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I have a had lifetime weight problem. Being overweight is something that had affected me tremendously from the quiet devastation of going into a dressing room and not having clothes fit anymore to being ashamed of taking my shirt off at the pool or at the beach to having difficulty breathing and being tired easily. There are times when I have gotten into shape and lost tremendous amounts of weight because there was a significant event happening that inspired me to make a change. In 1999, I started a program where I lost 77 pounds because I did not want to start the new millenium in 200o overweight. In early 2007, I lost 83 pounds because I just turned 39 and wanted to be "forty and fabulous" when I turned 40 in 2008. The picture you see at the top of this page was when I was 180 pounds in February of 2008 when I reached by early goal weight. I was little too thin but I had the ab definition that I always wanted which was amazing since I started that program at an obese 260 pounds.

Now I started my new program at 219 pounds which is a 39 pound gain in weight just since last year. Really horrible. My goal is to hit between 180 and 185 pounds by Valentines Day in the new millenium of 2010. I want to the weight-loss to be a Valentines Day present for my wife, for me and for our marriage. I hope anyone reading this who has had a weight problemw will join me in an effort to go into the new millenium "fit and fabulous".

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Day 18: I am so excited today

After dealing with a lot of drama last night, I was really excited to go to the gym and workout this morning. Got there at 7:30am and banged out a 2 hour workout. I looked on the scale and found out that I was down to 206.8 pounds for a weight loss of 12.6 pounds in just 18 days. My ultimate goal is to get down to my ideal weight of 185 pounds but I have set an intermediate target of 200 pounds. I find that when you have a lot of weight to lose simply targeting your ultimate goal weight can be mentally tough as often it is so far away that it can get frustrating as the weight comes off more slowly down the road. Intermediate targets set up short term goals that keep me excited about sticking with my program. I liked the number 200 because mentally I like being sub-200. Everytime I hear someone is obese they are throwing out 200 or 300 pound plus type numbers. Plus, for me every 5 pound loss below 200 pounds brings dramatic results in how I look so being less than 7 pounds from the immediate target is very encouraging.
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