When I tell people I’ve lost 130 pounds they usually congratulate me. Inside I feel upset. Sure, losing and keeping off 140 pounds in 24 months is impressive, but man, I still have 125 pounds to go. It’s been a long road.
Later I’ll explain the event that happened in my life to make me want to lose weight. The impetus. The game changer. Forr right now, and for the first post, I need to detail how I got to where I am.
During the last 24 months I’ve been successful in losing weight, but it’s been a war. A war with myself, my metabolism and my attitude. There have been four plateus and each caused significant stress. I busted through the last plateau by adopting an alternative day fasting program, which is why I started this site.
My goal is to get down to a final weight and publish a book about my experience. Others need to know they, too, can win the war with their weight.
The journey has been full of total and utter BS from the medical establishment. Things that you know as gospel right now, aren’t. Things you’re told are bad, aren’t. As with all things involving profit, motives become mixed and agendas twisted.
When I started the weight loss plan in September of 2006 I didn’t know what to do. I was 438 pounds, late thirties and afraid. In the successive months I’ve armed myself with weapons of knowledge enabling me to experiment and find out what works. Now that I know, it’s off to 185. (Yes, doing the math you’ll see I’m at 310. While I’ve been as low as 295, I’ve had a couple of weeks off.)
There are three things I’ve learned and will put into practice for the next 12 months:
There is no secret: The simple fact is weight loss boils down to using more calories that you consume. Easy math that anyone can do. Addition and subtraction.
Medicine has no clue: American medicine is more about making money than make people healthy. Don’t get me wrong, for if they happen to make someone better it’s an added bonus. The bottom line, though, is money. This is why the medical world looks for easy ways to make people thinner. There’s no money in easy math, but there is a ton of money in surgery.
You won’t succeed: Seems odd I would point that out, right? Yes, I have considered it might impact book sales to tell people this, but it is the plain truth. Less than 10% of all people who want to lose weight will keep it off. Statistical anomaly is the best way I can describe myself. My goal isn’t to rah rah people into telling them they’ll do it. My goal is to show what I did, what I learned and encourage you to find what works for you.
So it is the beginning. 365 days of documenting everything. 8760 hours of focus.
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