Hey all ya'll, where are you all at? A little 'bout me!

jeb620

Hello,
My name is Shane, I am 37 yrs. old and I am from Idaho. I have always been a pretty good size boy that carried my weigh rather well---regardless, I was still carrying it, and allowing the weight to affect my self-worth/esteem.
I reached and maintained a weight of 366 lbs, I had hit a point in my life that I had to choose between Life or Death (sparing you the details) I decided to do something different.
Since September 2011, I have lost over Seventy pounds. I have had people ask…"How are you losing weight, what are you doing?" The answer comes down to this…I HAD TO FIND WHAT WORKS FOR ME, there isn't a magic antidote but what I found to work for me is, setting an ultimate goal, then setting the stepping stone goals to get there- plus full commitment to daily effort has been of my plan!!!
I had to mentally prepare (I had to get my head around all the excuses to not lose weight). By doing that, it made everything else a lot more manageable-not easy but manageable.
Watching what I put in my mouth, (counting calories- a great tool for this is this awesome web site, I only started using this site about two and half months ago- and have lost 25lbs since then).
Strength training has also played a big part-when your lifting weights, your body will automatically burn 15% more calories. This was something I didn't know.
Cardio is probably my main focus due to being able to track burnt calories-once again "myfitnesspal.com" has really assisted me-THANK YOU!

I look forward to marching through the everyday battles to finding more success in weight loss! Hopefully I can learn something from some of you too!!