15 lbs, I have a waist again!

You go, Glen Coco! You look amazing.

Made me laugh out loud, love your sense of humor!

I severely cut back on my wheat and carbs in general! You might be on to something! I feel much less bloated and puffy. Most days before I started, I felt like I would bounce like Flubber if I jumped out of the window.

I have a freakishly long torso as well! There are a lot of factors that came into play, but I'm really glad to know that there are other (long torso'd tall) people to make me feel like less of a freak.

:flowerforyou: The amount of skepticism here has inspired me to share my story. Maybe that will explain some stuff. :flowerforyou:

I mentioned before that I stopped eating crap food cold turkey, and thought that it might help if I post here out in the open what my daily meals were like so that people can see what a drastic difference it is.

On the last day of crap eating, I had three giant pieces of cake for breakfast and washed it down with the 32oz full fat milk sugary coffee drink from Starbucks. Lunch was an entire pound of steak covered in cheese with 8 tortillas and a 2 liter of soda. Dinner was a large Big Mac combo from McDonalds with a side of 10 nuggets. Throughout the day, I ate an entire box of chocolate snack cakes and had several more sodas peppered in.

I got a "promotion" and was allowed to work from home which started this mess. After months of eating like the above (my worst day was three large pizzas, one for each meal), I had become 100% sedentary. Going up the stairs became a challenge; I started to sleep on the couch and only go upstairs to bring stuff down to my new dwelling.

My visit to the doctor on November 1st was shocking to me (and to no one else), at risk for diabetes, dehydrated (hardly ever drank water), and at risk of a whole other slew of stuff thanks to my insane sodium levels. (Three large pizzas would have put me at over 12,000 mg of sodium according to the doctor).

It was the wake up call I needed to turn things around, so I just started eating clean. I love to cook and really reconnected with the experience of going out, picking fresh ingredients, and making good food. No sodas, less carbs, more veggies, TONS of water, and a stern eye on my sodium.

I have also went from the kind of sedentary you only hear about on those reality TV shows to working out as hard as my doctor will let me. I walk everywhere, park at the end of the grocery store, go swimming (have never used my pool before!), tried Zumba, Tae Bo, and most importantly, yoga.

I have nothing but time during my days and spend a lot of it streching, going for light walks, and doing quick yoga to keep my body moving.

:flowerforyou: In closing, :flowerforyou:

Why do I look so different? Who cares? I feel different. I can jog up my stairs, smile at people in public, and finally start to like myself.

What's wrong with your life that you want to bring others down? If you're here and you've lost weight, your hard work was an inspiration to me.

Be happy for me, because I admire you!

My arms are still buried like sunken treasure, time to start lifting and excavate em!