first time adding photos

Hi everyone hope you all are doing well I wanted to make a new success story of my success I have just recently turned 41 a type 2 diabetic when I started my whole process I would say about 5 years or so back I was diagnosed as type 2 I didn't know much about it at the time and it never really concerned me all I understood at the time was my doctor could give me these magic pills that would bring my sugar down ohh there is so much more to it than that I figured well these pills do the work so why worry what I eat boy was I wrong now we jump ahead to oct of 2012 I got an infection I will be blunt it was in the testicles now this got my attention and for the first time I was scared at the end of my hospital stay the urologist came in to have a serious talk with me he informed me that he has had 5 patients this year with the same infection that I did what the technical term of the infection was I am not sure of but I was the only patient with uncontrolled diabetes to survive so an appointment was set up for with a diabetic clinic where I was weighed for the first time ever I came in at 512 lbs this was a huge shock to me I figured closer to 350 ekks was I wrong again I have found I'M wrong a lot just ask my wife she knows well after I found out I was at 512 I started to do a little more activity and got myself down to 406 as of dec of 2013 at which time back to hospital for kidney issues again due to diabetes so christmas came and went now jan 2014 I said that's it I'm done feeling this way and have not looked back I am now off of meds with a fasting blood sugar of 5.1 and an a1c of 5.4 last check up bp was 114/64 kidneys are now back to normal function and I feel amazing I have always been obese since I was 8 years old I have some more to go but will without question make it thanks for taking the time to read this long story of my life and srry for lack of punctuation I ramble on in person to now for photos or I will try at least lol


me at 406 sorry no photos of my heaviest dec 2013




april 14 2013 347lbs





may 14 2014 329lbs





next image not sure date or weight forgot to put it for some reason




and today aug 24 2014 267.5 lbs 139 lost