The big 100 pound mark!

At my heaviest that I have recorded at least I was 287 pounds.  Looking back at that I never realized just how big of a boy I was.  However now I look at pictures and I am almost sick to my stomach that I got that out of shape and unhealthy.  When I was that heavy I did not care how much it effected my heart, I didn't care the effect it could have on my kids and my wife, all I wanted was to eat what I wanted.

Each time I would try to lose weight, I would get down 30 to 40 pounds and each time I would seem to hit a brick wall, or should I say a brick wall would hit me.  These brick walls would come in many different forms.  Back in 2003, I was down to 230 pounds, looking good and feeling even better.  However a very minor car accident set me back.  I twisted my back and was out of work for a few months.  I sat around eating cheap high fat food because it was all I could afford being out of work.

2005 is when I lost total control.  I was diagnosed to have ventricular tachycardia and it was determined I was going to have a pacemaker put into my chest.  I was depressed and controlling my weight was the last thing on my mind was controlling my weight.  I ballooned up and this is the point in my life when I truly have no idea just how heavy I really was.   I didn't even attempt to stand on a scale so I can only imagine.

In 2008 I tried again to get healthy.  My wife and I started to go to the gym every other day, we got a Wii fit to work out while at home and started to lose weight.  Between working at my job, working out in the gym, and and working out at home I started to lose weight again.  I was down to 243 pounds and starting to feel good again.  Again something happened, this time it was a major car accident.  I was hit on my driver side door and ended up with a torn ACL and 3 compression fractures in my back.  Again my weight came back up, to the heaviest that was ever recorded.  Pictures I took while in Hawaii in 2009 proved it.  I was a big boy.

I have to point to the fact that in the beginning of 2010 my family joined the LDS church.  Through teachings of the importance of family, the importance of being the leader of the family, and the importance of treating your body like a temple, it finally clicked in my mind that it was time to change.  I started to again put in the effort.  Sure each time I tried to lose weight something bad would seem to happen, but if I didn't try I wouldn't know.

I got down to 250 by the end of 2010 and looked at where I was.  I knew that most of my weight loss was at the beginning of the year so I decided to really hit it hard.  Come up with a plan and a new way to diet.  I started what would become my net 100 diet.  All I can say it works, it really works.  Over this past year I went down to the 190s.  Now today I have lost 100 pounds from my previous weights.  I am at 187 pounds.  It is such a great feeling, I don't even know how to describe it.  I did it.  I'm not done yet, I know will set new goals and keep getting lower in weight.  My next goal is going to be 175.  For now I'm going to fall to my knees, thank Heavenly Father for the strength and courage I have been given, and get started reaching for that next goal!