About Me

So who is The Dilnad?

Note: Big thanks to NerdFitness for telling my story better than I can!!

Yep. That's me and my glorious 326 pounds. It was somewhere between late 2011 and 2013. Not sure exactly when. I didn't change much in that time.

I woke up one day around November of 2013 and decided I was dying. Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. You know the drill. I'm sure you've known someone who crapped all over themselves for years. It was then I decided to make changes and I started walking 10k steps a day. I started eating a low fat low carb healthy (or so I thought) diet with whole grains and lots of chicken(deep fried naturally but hey, it was chicken). I lost a good amount of weight. Maybe around 50 pounds. All of a sudden I hit a wall, for months.

One day I was discussing it with my friend Dan and he mentioned strength training burns a ton of calories<light bulb>. I went home that night and I found this article from NerdFitness. I was up really late that night reading all the tabs I'd opened while I worked my way to the end of the article. The next day my life was changed. Paleo and strength training, that was my goal.

For the next 5 months I lifted, ate properly, and walked religiously. I had amazing results. One day, the owner of my local gym challenged me to run 30 seconds on the treadmill. I think I almost died I was so starved for air. I enjoyed it and a was telling a friend about it who challenged me to do it for 2 minutes. He was working on Couch to 5k. Well, the next day I started Couch to 5K myself. It was all over. The hook was set.

Here we are today. August 16th 2015 and I'm in the best shape of my life.

I'm stronger, healthier and much smaller (202 lbs this morning). All my ailments are gone and the only prescription medication I take is for allergies.

The running has stuck. Granted it's been a long road. Runners knee, bruised ribs and right now i'm dialing my distance back up from my knee surgery. My goal is to get back to 18mi/week in another couple weeks and then begin dialing my distance up again for my next goal. The 2015 Great Pumpkin 10k (already was up to past 10k distance) and then the 2016 Kentucky Derby Mini Marathon.

The Blog: It started rather recently. Just a place on the web to log workouts and my running telemetry. During my surgical recovery I seem to have had a lot of extra time and the ideas just started floating and this turned into a journey following the lessons learned, sarcastic and attempted humor of a fledgling runner(hey that's me) . It's still where I will house my data and on occasion, simple posts with my days activities will be here. In between, there may just be a tidbit or two of failed humor, successful sarcasm, dirty concepts, poor paragraph structure, and obvious conclusions I credit myself as being a genius for coming to.

Hope you enjoy...