The road to health

When we came back from our cruise, I looked at the photos, and it became quite obvious that I really needed to do something about my weight. I had definitely let emotional eating take a toll on me, and it was time for me to do something about it. In the last two years and four months, I have lost over 100 pounds. Going from extremely morbidly obese, according to that jacked up bmi chart, to obese, and my goal, will put me into the overweight category. It has not by any means been an easy journey. There are days in which all I want to do is drink Coke and eat zebra cakes, but I know that I can not do that. I do still have them occasionally, as a special treat.  I do have more photos, but I am sure you do not want to be bombarded with photos of me, but here are a few to show the progress. I have a few more recent ones, but havent had the time to update them anywhere yet.  It has all been done with food changes, eating in the truck, not eating out, and having control over my emotions. Learning what being hungry was, vs being bored or sad. Also, portion control has been a big thing. Not eating the whole small bag of potato chips and only eating the correct serving size. Once it gets warmer outside I am looking forward to getting out of the truck and being active. I am sure that this will aid in getting me to my goal as well. If I ever get there, at that point, I will have lost over half of me, enough for a whole human being. To me that is just amazing.

This was taken in Seattle in March of 2012. I think that I was around my highest weight at this point. 

These are the same exact pants that I was wearing in the photo above

This is a side by side of me from March 2012 and December of 2013.