Down 64 Pounds. A couple of Pictures. Come look.

I started this whole Journey when I was about Seven and I started eating everyones leftovers. My Mother came from a farm family where you had to fight to eat and My dad came from a typical American household where you were told to eat everything on your plate cause the kids in China were starving.

They were proud when I ate all the leftovers and I remember feeling stuffed and feeling good about it. I cleaned my plate. And everyone elses. When I was in High school my metabolism was on fire, I typically ate two Hamburgers, two fries, and two milks every day from the ala carte line at lunch. After school a couple little debbies, and a soda pop. Dinner time, a steak or a meatloaf or a couple hamburgers. MMMM red meat. Mashed taters. Corn. Extra butter. More butter. Salt. Butter. Repeat.

Then for the next twenty years Taco Bell, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Burger King, White Castle, In and Out burger (only when visiting Cali/ NV- god I loved in and out burger), Dairy Queen, Culvers, Red Robin.....

I continued those eating habits and they caught up to me pretty fast. Along the way many times I battled my weight joining health clubs, weight watchers, doing atkins, blah blah blah. The same crap you have heard a million times before. You all know the story, you have all lived it. Last summer (July 2011) I found out I had liver disease and I was super fat. Like Eric Cartmen fat and this gave me a fatty liver, swollen organs, pain and suffering. I weighed 306 pounds, and Pretty much had given up, until the Doc said I had a couple years at best.

I knew he wasn't lying- I had a cousin die at 42 and 400 pounds. He fell over dead in his house after taking a shower. Dead. One second he was towleing off and probably singing Roxanne (from the police not the crappy new remake) and the next he was gone. He was a great guy and used to be really athletic- a body builder. His identical twin is still a body builder today.

It all clicked and I realized I had given up and was just ready to fall over dead after a shower- just like him. I didn't want to do that though, so I got serious- I changed my lifestyle and 6 months later, Here I are.

Im becoming Vegan (I started by juicing for two weeks, stayed vegetarian , cheated three or four times by trying meat and then went Vegan in November.) I focus on getting my maintenance calories in for the weight I want to weigh and working out everyday- by simply walking. I do other stuff too. I run, I lift heavy stuff, I ride bike, the usual. I do those three times a week usually.

But everyday wether its 90 degrees out, raining, sleeting, snowing, cold, -10 degrees, -30 windchill, gloomy, stormy, dark out, light out, middle of the night, alone, with someone, in a group, on a sidewalk, it doesn't matter what the conditions are, I go outside and I walk for at least 30 minutes. I dont make any excuses. I go.

Thats all it takes. Walk. Walk -walk -walk -walk. If I can do this in Minnesota and freeze my butt off in the winter and get slaughtered by a million and one mosquitos in the summer when it is not cold you can too. No excuses.

My goal is too loose another 55 pounds which will get me down too nearly 185 pounds. I dont need to be ripped, massive, muscular, chiseled, sexy...I just want to be fit, healthy, happy, satisfied, content, flexible, and live a long life with my wife and my four children.

OK heres some of my before and after pictures.

October 2010, In Florida visiting our Daughter. I was probably more than 306 pounds here but I hadnt stepped on a scale for a long, long, long, really long time.



Eating some wings at some drinking establishment notice the bowling ball I have for a chin:



Some Vanity shots, just for sport. Yes I know I have something in my teeth, that was the point.





Here is me 'Before' at 306 pounds. Yes I was in pain there. It hurts to have your body that distorted, and at about 260 something last fall.



Here are the hardest ones to post- in my Unders. Please be nice.

This is what 306 pounds looks like and it does hurt- Im not frowning cause I am happy.





Then I took some 260 pound comparison photos last fall:





But wait there is more:

Mid December and all Sexy!!! about 252:



Beginning of January:





Dress in Layers for the cold:



Me and my Spawn:



Today:



A lot of pics, I hope you enjoyed them. It was pretty hard to post the Underwear pics. Don't hate. Unless you are willing to post your fat half naked pics too.