Time to get healthy!

shawn_jumbo

About Me:


I have been "husky" since grade school and was heavily teased in my early years. Then in 9th grade I was convinced by my parents to try a weight-lifting summer program. This is when I met some people that convinced me to try out for Football my Sophomore year. This was the best thing I ever did. It allowed me to breakout of the Fat Nerd stereotype that attached to me and gave me confidence to embrace what I had within myself. My last name was Elliott and there was a guy that played for the NY Giants named Jumbo Elliott so in the first few days of practice the Lineman coach asked if he could call me Jumbo. Knowing it wasn't a put down I said sure and became known by everyone in my school as Jumbo to the point they didn't know my actual first name. I even convinced a few teachers to call me by the nickname. I weighed 270lbs during my Senior year and was a starting lineman.

The Journey:

Fast forward to the college years where the weight started adding on. Then I moved to AZ and started my career and even more added on to the point the scale quit reading at 340. In 2004 I started to get healthy doing the South Beach diet and got a membership to the gym. The weight started dropping off and I even decided to do Half Marathon in January 2006 which I accomplished and decided I would never do that again. At 290lbs my body said I was nuts and was not happy to run 13.1lbs. By June 2006 I dropped down to my all-time low of 259lbs in time for my 10 year HS reunion. Since then I have slowly gained it all back plus an extra 15lbs. Time to get serious again and drop the weight. Started up Nutrisystem and got a Bowflex Max Trainer. I will continue at this until I am once again down to the 259 area.

If you need help getting started on Nutrisystem add me and private message me.