Using my fitness pal for 3.5 years lost 168 lbs and kept it off

I was a 3 sport athlete, wrestler ect. At 38 I decided to get to 200 lbs for my family and for me. I was 368 lbs in this picture, HUGE fatty.My fear was not losing the weight it was keeping it off which meant my lifestyle needed to change forever. Drug addicts get treated better than fat people, I would see people watching me eat with disgust, I was not without manners, it was a preconceived notion I was a pig. Folks did not know what I've done in sport and accomplished in life, however it takes a certain amount of self loathing to get to that weight. So I got addicted to the app and tracking weight with a Withings scale and Withings pedometer, hugely. The reason it works is because you pay your dues if you cheat, you can't hide. I lost 182 lbs felt too skinny and put on 20 and maintained 200lbs for over 3 years took 2 years to do. That's me
Today. I understand the total humiliation of shopping at the Xl stores, not fitting in an airline seat, breaking chairs. One time I was getting my tires changed and a service rep asked the tech within my presence how things were coming. He asked for who and the rep replied the fat guy in front of me. It was a reality check because I didn't see my self that way, I had the Shallow Hal effect going on. How I got fat, Xbox sedentary lifestyle with having 6 kids only difference was my wife lost the weight I didn't.

I thought I ate well, I used this app and found out the Applebees salads I was eating 1600 calorie salads, that was the moment. I never assumed anything was healthy unless I could qualify the impact on my body.

Keep it off, don't east past 7:00. Netflix and chill with just the movie no food.

If you are an alcoholic you have a disease if your fat you are a lazy slob, and it's accepted. If you have the mentality that it's ok to cheat and you will make it up, you won't succeed. Drug addicts relapse, with obesity you look in the mirror and one day you wake up fat.