Weight loss and perseverance
We’re u always a big guy? Kim
No, I was 185 lbs in High School when I played football. At 5’9”, that weight was about ideal. I stayed under 200 lbs until about age 28 when I slowly started gaining weight due to diet and reduced exercise. My weight slowly progressed upward over the course of years from various injuries, life events and a lack of caring to keep it from happening. It took me 25 years to balloon up to the size I became.
I only gained an average of 3-4 lbs a year over those decades and it was easy to ignore a few pounds each year. But it was creeping up on me. It was kinda easy to just ignore myself in the mirror and just get on with my day.
Then one day I saw a video of myself at an event and it hit Home...hard.
I had become the big fat guy and there was no longer any way to deny it. That was the day I decided it was no longer acceptable and I was going to fix it...one step at a time, just like how I got there.
I created a plan and stuck to it. It was only 40 excess calories per day on average over the years that got me to the big fat place and I was going to reverse it by shaving 300 calories per day to get out of it.
So far, it has worked well.