Snarky and fun intro post title!

tommctech

Ok, so maybe not snarky or funny, but oh well

Where to start. I am a 32 year old married father of 2 beautiful children ( not sure how that happened, must be from their mother!). I have been obese basically my entire life. I guess I convinced myself that it wasn't bad at all because I was never prohibited from doing anything I wanted to. Except maybe roller coasters. I could never fit in one, so I convinced myself I was scared of them and didn't want to ride them anyway. I played sports when I was younger, never really ridiculed growing up, hell I was even popular. So in my warped sense of reality everything was good.

It wasn't until my wife had my daughter that things really started to change in my head. It started to make me realize that if I want to be around and watch her grow up, I will soon need to make a change. But it seemed that life got in the way of that. I have a desk job, always busy and felt I had no time to dedicate to being healthy, so it fell to the wayside. Enter my son. Now I should have twice the motivation to change, but instill put it off for a while. One day for no reason, I told myself that's it. Change starts now and here I am.

I started MFP on January 21st. My starting weight was 358lbs. It took a day or two to adjust, but I fell in line. The next week I joined the gym. It was no where near as bad as I made it out to be in my head. First couple of days I was doing 1/2 mile a day on the tread mill. I moved on to some treadmill and bike and some weights and 3 weeks later I am doing 2 miles on the elliptical a day and alternating upper and lower body. Let me tell you, IT FEELS GREAT. Since I started I am down 17 lbs and I don't plan on stopping it hit my GW.

Anyone that wants to come along for the ride, feel free to add me.

/intro rant