Weight
So, about this time last year, I became a vegetarian. It was literally the most drastic, intense diet-idea I could think of, and I had gotten that desperate. I can't even digest a lot of veggies, as I've had stomach acid problems since I was a small child. But if I stay like this, my weight will kill me, and it won't be a kind death. I don't want to look like this when I'm too old to do anything about it. So, vegetarian I became. I don't regret it at all, and in fact, I cannot overstate how surprised I was at just how much I enjoyed being a vegetarian. It's like suddenly finding out that you don't mind breathing underwater or sub-zero temperatures.. At my absolute lightest, I got down to 319lbs, but in actuality, I hovered right around 323-326 most of the last six months on the diet. Down a good bit from the 340-360lbs I was at my worst around the end of 2009, but hardly satisfactory for how drastic a life-change it was and how hard I had been trying. Finally, disappointed with my lack of losing and really missing meat, I quit being a vegetarian right in time for my April 1st bbq. Within 2 weeks of being "off-diet" I surged straight back up to 337lbs. I had gained 11lbs in about as many days.
So, after a lot of gym-shopping, google-searching, and everything else I could do to get myself into the spirit of trying something else and figuring out what the something else could be (vegetarianism really was the most drastic thing I could think of), I started just damning the expense and buying nothing but whole, healthy foods, and nothing else. No pasta, no bread, no soda, no diet anything, just whole cuts of meat and whole frozen veggies (and exercise). I just today hit my first milestone weight goal of 315lbs. My scale right now reads 314.8. That's 5lbs lighter than at my best point as a vegetarian, and in fact, the "least" I've weighed since about 2008 or so.. If I have my way, I will never even have to see 320 on my scale ever again. And in another month or two, I hope to be able to say the same thing about anything with a three at the beginning at all..
So, after a lot of gym-shopping, google-searching, and everything else I could do to get myself into the spirit of trying something else and figuring out what the something else could be (vegetarianism really was the most drastic thing I could think of), I started just damning the expense and buying nothing but whole, healthy foods, and nothing else. No pasta, no bread, no soda, no diet anything, just whole cuts of meat and whole frozen veggies (and exercise). I just today hit my first milestone weight goal of 315lbs. My scale right now reads 314.8. That's 5lbs lighter than at my best point as a vegetarian, and in fact, the "least" I've weighed since about 2008 or so.. If I have my way, I will never even have to see 320 on my scale ever again. And in another month or two, I hope to be able to say the same thing about anything with a three at the beginning at all..