“After high school, I chose a negative lifestyle. I chose drinking and partying over everything else. Over my health. I never did anything about my health, but I was always aware of my lack of health. I would say dude you’re lazy, you’re drunk, you’re fat. I would tell myself that everyday. I still think about that. It never got to the point where something was happening to me where I hit my health bottom, but I almost did. I hadn’t been to the doctor in 6 years. They told me I had high blood pressure. The drinking and my diet wasn’t helping with that. Another thing was, which I’m still experiencing, is random spasms in my back and neck. But now, for the last couple of months I’ve been going to the gym, and the exercising has kind of mitigated those spasms. That visit to the doctors office was what motivated me. Also, my wife. She inspires me. She works out every morning. If I don’t want to go workout, she will tell me to go and she reminds me that it’s not that hard. I started working out for me, but I also want to continue for us. I want my wife to have somebody in her life forever and she deserves to have a healthy husband. I’m still trying to figure it out, but I know exercising puts me in a better frame of mind. I’ve had results now, so that’s hard to ignore. I feel better when I wake up. I’m able to focus better. I have a longer attention span. I think before, I was trying to fill some type of hole inside of me, but now that I’m feeling good, I’m exercising, and I have a healthy marriage, all of these positive things are filling that hole.”