from 333 pounds working on getting thin. Middle aged mans journey.

  I can't do it anymore. The pain of trying to diet the weight off and then when my diet is done I go back to eating like I did before brought me decades of y0-yo dieting. NO MORE!  I'm choosing every day to eat healthier and I'm liking it.  I even had cake and ice cream last Sunday. Not only was it Easter, but my moms Birthday :)  I allow my self cake and ice cream at those events. Small cake and one scoop, but it's still 14 or so times a year. Much better then my old habit of a quart of Ben and Jerrie's a few times a month.     instead of pretzles with my dinner, you know the "go with" item i'm eating celery and like it! Grilled turkey on whole bread with a touch of ranch and one slice of cheese beats a cheesburger. It's all the small things.

   So exciting to be at the thinnest weight I've ever seen in 16 years, since I met my wife, Karen.  I had gotten to "dating weight", nabbed a girl and the lion was no longer on the hunt, sooooo...... I got Fat Happy and Stupid.    Now i'm doing it slow and steady. Over the last 29 months I've had 3 stops and starts where I didn't loose but actually gained weight, but it was over months. I think that helped when I started weight lifting to get my muscle up. Now i'm working on maintaining my muscle mass while loosing the final 38+ pounds of FAT.      Just want to see what a thin me looks like. I've never been below 203 pounds as an adult. I hit 203 when I was 18 and tried to get into the Marines. So exciting. I"m happy I choose this as my midlife crisis. The life style change is responsible for the slow fat loss and for my ability to keep it off. It's kinda like driving my semi truck. You can drive it after a few weeks of training, but if you...

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Undiscovered country since 16 years ago. This was the weight group I was in when I met karen, my wife. I had gotten a good women and became fat happy and stupid :) In other words, I crashed the weight down and quickly popped back up to the 240’s and upward.  Now I go down. Slower. My next mini goal is 233 because that’s 100 pounds lost. The 220’s will be cool and the 2(teens) will be sweet, but 203 is my lowest adult (age 18) weight. Again, I fasted back then, soooo I didn’t stay there long. This time I will slowly sneak up on it. Eating like a thin person, my body will adjust to it. 199 is my goal. I will look in a mirror, see how my fat% is and decide if this is my goal weight or if I need to go down another 10-30 pounds.  My fat % is between 27-29% so I’m not sure. This is the fun part.  Like building wealth slow and steady gets you there. It’s not sexy or quick, but slow means the body has time to adjust and you don’t go into starvation mode.  BTW : I’m still usi...

   Then I choose to NOT "diet". I'm not training for a marathon and then once i finish it, hit a weight on the scale, go back to the old "me". I'm practicing being 199 pounds. I'm eating like the thinner person. I'm sorry to say I just watched this show on bariatric surgery and I was sickened. The only "way out" is through a surgery? People die from this and they don't ever get to eat like a normal person. It's like being addicted to a drug and being forced to live in a bubble your whole life.     I learned some cute sayings this last week. I'm up to episode 60 of the Fat 2 Fit radio podcasts. "Hunger is fat  cells shrinking." And, " hunger is not an emergency."  What really sickened me is that after theses surgeries these people where so happy to be dropping weight so fast (including muscle). They're bodies where not able to shrink their skin because it was done so fast. I have spent around 25 years bei...