I've lost 154.4 lb's so far

Hi

I am from Melbourne Australia & have only come across this site the last couple of days. I was using another calories app but this one is way better. I have lost over 70 kg or approx 155.4 lb's so far. I've gone from SUPER OBESE, to morbidly obese, to severely obese to obese & now finally out of obese into the BMI overweight catergory....

I was officially 157.5 kg (347lb's) nude morning weight but didn't tell anyone I actually got up to 159.9kg or (351.6 lb's) that afternoon my heaviest weight ever. Today I am weighing smack on 87 kg or 191 lb.

How did I do it? Basically I changed my mindset & started treating my super obesity as an illness. I took 3 months off work on long service leave when I took up swimming. I hated swimming & started off struggling to do four 25 metre laps, by the end of my leave I got up to doing FIFTY 25 metre laps & FORTY on a regular basis (1 km). I started walking 1 & 3 km's & then building up to 4, 5 & 6 km's. I'd do a steep walk up a hill that for a normal person of fitness it would take approx 10 mins up & 10 mins back but for me it took 45 mins & more (wonder I didn't have a heart attack).

I'd lost 12 kg but put on 2 kg the week i was to go to a hosptial in Melbourne to discuss lapband & diet. I thought they were going to flog me lapband. In fact the week prior I nearly cancelled but was talked out of doing so from my doctor. It's a program I had to wait 2 & 1/2 yrs to get into & glad I did. I was told I'd be put on a strict diet & that if i stuck to it I'd lose my weight. If I lost my weight then it'd be far better than surgery. I had to promise that once I lost my weight I'd go on medication which I've been on for the last couple of months now but lost the first 60 kilos on DIET/exercise alone.

I know now if I had've failed this diet & by the way it's the first official diet i've EVER been on which makes me wonder why did i wait so bloody long???? Anyway had I failed I would've been referred for lapband... A work colleague I had his aunty died during the operation at age 60 with no prior problems & my sis in law had a work colleague die at 55 also during surgery. I know of people who;ve had it & had complications, vomitting from eating meat etc etc. I've had none of that. In fact the professor in charge of my program once was getting frustrated coz patients weren't wanting to try the diet but wanting lapband - Look some people need to do it but a lot of people think it is going to cure all. I've heard of people putting weight back on even with lapband.

At one stage I was told only myself & another guy were the only ones to last longer than 3 months on the diet. It is a strict low carb, low to no sugar diet. I started on the diet in June 2011 & pretty much stuck to it only going off it by asking for permission in advance. ie it was my birthday late last yr & I'd asked for Xmas & new yrs as exemption days/nights but forgot about my birthday. My mother in law got snakey when I wouldn't have any birthday cake but I didn't ask for the exemption in my mind though i was sure no one would've minded but I did - I was THAT STRICT.

WhY???? I had to draw a line in the sand in my life which was going no where. Two yrs ago this week I'd made up my mind that in 2011 & 2012 I would do whatever it took to lose my weight - no excuses. Early Feb 2011 on a hot day I went for a walk and about 200 metres in i was wheezing... I had asthma on a HOT day from walking. i never got asthma in the summer but I was never nearly 160 kg's neither. I went straight home & told my wife I'd apply for long service leave the next week to take it ASAP coz if I didn't my gut feeling was I'd be dead by mid winter July 2011 in Australia... Instead I was back at work somewhat lighter.....

From when I started my diet to when i went back to work was like 5 weeks & though we could hardly afford it i returned part time having Fridays off where I was still able to go for either a swim or walk/steep hill climbs or all three. Most weeks I'd get a massage. The point was I could hardly afford not to go part time. I don't believe I would've succeeded if I hadn't of gone back part time. Why??? I had chronic neck, shoulder problems & sitting in an office all day for 4 days a week is enough when one is so overweight. The time I had on Fridays has been in valuble.

I am now the lightest I've been in like 16 yrs. Why coz basically I treated my super obesity as an illness. I hope to post before & after photo's in the success section in the next week or so

The success of what I have done will be determined if I can keep it off in 3, 4 & 5 yrs time

wishing you all the best

Regards

Chris