I am changing my life!

I am writing this to remind me why I am changing my life. It has been a little over 2 years since I decided it was time to take control again. I was working in outside food sale and had been for about 7 years. During that time I gained almost 70 pounds. I was eating with reckless abandon. There were days, the best I can figure, that I was consuming around 7500 calories. I would eat 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches,have a large dinner and drink 6 to 8 20 ounce soft drinks 5 days a week. The only time I didn't double up on meals was the weekends. I had gone from 180 to 249 pounds (I am 5'8" tall). My heath was horrible, although I did not realize how bad. Like most, I think I had entered a state of denial about how I looked and felt. Driving home from work one night after a food show I had to pull off the road because I thought I was having a heart attack. I decided then and there that I was going to do something about my weight. I started going to a weight loss clinic weekly for B-12 injections and phentermine pills. That worked for a while and I lost down to 205 pounds. But as soon as I stopped going to the clinic my weight rapidly returned. I had not had a physical in years. At the urging of my wife and family I went. At the time I was about 230 pounds. The doctor, of course, told me that I needed to lose some weight but otherwise i appeared to be in pretty good health. The next day she got the results from my bloodwork labs. My cholesterol was 465; my triglycerides were over 1800 and my fasting blood sugar was over 300 with an A1C of over 10. My doctor told me I was a massive heart attack looking for a place to happen! In one day I went from being okay to being diabetic and taking an oral diabetes medicine, 2 different insuline injections, 2 cholesterol medicines, a triglyceride medicine and a blood pressure medicine. Unbelievably I still did not change my eating habits until some months later. I was still eating well over 5000 calories a day with little to no exercise other than my daily routine. What is even worse is my wife had adopted some of my eating habits and had also gained weight. In August of last year we made a pact with each other and I with myself to take my life back. I was a slave to the medications and a slave to food. I have 2 small children and I realized that if I didn't change now I may very well not live to see them grow up. We began to eat healthy and exercising. I had lost about 5 pounds in a months time and was beginning to get frustrated because it was so hard for me to stick to my promise. When I found this website I was 215 pounds. This site has made all of the difference in the world for me! Since registering on here in September of last year I have lost almost 30 pounds. To date I am right at 60 pounds below my highest point of 2 years ago. I am off all of my blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride medicines. At last check my cholesterol was 135, my triglycerides were 93 and my A1C was 6.1, all normal levels. Unfortunately I still take 1 insuline injection and an oral diabetes medicine every day. The doctor thinks if I can reach my goal of another 20 pounds that I may come off of those too. My wife has also lost over 20 pounds and has gone from a size 10/12 to a 6. I know my story is nowhere near as inspiring as some. I know my weight gain was not as high or my weight loss as dramatic as a lot of people here. But I feel like I stared my fate in the face and changed the outcome of my life. There is no doubt in my mind had I not changed when i did that I would not be here to write this today. I am thankful for this website and the motivation it gives me to keep going toward my goal! Thanks for reading!