I'm ready to be confident without a shirt

ten5039

Hi, I'm Travis. I weighed 286lbs at 20 years old, had never had a girlfriend, and was tired of being lonely. After working a manual labor job, I lost about 30lbs in one summer, with my old normal eating habits. I finally asked a girl out, and then because she actually said yes, and was no where near in my league, 5'7" 125lb 17 year old, I was motivated to start going to the gym and make myself better for her, not myself. She broke up with me after a few months out of no where, and I decided that the best revenge would be to make myself better than I was when I was her. I proceeded to continue to lose weight, dropping down to 192lbs, some 35lbs less than I was when she left me over the course of a year. It felt so good. It was the first time since I was a freshman in high school that I had been under 200 lbs, and I was at the point of going into my senior year of college. I met the right girl during that summer, started eating better, but then college came around. A ridiculous credit load left me no time to go to the gym, and encouraged a fast food diet. I regained until I was 224 lbs by the end of the year, (May 2014). It is now summer and my girlfriend and me are both very active outside on the weekends, though I am finishing up school this summer. I decided enough was enough and I wanted to be back in my skinny jeans and look lean again, and not just average. I started lifting, intense cardio, and eating a clean diet while at school, though I do splurge on the weekends. I am down to 212lbs as of this morning, with my current goal of 199lbs in sight. I have only a couple of people on my friends list on here, and thought it might be more fun to have a few people to watch their progress and motivate me to be even better. I'm ready to make the changes to lose the weight I have, and then just have to deal around those stretch marks, which serve as a reminder every day of where I was once, and where I never want to go back to.