Bill Phillip's | Transformation

Assignment #4 - Great Assignment Bill

I am doing this because I want to be Free. I want to be free from a life of comforting myself with food and hiding behind the fat wall that I've put around myself to act as a guard.....it's actually been a guardian that has been waving a sword back and forth preventing me from entering the path of success. As long as I can hide behind the fat I never risk actually trying for the success (whole success - Mind, Body, Spirit) and it leaves me with a...

DAY 6 - Le Tour de Mike

My muscle memory (which is probably 70% ego) told me that I would dominate at the spin class today.  Well it didn't quite work that way.  I haven't been spinning in quite some time and my stamina was in hidding somewhere.  I remember that I used to be as good as the teacher and I'm so competative that it drives me nuts not to be able to keep up.  But it's also motivating because I now have a goal to improve.  The main thi...

Day 5 - Switchfoot

This song by Switchfoot urges you to be More Than Fine - That's what I want, I want to have that New Car Smell.  I want my bucket seats to be nice tight, soft, new leather..... clean....people just dying to sit with me.  I want my engine to be fast and my paint job to be free from dents and dimples.  I'm going to fly down the road, cutting through the air, driving fast, by the beach, top down and Sun.  I want to be More than F...

Day #3 - IT HAS BEGUN

What to hear something Scary.......I actually had a moment of confidence and a rush of good feelings today while driving home from work.  I'm sure that's an insignificant event for most but for me it's been a while since I've had that kind of vibe.  Now remember - this is coming from a 300 pounder, so feeling confident and positive about myself isn't the norm.  But the deal is, it occured to me, or I remembered back from some years...

Day # 2

2008-07-22, Day #2  -  It was easy for me to complete the number 1 assignment beacuse I naturally feel terrible about my before picture.....in other words I had no problem coming up with my feelings.  The after wasn't that difficult either because I have a picture of a BFL contest that my wife and I participated in about 7 years ago and we were on the way to being pretty fit.....so I imagined that as my after.  So far so ...

Day Number One

2008-07-21.....I'm a father of 5, husband to my great loving wife, Director at a Large sized General Contractor, football coach for my sons team....but what I have wanted to do for the past 13 years is screenwrite.  I've been so preoccupied climbing in my career and raising children that I never have given myself a chance to follow my own dream.  I have this feeling that if I can just really succeed at this Challenge then I'll be a...

Changing

2008-07-20The way I normally go about any task is to try to do it all myself....that way I maintain control and limit risk.  I've tried so many times to take on this mountain of ill-health that I've created.  I've tried it by myself and I've failed.  I do not like to ask for help.  I don't like to expose my weakness by posting my picture.  I'm doing this, which for me is a Mike paradigm shift, because nothing el...

The Time is Now

2008-07-19A number of years ago I was fed up with the smoking and drinking lifestyle I had slipped into.  I went into a GNC store and found Bill Phillips (free) Supplement Bible.  I got into Muscle Media Magazine and watched Body of Work....and I was hooked.  Over the next several years I joined many BFL challenges and even completed a couple.  My Wife and I were even 4 week Sprint Challenge winners a while back.  Over ti...