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After highschool ended I put on an extraordinary amount of weight-I was a rugby player who ate around 2700 calories a day and trained 6 times a week so I needed that to maintain a weight of around 185lbs. When rugby stopped I still kept eating the same amount of food but without the exercise I packed on almost 40lbs in less than 6 months. University was miserable because no girl wanted to dance with the fat, sweaty guy and so I sort of spiraled into a depressive state where I kept eating, drinking beer and doing next to nothing. After i got out of Univeristy things didn't much improve except that I began lifting weights (infrequently). One day I saw a video post on social media with myself and friend-I read some of the awful, hurtful comments about how I was "disgusting" and "fat people need to be killed" and it really got to me. So in the spring of 2011 I decided to get into shape-I would walk two miles to work and the same back everyday (I was so out of shape I had to bring a change of clothes so that I wouldn't stink from sweating) and when I felt I could comfortably start running I began with increments of .5 miles to test out my progress. I trained 5 times a week and after a month I began to notice an improvement in my stamina and health-I kept a sensible diet of 2000 kcal a day and cut out alcohol and sugar (it was miserable but I managed to keep it up) that August I ran my first half marathon since Highschool and I did it in 1 hour and 45 minutes which was unbelievable! I have managed to keep my weight around the 185 for around the past 5 years but I just want to say that it really is a solo effort and sometimes in the worst times-with the whole world seemingly against you-smal changes build and grow to become huge successes. Thanks for reading!

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