Well, the past couple months have been a real trying time. Its been a lot of ups and downs. With the end of last year and the beginning of a new one I am using that to close out the past few months and get a fresh start on my journey. I am writing off last year as the year of excess and taking it easy. I am looking to 2008 as the year of working hard and achieving my goals. Not only as far as weight loss goes but, in business as well. I have slacked in the last year or two and need to refocus my business and set some new goals to help it continue to grow as I continue to shrink. Today I found a site called 43 Things. 43 Things lets you join with others in setting your goals for doing things you want to get done. So far I am only doing 1 thing. That is losing 150 Pounds. Here is a post I made there. It kind of sums up my journey to this point which seems like a fitting way of closing off the past chapter of my journey and getting started on a new one.

I just happened across this site from a blog I was looking at. I have been big all my life. I remember weighing 92 pounds in second grade and just adding to that since. Somewhere around June of 2005 I decided to start trying to eat better. I weighed 430 pounds and was tired of being tired and not feeling very well. I lost 30 pounds and then life kind of got in the way and I went back to not eating so well. I gained back the 30 pounds I lost and added on another 30 to keep it company. Finally around September of 2006 I found my motivation again and got things back in order and decided this time I would lose the weight I wanted and be healthier and feel better. Weighing in at 468 pounds I started eating better, and less and moving more. I set up an appointment with the doctor and then was referred to a nutritionist. I spent the next several months working hard at eating right and I was down to around 400 pounds by January 2007. Between January and May of 2007 I was semi-dedicated to my goal. But, I started to lose focus. When summer hit, I pretty much lost all focus. I got out and moved a lot more during the summer months. Camping, hiking, walking, yard work, etc. More than I had ever done. But I ate a lot more than I should have and made poorer food choices. All the while, I still managed to maintain my weight and was able to take off at least a pound or two each time I went back to the nutritionist. By the end of September 2007 I had dropped more than 100 pounds weighing in at 360 pounds. Enter Hallowgivingmassyear. The never ending three month holiday of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and new Years all wrapped up into one big ball of temptation and stress….

I completely shut down and gave in to every temptation. Halloween candy. Oh yeah baby! Gimme a bag of it. Football Season (every Sunday was a feast. Go Cowboys!), Maple bacon Turkey two weeks before thanksgiving, thanksgiving turkey and home made bread stuffing, Christmas feast and New Years Eve dinner. Not to mention all the leftovers… I went way overboard on all of it. Because of the crappy weather I didn’t get much exercise either. Did I mention how much I hate to exercise? I really hate it! I like being able to get out and go for walks in the woods and go hiking with my son. But I hate having to “work out” and have a very hard time finding motivation for it.

As of today I am at 367 Pounds and I am using the past three months as motivation to get myself back into eating better and moving more. If nothing else, I now feel worse than I did for most of the past year and I attribute the feeling to how poorly I have been eating. I have been keeping an on-line journal of my journey pretty much since the beginning (Built Big). The good, the bad and the ugly. I don’t post as frequently as I would like, but I do try and get a few posts a month. Now that I have found this place. I am going to try and add a few posts here as well to try and add another level of accountability. My end goal is to reach 225 pounds. By the end of this year I would like to be 75 pounds closer to it.

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