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  2. Gearbox10mm
    In case you didn't know, Greg from FimFlamFilosophy, the creator of Rainbow Dash Presents and the original Mentally Advanced Series, has started a new "negative" Mentally Advanced Series on Youtube. This time around he is doing both the voice acting as well as the animation. The art is admittedly course and simple but he is slowly improving as an artist.
     
    He just uploaded the 4th episode ( episode -3) today. If you haven't seen them yet I highly recomend you go back and watch episodes 0 through -2.
     

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    So it Begins

    By Gearbox10mm,

    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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    This is going to be a rambling and at times long winded blog about my life long weight loss journey. I'm mostly just writing this for myself but if you want to read along that is fine too, and who knows, maybe it will end up helping someone else with their own weight problem.
     
    I figure he best place to start is at the beginning.
     
    My mom's side of the family are all on the large side, in weight and stature, so right from the get go I was predisposed to be big. I didn't start out fat though. I didn't start gaining weight until I started kindergarten at 6 years old. I was an only child and we lived far away from other people, so I think the stress from being around a lot of other kids for the first time had something to do with getting the fat ball rolling. I was picked on a lot and that did not help.
     
    I was the largest kid in school from kindergarten all the way through middle school. It wasn't until high school that others started to surpass me in height. The taunting and bullying about my weight was a constant fact of life. It caused me to have pretty low self-esteem and depression that never seemed to fully go away. Something I still deal with to this day.
     
    I had always tried to go on diets but it was always for not. Nothing ever stuck longer than a few days. Then in 9th grade something changed. I went to the doctor's office one day and the scale read 287 pounds. Yeah, I told you I was big. It was time to do something.
     
    My mom and I decided to try going on the Adkins diet, you know, low carb and no sugar. I also tried some diet pills from the doctor. They helped give me energy but also made me too jittery so they did not last long. Anyway, over the course of about 6 months on the Adkins diet I lost a little over 60 pounds. I got down to around 225 pounds. The 44inch pants I had been wearing were falling off me and I could squeeze into 40s. It was great and I felt like I was heading in the right direction to turn my life around for the better.
     
    Now the bad part.
     
    I remember the turning point like it was yesterday. My dad and I were invited to go on a weekend long hog hunting trip with my cousin. The food we packed was most definitely NOT on my diet plan. Cookies, chips, pies, sodas and who knows what else. Comfort food mostly. After that it was never the same.
     
    For whatever reason I gave up on being strict with my diet. I had always been the strict one. My parents were of little help. Going to restaurants my dad would say things like "oh just eat the hamburger, you can go on your diet tomorrow". He could never comprehend that weight loss does not work like that. It was only through pure stubbornness on my part that I managed to lose any weight at all under those circumstances.
     
    I don't know if it was the return of depression or just loss of motivation that stalled me out. All I know is I stopped caring. My eating habits became worse than before the diet and the weight came back with a vengeance. You know when the say if you backpedal on a diet the weight will come back worse than it was before? They are right.
     
    Fast forward a few years past high school. I don't know exactly what I was at my worst. Suffice it to say it was something over 350 pounds at 6ft 3in tall.
     
    The summer of 2013 I went in to have a wisdom tooth removed were they have to put you under. A day or two afterwards I noticed an area the size of your hand on my right thigh just below were your pants pocket would be had become numb and slightly tingly. I thought it must be some lingering aftereffect from the anesthesia so I tried to ignore it. But it never went away and only got worse. It slowly went from being numb to a deep, dull, aching pain. This lasted for months.
     
    The fall of that year I went on another hunting trip with my cousin to Colorado. The pain in my leg became much more acute during that trip. It was at this time I also noticed the little toe on my right foot felt like it had a splinter or thorn in it. Once again I ignored it but it got worse. It went numb and tingly shortly after. This lasted a month or more. Least I forget my hands. My hands have always gone to sleep fairly easy but now they were aching and going to sleep much more often.
     
    It was becoming clear to me what was happening to my body, the onset of type II diabetes.
     
    This scared me. It still scares me. It runs in my family and my mom has it now.
     
    I didn't want it!
     
     
     

    That's enough for one entry. Continued with blog entry number two.
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    The Trotting Dead

    By Gearbox10mm,

    I just stumbled across this new video series "The Trotting Dead". Basically it's a zombie movie acted out by ponies.
     
    It is well worth your time to watch. They packed an amazing amount of suspense into such a short video. There is only the one episode in the series so far but hopefully it will be expanded upon in time.
     
    I really enjoyed it and think you will too.
     

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    To start off I don't know this person and am not associated with their channel in any way.
     
    I just discovered a brand new female commentator on youtube that is starting a new blind reaction series on the show starting at the very beginning of season one. She dose a pretty good job and seems to be going into the show with no preconceived notions and a fresh perspective.
     
    If watching blind reactions to the show from someone that knows next to nothing about the franchise sounds interesting to you, go check out her channel. I'm sure her small channel could use the support. Besides, we may be watching the evolution of a brony/pegasister right before our eyes.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/user/CoHNaturesFury
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