me over time

Here is my adult life (essentially) in pictures. I was an overweight / obese kid and was 280 lbs. when I left high school.

In the beginning, there was fat and a lot of it. I knew I was fat, but didn't truly realize by how much. I seriously thought when I started to lose weight if I hit 250 I'd be ripped :laugh:

1/10/04 - 288 lbs.



* I've never done the slimfast diet, my mom was helping a friend promote it.

In the summer of 2005, I had to pay for membership to the YMCA on my community college campus because I wasn't taking classes and I wanted to continue to play water polo (you can guess how good I was at 280 lbs). Anyway, I figured I might as well get my money's worth and started working out 4 days a week. I lost 2 lbs a week that summer and decided to give up pop since I knew I was only drinking empty calories. At the beginning of the fall semester, I was 255 lbs and decided to join a spin class twice a week as it sounded like fun. I continued to lose 2 lbs a week until January when I hit 210 lbs.



I moved on to my undergrad and pretty much quit working out, but didn't eat any better. Moving on to my grad school and in with my wife, I became even more sedentary, causing me to balloon back up to 240.





I had always known that I didn't want to look like my original picture, but I quit doing something about it. I developed my motto, to eat half of what I could. This helped me to lose some of the weight again. I looked into spin classes at my grad college, but they didn't have any that fit my schedule, so I volunteered to teach my own. This semester I am teaching 2 spin classes a week and strength training 3 days a week. This is me this morning at 199 lbs; the first time I have had a 1 in front of my weight since the 8th grade.





I still have some residual fat around my stomach that I am trying to get rid of, but we'll see what happens. I have been losing a pound a week this year, so maybe I'll have to post an update in about 5-10 weeks.