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So it Begins


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Follow up to blog entry number one. (Should read it first)

 

On 4/26/2014 (a date that will live in infamy) I got a brand new glass top digital bathroom scale. My new life and weight loss journey started that day.

 

I had already come down slightly from my heaviest weight before I got the scale. That day, the scale read 341 pounds at 6ft 3in tall. I was wearing size 46 pants and they were tight without a belt.

 

Time to get to work.

 

I knew the only way to make it work this time was to make it a whole life change and not just a temporary diet.

 

I started with what I knew had worked for me before, a modified form of the Adkins diet. Sugar was to be cut out entirely and carbs were reduced to a bare minimum. I quit soda and sweet tea cold turkey. Luckily, using sugar substitute in my tea was the one habit that stuck with me from my previous attempt at the diet so this was not too hard to do.

 

Every day I would weigh myself and keep a log of the numbers. This is a very helpful technique because it helps to keep you on the right track and to stay motivated.

 

In the past I would attempt to get back on a diet multiple times but they never lasted longer than a week before temptation struck. I was determined to see it through this time. One week passed, then two and three. the scale started to change.

 

It wasn't long after I started the diet that I started drinking Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with a little honey and cinnamon along with my meals. It is supposed to help with blood sugar spikes and your bodies PH balance, plus it starts to taste really good after a while. I'm a believer in it now.

 

I bought a used mountain bike off Craigslist and started riding nearly every day when the weather permitted. I also walked much more.

 

My short term goal had been to hit 300 pounds by my birthday in August. I only missed it by 2 pounds. The next Saturday official weekly weigh in I weighed 298 pounds.

 

For the first time in years I had to buy a belt to hold my pants up. My toe was the first thing to go back to feeling normal. Then slowly my hands stopped aching and tingling. The pain in my leg persisted the longest but it too faded with time past and weight lost. I don't think I have diabetes now or know if I ever really had it in the first place. I'm just glad I feel much better now than I did and I never want to feel that way again.

 

It was late fall of 2014 that I first discovered MLP. I like to think that it too helped motivate me to want to become a better version of myself.

 

Over the winter I worked outside every chance I got and didn't struggle nearly as much as I thought I would over the holiday season (read season of too much bad food).

 

The first Saturday of the new year on 1/03/2015 I weighed 275 pounds for a total of 65 pounds lost, my old record surpassed.

 

The one year anniversary of my new life change came on 4/25/2015. I weighed 250 pounds, a total of 90 pounds lost.

 

Back during my first diet I never really exercised. This time I've been doing some random exercises along with biking and walking. I can actually do real push ups and pull ups now. I never could do them before. I was always too flabby and weak. For whatever it's worth, I can proudly say that I am currently in the best shape of my life, relatively speaking.

 

I have thankfully stayed the course through the ups and downs over the last year and a half. My stubborn streak has proven to come in handy after all. My parents still aren't much help, with many the disparaging argument. Only now they are something similar to "you don't need to lose anymore weight, you're going to over do it". I'm nowhere near where I need to be and these type of comments really do make my blood boil. It's as if they don't want me to be healthy and happy, for the first time in my life. They don't see that under these baggy clothes I'm still fat, just not as much as I was.

 

Some people in your life are toxic, no matter how close to you they are. You must learn to do what's best for you and don't listen to these toxic people or let them hold you back. They must be cast aside on your journey to fulfillment. I have learned this the hard way.

 

You are the only one you have to make happy in this life. You'd best get to it.

 

Today, a couple days before my birthday, I sit at 220 pounds. That is 120 pounds lost in roughly 70 weeks. I have surpassed my weight lose from way back in high school. Things have been slowing down lately so I thought why not write a blog to help give me that little extra push of motivation. It was around this weight that I stalled out all those years ago and I refuse to let it happen again.

 

That's it. I figure I've got another 40 or 50 pounds to go before I hit my ideal weight. I may update this every once in a while when there is something to report or if I need a little extra support.

 

I swear I'll never let myself go back to the way I was. This blog post is just one more tool to help remind me to never let that future come to pass.

 

See ya.

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