The man in the mirror...man is he big!

When one day we look in the mirror and see 500 pounds staring back at us more than a few thoughts go through our heads, When did this happen? I wonder how much I really weigh? If I hold my head at this angle with that light twisted like this I don't look THAT big. I myself look back at how it came about to me getting that big and even retracing the steps can't figure it out exactly, I know that I was a big ol' fella to begin with and then back in about 2000 blew out my back and became perfectly sedentary and from there I gained and gained. Before I knew it I was bigger than I had ever been and was looking for a way out of being that big so I looked at the surgery option about seven years later but upon researching some of the procedures I found out that it was just a way to force me into not eating because of a tiny stomach, that's not something I was cool with. I decided to change the way that I was doing things and here I am two and a half years later doing just that and have literally changed my life completely from where I was at 500 plus pounds.

I am sitting here typing this out and thinking back to how things were compared to how they are now. Back when I was much heavier I would wake up as late as possible so that I could do whatever I needed to do to start my day but before anything downing a huge cup of coffee with way too much creamer in it was a must and then there was that second cup. Now I wake up and hit the ground running, instead of the coffee its a big glass of home brewed green tea and then its getting the kids ready for their day and off to school. After that my day kind of develops on its own and can range from a trip to the gym, a bike ride, some gardening (I just found my first eggplant out there this morning) or lots of other things and the previous situation is more like a prison sentence than a life.

Making the decision to do something about it was one of the best ideas that I have ever had and I am here today writing this to keep myself on track and for you to read and hopefully see that it can be done, that decision not so long ago in a galaxy not so far far away got me to this point. Things would be completely different today if I hadn't done what I did to get my health back, in fact I may not have even made it to this point of my life if I hadn't changed when I did, no one will ever know that and I am glad about that fact if I am being honest. If you find yourself looking at a reflection that just does not look like the you that you know is there do yourself a favor and decide that today will be the day that you do something about it, today will be the day that you start living again. If you found this blog chances are that you are considering doing something about your weight issues or are doing something about them or maybe you just stumbled here accidentally when you searched "sexy fat dudes", of course I am kidding on that last one but hey! who knows? however you got here just take a look at some of my before and after pictures if you think that it can't be done without surgery, pills or some expensive per month diet guru's plan because I used none of that and am down more than 200 pounds because of it and if those pictures don't do it for ya check out my man Harvey McDullardsonfengenden.

Now to some business, I have not done a weigh in and that's partially because of my absence in writing posts a week or two ago but partially because I have slipped slipped slipped back and have gone up in weight shame on me I know. I will still do a "weigh in" post of sorts tomorrow and until I get sub 300 pounds, the difference is that until I cross that threshold I'm not going to post what I weighed, instead of my weight I will post what I lost or gained that week and this week is a crazy number. When I hit 300 pounds on the nose or a sub 300 pound weight no matter what day it is I will post that actual weight and I am again thinking about doing a video blog perhaps for my weigh in days? or maybe just at that milestone? or making a recipe? I am not sure yet but I have been for a LONG time wanting to do one and I think that the time is coming sooner than later.

That's the end of this post and I need you to know that if you want to get healthy and drop a few or a lot of pounds that its all up to you, no one else eats for you and no one else's ass is going to grow because you ate that extra cannoli.

Thanks for reading along.

As Ever
Me

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That...or you can put the box of cookies down, tear your ass away from in front of that magical plastic box full of wires and electronics and go for a walk.

As you can tell I am in a mood this morning and can't wait to leave for the gym this afternoon, I did well yesterday where intake is concerned and I ate 1700 calories on the nose. My hydration effort was 1 gallon of green tea and just under 1 gallon of Straight H2O and I did not get a chance to go to the gym as my daughter had the day off from school, my schedule is to have Wednesdays off but because I missed yesterday I will go today Thursday and Friday to make up for the non workout yesterday so it all evens out.

Here is a look at my menu from yesterday

Breakfast
8:00 AM
2 cups fruit and grain cereal 240
1 cup 1% milk 110

10:30 AM
1 banana 105
1 T peanut butter 95

Lunch
1:30 PM
2 boiled eggs 140
multigrain bread 200
1 T miracle whip 50
tomato/pickle 30

4:30 PM
2 cups cookie crisp cereal 240
1 cup 1% milk 110

Dinner
7:30 PM
6 inch turkey subway 280

8:15 PM
1 apple 100

That's all I got for today, remember to stay hydrated and Thanks for reading along, oh one last thing stop the madness with all of the excitable muscle bound 1980's dude extreme 100% bullshit diet plans that they try to sell us on the boob tube and pick up an apple, its the only thing that's gonna work people.

As Ever
Me