Get Lost

Well how many times have you possibly heard this phrase throughout you life.  Most of the time its that someone wants something to go away.  Well let me give you a new perspective on how I've taken that phrase and applied it to a new beginning.

You see I was a very unhealthly overweight man than was often iritable and didn't seem to find the energy to do but one thing...eat.  And nothing was off the menu. Well, this life style eventually caught up with me and turns out, it was killing me fast.  I was within months of becoming a diabetic.  My body had lost its ability to regulate its own fluids.  Doc wanted me to have lap-band surgery.  Thought about it.  Yep just about that long as I had finally reached a very low point in my health and hearing lap-band seemed to say to me; well thats it you failed.  However, Kevin does not fail.  Kevin finds a way.  Kevin was reawakened right at that moment.  I said "Doc, test me for anything and everything that could be affecting my health medically".  You figure that out, I will handle the emotional and physical needs".  Well Doc did his part and put me under corrective care to address those issues.  I went at my part like a wild bull in a china cabinet.  I left no stone unturned as I rearranged everything in my life, and put the first foot forward.  1st thing, Zero sodas....and still not a single soda going on 4 years.  Next was just to get me moving.  Walking with a weight vest just a 1/4 mile.  On a bike and had to push it up a hill.  I think I could do maybe 3 pushups.  Well I was determined to get lost from that person I was hiding within and step out to prepare to live my real life.  The life I had forgotten about but so loved.  I had been a hibernating athlete and within just a few month of me getting lost, the athlete within began to emerge.  From that point it became 150% go time.

I have completed so many events that now I get lost in what all those were.  But in a nut shell, I went from a couch potato boarderline Diabetic in June 2010 to riding in a 150 mile bike event in October.  Then raced my first half marathon in December.  Then another in February.  Then my 1st Marathon in March.  That brought me to my first triathlon in June 2011 and from there I've been liven life with passion all the way through a Full Ironman.

All this was a spring forward and a change in career plus a passion to give others what I got...Prepared to Live Life!!!  Now at GPPfitNWA, GPPendurance, GPPkids we are doing just that.  Because I Got Lost, the real me was able to step out and Prepare to Live Life like we should all aspire!!!  Follow and go with me on my journey of Prepare to Live Life....

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*The Weights symbolize the amount of Fat I lost 135lbs