It's Been Awhile

Man.....

The month of July was super busy ad super crazy. I've once again neglected my blog. I was doing so well with update about the baby and weight loss and then boom...no updates in over a month.

Things are going great. Everything is well with the baby. Amy is doing great. I give her a lot of credit as she is almost 25 weeks and has yet to beat the shit out of me. She not only keeps me in order but keeps the house in order as well, all while working one of the crappiest shifts. At times I may not say or do all the right things but I truly fall more in love her everyday.

And then to touch on the weight thing. I'm not going to make any excuses but just say that I haven't been doing all that I should be or where I was at about 2 months ago.

All in all things are going very well. I'm trying to find more time to take a break and jump on here to let everyone know whats going on. I still get emails from all of my past readers asking what's going on where ya been. So once again I apologize.

Things are going to move pretty quick as we are only a little more than 3 months away from welcoming baby Shelby into the world I can't wait.

Speaking of waiting we;re also waiting the addition of another niece into the family as my Brother & Sister-In-Law are anxiously waiting for baby Marnie to arrive @ any moment....

It's A Girl!

Well the Intelligender test was very wrong. Amy and I had our ultrasound today to determine the sex of the baby and the ultrasound tech told us we're having a baby girl. I started to get emotional as did Amy. Grandma Bushon joined us for the ultrasound. I'm so very happy.

I added some profile pics and would like to introduce you to Shelby Marie Perreca who is is due to arrive around the 23rd of November.


Thank you all for the love and support and congrats. It means a lot to us.

It's not just about me anymore (video)

More to come with the website in the next few months. Videos, Vlogs, Pictures. My focus right now is getting and staying in the gym to reach my ultimate goal of losing over 200 pounds.

My Goal at this very moment. Being able to drop as many pounds as I can before the baby arrives in November.

My wishes have and are coming true and I'm not going to let my battle with obesity stop me from being able to embrace these wishes.

I will accomplish my goal of losing over 200 pounds, and I want you all there to see it.

Baby Perreca (first ultrasound pic)

Man I've been slacking on this blog. I was giving you all updates every week and then I got news that my life was going to change and got sick.

And to top that off, I got a stupid bladder infection that after taking some serious antibiotics has now gone away.

We'll a lot of the stress that I was having for the last two weeks has now been lifted off our shoulders. Amy had some severe cramping one night and at 2:30am we went to the hospital to see what was going on. This was last week. Everything checked out fine.

We also got in the same day to see the OBGYN doctor and he reassured us everything was OK but we were still worried as we wanted to have an ultrasound done just to make sure. The OBGYN scheduled one and we're able to get in today.

Everything went great. Tech said he could not see any issues and we're on pace for the amount of time we're at aprox 7 weeks. What an awesome feeling to be able to see on a screen that you have created life. Everything checked out fine, we even seen the flicker of the heartbeat. I know it's not much to see as of now but to me it's awesome I've added a pic.. We're both very blessed and excited.

I had a lapse in weeks in my WW membership and will be signing back up tomorrow morning. So I'll be doing another scale doesn't lie post tomorrow. I guess you'll have to wait and see if I've been sticking to this diet. I hope so and the scale will tell me/us otherwise.

Thanks for all the love and support it means a great deal to us.


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Our family is growing, There's a Baby on the way

Wow. Now that the news has been broken to friends and family, I can now tell the world on my blog. A post a while back I had this to say

1. Become a husband (done)

2. Become a father (Amy and I are working on this...lol) (baby on the way)

3. Get down to half my weight (in process) (down 46 pounds to date)

Yes Amy is now pregnant and we're expecting a little one to our family come November. I can't put into words how excited I feel.

This is huge to me. I've dreamed for a long time on becoming a father. To me it was the only thing I really knew. Growing up in a family that was a strong as mine, and witnessing just how much in love my father was with my Mom for 36+ years till the day he passed on.

I asked my Dad one night if he was mad/angry at God for being diagnosed with cancer. He looked at me as serious as he almost always was and said I'm not mad at all. I thank him for the time that he gave me a wife that loves me and two wonderful boys that I've never had to worry about.

I knew right then what life meant to me, and what I really wanted in life and that's a family.

Life is going very well for me right now, I'm enjoying my job, my wife, losing the weight and working out, my friends, my family. I'm just in a really good place right now.

I want to thank everyone for the love and support. Amy and I, are very excited and for me November can you please come any sooner.

What does it take, A must read if you know Jess Perreca Jr.

When do you really start believing what you say to yourself. Wither it be out load or some things you just say to yourself? When do you make a promise to yourself that you really keep?

My weight has been a struggle all my life. I grew up angry at the world and never really did anything about it, till I read a news article about a local man (Larry Coker) that lost I believe at that time over 500 pounds. He was starting up a program for kids that wanted to lose weight. I begged my Mom & Dad to sign me up.

I loved that class and everything about it. I was in an environment where all the kids were felling the same way I did and Larry was our hero. I lost about 65 pounds in that stretch and was on a roll.....

Then one day we all showed up for our weekly meeting and Larry was not there, another week went by and Larry was not there. My parents were paying this Man and he was not there supporting us anymore.

I was crushed and gave up.

Later on in life I would dabble with some other diets and they had minimal results. I then found the Beaumont diet. An all shake diet that surprisingly worked. I lost weight but a trip up north with my friends and a pizza and snacks later saying to myself oh I'll get back on track when we get back home was just the beginning.

I would then gain more weight to only one day wake up to want to do it again.

As determined as ever I started back up on the all shake diet. I was cruising. I was on my way. I lost over 100 pounds only to stumble when my father passed away from cancer. I gained all that weight back and more.

As I sit here and type this, I'm truly in disgust with myself and am looking deep inside me for a new beginning. I need to find a way to control myself and my eating habits. I need to find a way to be more active instead of working my 8 hour day and coming home and sitting in front of the TV and computer.

I've told my wife Amy that I want to join a gym with a trainer and she's very supportive and for it. I have yet to sign up it not because I'm stalling but with the wedding and holidays the money doesn't support it right now.

We have both committed to join weight watchers like we had when we first met and it both worked for us, we'll be starting that the first of the year.

I need to get a hold of my own support system and shake it and tell it that I have many things to live for and goals that I have yet to accomplish.

I'm at my heaviest weight I have ever been at and something needs to change. Wait I NEED TO CHANGE.

There is two goals that I have always made for myself before I leave this world, the first was that I wanted to become a husband. I have fulfilled that goal and the 2nd being that I wanted to be a father.

There's a lot of responsibility that comes with being a father and a husband and that's being able to be here for them. If I want to be a father as much as I say I do then I will make these changes, I will not die on my kids because of something that I feel I can control.

I'm writing this post today as a reminder for myself that I'm promising myself and my future child that I'm going to do everything I can to change my ways.


I know this was long and if your at this point I appreciate all your support.

I will not fail you, me, my wife, or my future family.

Thank You

The Pope Meets Superman

So for mothers day we took our Moms to Bucca for dinner. We had a great time at the popes table. The weekend was shot but fun. I'm still trying to figure out what I really want to do as far as the flip videoing goes. I know in time it will get better & more interesting. Below is a video I put to gether real fast. Check it out.

Family & Wedding Video Vlog Day 2 of 365

So yeah, I went today to get our wedding bands and my ring doesn't even fit me. TooBIG has lost about 31 pounds. Check out the weight tracker in the bottom right hand corner of the site.