#45: Weight loss
It was time to start the long road from “fat” to “fab.”
By 2002, my appearance was out of control. To give you kind of an idea of things, imagine a guy with long natty hair, a round face, no neck, no coordination, whose hands shook if he couldn’t get a sugary soda, sat around playing computer games and who tipped the scale at about 300lbs. Yet somewhere in my romantic mind, I still had the idea that what women were looking for was personality and she would see past the outer shell. Ha…right.
After I showered one day, I walked past the mirror completely naked and noticed myself from the side. My body was shaped almost perfectly round. I had no neck whatsoever. My belly stuck out farther than my penis did…and my penis is pretty small when it’s not erect. I couldn’t believe it…did I really look like that? I was reminded of Dr. Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog. I got the scale out and hopped on….it screamed back 298lbs. to me.
Like most men, I wanted to date women who kept themselves in decent shape. But why was I so hypocritical and hadn’t assumed until now that maybe - JUST MAYBE - those women only wanted to date fit men as well? Like attracts like, after all.
It was settled. It was time for a positive change in my life. Not for women, but for myself. It was time to get off my fat ass and lose weight.
I first chided Mom for buying all the goodies that she always brought into the house, and she agreed to cut it out. I learned to read food labels a little better and know what was good calories and what was not. I completely cut out soda.
I signed up with the YMCA and started hitting the gym five nights a week. I remember my first workout, too. After about fifteen or twenty minutes on the exercise bike I could hardly breathe or stand and had a wetter body than a swimmer. But that was a good sign…all that fat was starting to drip off.
It seemed like the impossible dream at the time, but little did I know what major progress I would be making in my life.
sorry, beautiful Says:
May 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
good for you! how much have you lost?