Allow me to introduce myself

Hello.  My name is John, yes another John.  I started blogging my weight loss 265 days ago.  About a month ago I decided that I wanted to try to get more exposure for my blog, The Journey of a Fat Man.  I started searching the internet for other weight loss blogs, especially those by men, and ran into johnisfit.  I quickly realized that his journey had slowed and he had gained back a lot of weight, but to my surprise a few days later he updated the site and set out on a new journey to get the weight off again.  This time I am going to be joining for the ride.

Let me begin with a little background about my weight.  I am currently 26 but I have been overweight for about 26 years.  I seriously never remember not being fat.  I have vivid memories of being overweight in first grade.  I have tried diet pills multiple times (15 pounds lost each time), Adkins (40 pounds lost), and Ally (0 pounds lost).  I had also tried Myfooddiary.com, this is a website that basically just counts your calories and suggests the total calories for you along with fat/carb/protein combinations that are generally safe.  There is nothing special about it.  Eat less, move more.  I tried this back in college, after college, and well … now.  Third time is a charm, I learned something new each time I did it and finally ironed out the kinks.

So, how overweight have I been?  I remember being over 225 in middle school and therefore being too fat to play football.  I was between 225 and 265 in high school (Adkins bring me to 225).  When I went to college I went up to 305 my freshman year followed by drops to 270 ish every summer because of being more active then back to the 300′s.  I finally moved to Chicago after college and completed the Chicago Olympic Triathlon.  My training took me from 305 to 280.  Then I slowly went back up and ended up at my highest (morning) weight ever 316 pounds.

My dad got remarried in March of 2010, I was the best man.  I was already feeling bad about the size my tux ended up being and was questioning how I was going to face my family as large as I had become.  I was always big, but once you pass 300 you lose the right to call yourself big boned, I was fat.  I got called out for not hitting on a girl by my cousin, and in his rant he questioned if I was different, implying that I was gay because I was scared to hit on a girl.  The truth is I was nervous because I was 316 pounds and she was super hot.  I decided then, that I was going to lose weight and I was going to no longer be nervous.

Well as of today I am down 77.4 pounds.  I have had to buy a lot of new clothes when the cloths that I had in my closet that used to be to tight to wear became too loose on me.  My jeans went from a tight 40 to a loose 36.  There are plenty of progress pictures on my personal blog at themindofbonk.blogspot.com.

My plan is to post here once a week as a supplement to what I do on my personal blog.  A weekly update if you will.

Almost forgot.  My goal is 200 pounds, initially.  Then 10% body fat, it may take a long time but that is the dream.

John