of All Time

2012-07-26T17:42:00.001-07:00

Mountain Dew was my Addiction

2012-07-07T19:56:00.000-07:00

I Have never Understood addiction. How do you risk your family over alcohol, Smoking or Gambling?

Judging these people for years, looking down on them. How can they let something control their life? I have not had a beer since the 1st taste at the age 12. I Left my last chance to play college football because I would not use steroids. I have never used and illegal drug.

That being said I was letting things control me. I had two more teeth pulled today: all due to my addiction of Mountain Dew. Last year at this time I was tipping the scale at 350 plus pounds. I avoided the scale for most of the 1st three month of 2011.

There was an odd circle happening in my life: I was putting myself on the back for not drinking, smoking or doing drugs. However I was rewarding myself with Mountain Dew. Rather than loading a gun I was loading a shotgun. Either way I was pulling the trigger and it caused me to be addicted and controlled by a Drug.

I knew soad was not good for me, but it always made the pain go away. Never did I think that soda would cause me to have no teeth before 45 years of age. I am embarrassed by my actions and filled with regret.

I have not had a drink of Mountain Dew in over four years. With my regret I still crave it even with the pain it has called me over the years.

My Fitness Progress in 6 months! Thanks MAX Life

2012-06-23T22:26:00.003-07:00

MAX Life Rocked it again, and Updated Measurements for my last 6 month being apart of MAX Life Fitness. If you live in the Des Moines area don't walk but run and sign up an Join the MAX Warriors.

-- 1/2 ---------2/8------5/8------6/13
Weight--298.2-------286.2----264.4----255.4
Waist------- 52 ---------- 47---46-----44.25
Hip --------- 46 --------- 43---42.5----42.5

Skin Fold

Tri--------------- 31------- 24---22.5---21
Sub --------------36 ------18---20------20
Chest ------------ 34------ 20---23-----18
Mid-------------- 32-------23---20-----18
Ab ---------------50 ------39---42-----34
Sub --------------50------- 34---30----28
Thigh ------------34 --------24---25----22

Big Weigh-in Today!!!

2012-06-13T12:46:00.000-07:00

I lost 9 pounds in the last 40 days and got my weight down to 255.5. That is 95 pounds lost with 2 weeks left to loss 4.5 and get the cool even 100 Pounds lost for the year. I'm working on more goals. 250 was a pipe dream 12 month ago and now that is reachable I need to push the bar MUCH Higher. I plan to add 2 new Blogs in the next month one dealing with fitness and one dealing with food. The ride is just starting!!

True Strength: Daniel Banks

2012-06-11T22:35:00.001-07:00

2012 Mud Run

2012-06-10T11:29:00.003-07:00

2011 ISF Mud Run presented by The University of Iowa

2012-06-08T07:12:00.001-07:00

Postive feedback is better then Caffine!!

2012-06-06T16:25:00.000-07:00

When your lose weight, Its shocking how a simple WOW you have lost weight. Or You look great, have you lost some weight. Can drive you, Its more powerfully then any Energy Drink and so much more budget friendly. Its such a simple action giving positive feedback to people. Thanks for holding the door. Did you get a new haircut? You look great. Can really change your day. Doesn't have to be for someone that has lost weight. Maybe tomorrow you simple give a thank-you or good job. To anyone, kids,parents,neighbors, co-working. You name it. Build your positive feedback one person at a time.

As a Parent you need to set the path of fitness for your kids!!

2012-06-03T21:19:00.000-07:00

Lost 91 Pounds and more each day!

2012-06-03T21:10:00.000-07:00

What a great ride. There are new things in the works for To Fat for my degree field!

Its Easy because were America the FIT right?

2012-05-25T09:28:00.004-07:00

Wait Were America the fat with 1 million quick fix weight lose plans. So Now that I know its not easy and John Doe next door isn't going to get up and fight thought the plain Like me. I need to keep fighting, Though the pain because I want his wife his friends and John Doe to hate me for I'm stronger, I'm more driven and I'm at lot better looking!!

Facebook Challenge!!

2012-05-20T19:10:00.001-07:00

Teenage Boy Finds Finger in Arby’s Sandwich

2012-05-17T09:08:00.004-07:00

Teenage Boy Finds Finger in Arby’s Sandwich

By Sarah B. Weir, Yahoo! blogger

Ryan Hart, a 14-year-old boy from Michigan, had a rude surprise when he bit into his Arby's roast beef sandwich. "I was like, 'that's got to be a finger,'" he told the Jackson Citizen Patriot. "It was just nasty."
Related: The Six Worst Fast Food Hamburgers (And What you Should Eat Instead)
Reportedly, a restaurant employee cut off her finger with a meat slicer while preparing the meal. She left her station to deal with the emergency, and other employees, who were unaware of the injury, continued to complete the order.
"Somebody loses a finger and you keep sending food out the window," said the teen's mom, Jamie Vail. "I can't believe that." She added that following the gruesome discovery, her son was "traumatized," couldn't eat or sleep, and had been prescribed medication Fox News reports.
Related: Can Fast Food Make You Depressed?
John Gray, Arby's vice president of corporate communications, provided Yahoo! Shine with a statement saying, "Arby’s wants to reassure customers that we are committed to providing quality food in a safe and healthy environment. We are deeply concerned and apologetic to the guest involved in this unfortunate incident....An isolated and unfortunate accident occurred in a franchisee’s Jackson, Michigan restaurant in which an employee was injured. Upon learning of the incident, the franchisee’s restaurant team shut down food production and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized the restaurant. The franchisee fully cooperated with the Health Department during the investigation, and the restaurant was given the approval to remain open."
This is not the first time human remains have been found in a fast food meal but this case might be the most extreme.

A Dayton Ohio man sued Arby's in 2005 for reportedly serving him a chicken sandwich topped with a piece of human skin.
In a famous 2005 hoax, a Las Vegas woman found a human finger in Wendy's chili but police later discovered she had cooked her husband's colleague's finger (which he had lost in a work accident) and slipped it into the bowl herself.
An Albany-area man allegedly found a bloody bandage in the crust of his Pizza Hut pie in 2011.
Also in 2011, Texan woman found blood on her French fries while eating at a Houston-area Crackle Barrel.

Do you think the health and safety standards are high enough at fast food restaurants? Please let us know in the comments below.
Also on Shine:

Hungry

2012-05-16T20:41:00.001-07:00

So Hungry right now!! Not for food for more, more weight lost more Success in my life professionally. Driven in a way I'm sad this took so long but focused on the success I can have today.Not the failure of the past. Change today Change tomorrow - make your failure yesterday make today better!!

Max Life Fitness

2012-05-14T20:13:00.001-07:00

Some Days you just want to quit!!!

2012-05-14T19:35:00.003-07:00

-Your tired

-You want to be lazy

-Pizza sounds better then chicken and Peppers

-Quitting is so easy

-Some days we all want to QUIT!! Doesn't matter the level Doesn't matter the desire you want to QUIT.. Everyone does have these desire's. Its what you do with them is important. You can have them drive you to a better self or you can blend into the norm of today's world. I hate being normal. .Even after losing 86 pounds in the last 10 months. Today was a day I wanted to lay on the couch watch stupid movies and see how many different ways I can fry cheese. I just wanted to give up. Here is the problem with me giving up today- Seven years ago in college I lost a lot of weight and I gave up one day which lead to a second day and that snow balled into a few good weekend mixed into some very bad days and O MY GOD, I'm 350 pounds
-If I quit today I may never return- Reggie Roby's death has always scared me to keep living-

(Reggie Roby is the best punter to ever live- One of my hero's as a kid died way to young)

250 pounds HERE I COME

Designer Whey | Squat Your Way into Shape

2012-05-09T09:25:00.001-07:00

Designer Whey | Squat Your Way into Shape

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Giving 10% effort and looking for 110% results!

2012-05-08T20:22:00.001-07:00

I find it funny how many people show up to the gym giving 10% effort. Then mad, because they want 110% results. Why do people come to the gym then complain there excising? At a local 5k, My family(Wife-ME and 3 year old son) helped this RACE. Called C.A.R.E. 5K & 10K Run and Walk for Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation Awareness in Wauke, Iowa. I had some many people start cutting maybe 200 yards off the WALK, to save them self. Time and the fact they were hurting. This was before the 2 mile mark in the race!

The best line all day a family of 3, Mother, Father and son. All over weight, the husband said were going to walk straight, the son said thank god. The Mother looked at both and SAID HELL NO WERE NOT CHEATING!!! THAT IS WHY WERE FAT AND SO OUT OF SHAPE.

Rest and be happy or Fight for more?

2012-05-08T20:07:00.001-07:00

Today I had my best weight in I 10 years!! 264, which mean's I have 86 pounds of weight lost in the last 10 months!! I'm at a cross roads right now. I could very well look to maintain and be an average overweight person like so many are. Or I can want more. MORE MORE MORE- 250 pounds has been a huge weight in my head for the past 3 years of doing this blog. Many nights only a pipe dream at best. Now no longer a pipe dream but a part of my reality. I know longer just want that 250, I feel my Degree field is also a reality. I have so many more door open today, which means rest isn't a reality.My son showed a kid in school what a spider man push-up was. I want to be the father other father's hate because I'm fit-driven and successful.

WORK HUSTLE KILL...Rob Bailey presses 150s

2012-05-04T21:17:00.001-07:00