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[14 Jan 2007 | Sunday] 

Category: Blogging I don't know how many of you are privy to the long journey I've been on with my weight loss up until now. It's a long story to say the least, a battle really that goes back about as far as I've been on this earth. See, I've always been a big kid. That's just sort of been the way it was. I was active and all, but I was just big. I guess things got really out of hand about the summer between my seventh and eighth grade year. After that, a lot of shit sucked. Hell, being a fat kid just sucks in general. I'm sure you can imagine. So fast forward a couple of years. High school sucks for the same reason. A lot of the same in college. Then at some point I decide that I've had enough, and after a work related injury sidelines with a bad back (which isn't aided by a weight problem, let me tell you), I apporach my doctor and cofir with him about my options, namely the gastic bypass procedure that I'd heard so much about at that point. It was a big decision, but one I needed to make. Given the state of my back and the crippling pain I was going through, I knew that if I didn't do something soon, it would just get worse. that really was the case for a lot of stuff: health issues, my knees, my heart, that's just how weight is you know? So I went in for the first couple of consultations and got immeadiately approved. Like most medical procedures, it took quite a while from start to finish what with all the battery of test and all, but it was worth it. I have a few horror stories here and there, but nothing that would have swayed my decision to proceed. August 2005 - Day One of my Gastic Bypass. Starting weight 440+ You know I still can't belieive I ever weighed that much. It's amazing to me. One of these days I'm just going to start scanning in about a dozen pictues of all of my before shots and show them off to the world just so those of yo who forgot where I started will understand just why I did what I did and why I struggle the way I do. Eight Months Later of pain and suffering later, struggling and shit included a much thinner me emerges a slim and trim 315. Timing wise that puts me somewhere in the range of abut April. So time passes, as time does right? That was 2005 and it's now 2007. So basically what happened was that sometimes between April 05 and October 06, I forgot just how much work went into what I'd done. I got lazy. I mean, look, I worked out some. I ate pretty healthy. I wasn't a total pig, but then again I wasn't a saint, so somewhere in that time I managed to gain 40 pounds. Look, I know most of you may be saying, big fucking deal Alex, get over yourself, but really that's a huge deal to me. I'm never going back to where I was, you know? And any backward progress, to me, is just the first step in a snowball effect. I know me. I know how I am. I need to stop me before anything gets out of hand. So here I am. It's time to reaffirm. Starting weight: Ocotber 1 2006: 356.8 Sadly I think things just got out out of hand. I wasn't taking my diet seriously. I was going out drinking all the time. I didn't work out very much if at all. I wasn't watching what I was eating. What the hell did I expect to happen? So instead of doing a bunch of radical changes, I just decided to make healthy choices. Cut out fast food for the most part, or else if that's not the option, then Subway. Eat better at work. Make more low cal choices at the super market. Find a workout regiment that I will do. Simple shit. More importantly, shit that I will stick to. Most recently, I even decided to do the Master Cleanser to a whopping 40 Days!!!Impossible, you say??? I'm already 14 days in, bitches!! Oh yeah and if you're looking for an update: as of January 11, I am officially 329.8, almost 30 pounds less thank you very much!! See you in 30 more days folks!