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17 April 2012

Weigh-in: 185.0 lb lost so far: 10.0 lb still to go: 5.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well
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06 March 2012

I am very new to the site, about 10 minutes, and just wanted to see how this works. I wish I found a site similar to this one years ago. I will give a short story about my weight battle. I will start of by saying my biggest hurdle is my LOVE for food. I am one of those people who drools when food is the topic of conversation. Because of this I learned to cook at a young age. About the same time I started to cook for myself was the same time I started to become chunkier then most kids my age. I would guess this to be about the 4th grade. I was a very active kid; I played sports all year round but also ate more that I could burn. I really started to get much heavier then must kids around the time I entered high school. This is about the time I stopped playing sports. I was still somewhat active in high school being a typical teenager, but the lack of regular practices and games from playing sports caused my weight to really climb out of control. By the time I got my license at age 16 I was 5 foot 9 inches and 240 lbs. I always considered myself as chunky up until this point. Now I only had one word to call myself, fat. I started to become very depressed and that would cause me to be even more antisocial causing less activity and stress eating. This circle of destruction kept getting worse and worse through college. College took my weight problem to a whole new level. The stress from going to college to become an engineer was intense; classes were extremely difficult and led to long nights. These long nights led to even more eating. My diet now included what taco bell refers to as “Forth Meal”. Off course this late night eating was never anything healthy. Believe it or not at around 270 lbs I meet a great girl that loved me for whom I was on the inside and looked past my weight. She was out of my league but I managed to talk her into sticking around for over 3 years. Over that time my stress over school, my weight and money grew to the highest levels in my life. About 18 months ago I my relationship came to an end. This was the worst moment in my life. I went into a severe depression; I can’t even put into words the pain I went through. The only thing that kept me going was my purist for an engineering degree. I was so close I managed to struggle through it. I hit a breaking point, something snapped inside of me. I knew at that moment it was time to change. I could see the light at the end of tunnel, was going to graduate soon. But so what I still hated myself for not being able to control my weight or my stress. I weighed over 330 lbs when I decide it was time to change. I didn’t want to keep living life at my current condition. I started of small but I started. My goal was clear, I want to love myself. I wanted to look in the mirror and be proud of what I saw. I started off with my own form of the Atkins diet with regular, daily exercise. I also restricted my calorie intake in the beginning. I made one thing an absolute must. I had to go get my heart rate up once a day no matter what. At over 330 lbs this wasn’t hard; I could simply jog for 2 minutes and have my heart ready to burst out of my chest. I won’t get into all the detail of my weight loss with this first post. I am just putting my story out there. I stock with the diet and exercise through my final semester of college and it sure paid off. I went from 330 to 270 in a few months. Nothing too intense, I just keep trying to jog further and keep away from over eating. By the time I graduated about 7 months after my breaking point I lost over 100 pounds. I was down to about 230lbs now. Far from my goal but I at was the happiest point of my life. I got a job straight out of college and life was great. At the end of last fall I was down to 180 lbs and could run a 7 minute mile and was in better shape than almost everyone I knew. I am still going strong but have to keep myself motivated. Now that I’m where I want to be my only fear in life is slipping. I cringe at the idea of putting the weight I lost right back on. So far so good, but I fear that pressure will be with me for some time. But that pressure is nothing compared to the pain I felt when I hate myself for the way I looked. I hope fully will be able to tell some more about what I did not lose the weight but the main reason I am writing this is too let everyone know that it can be done. It’s never too late to start; you just need to go all in. My major regret is not doing it sooner. I took the pain I had and used that to keep motivated. I went from 330 lbs to 180, 46 inch waist to 32, and it only took about 10 months. I have kept my weight and waist the same for almost 6 months now and I hope that to be the case for the rest of my life.

If you made it this far, Thanks for reading this. I am sure it was somewhat hard to follow. I a came across this site and felt compelled to post my story. I hope to elaborate more about what I did and obstacles I had to overcome. Just know that it is possible. No matter what your motivation is, just stay with it. It only gets easier!

Thanks again

Brian

06 March 2012

06 March 2012

Weigh-in: 190.0 lb lost so far: 5.0 lb still to go: 10.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well

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