About four and a half years ago i started putting on weight. Eating for reasons that i did not understand at the time, or for a long time after that, but reasons that i am now starting to recognise and finding a way to work through them.

Before i started to gain all of my weight i weighed in at 175lbs. This is my goal that i would like to get back down to.

In January 2008 i started this journey to lose weight. As the time it was not my main focus as i had just split up with my ex and i was dealing with that whole thing. My highest weight ever was around this time. I weighed in at 297.5lbs. It is now 18 months on and all in all i have lost 52.5lbs. Don't get me wrong, I am proud of what i have accomplished so far but if i am honest I had hoped to be thin by now however life happened and i got sidetracked with my weight lose journey.

So here i start today, the 6th August 2009, weighing in at 245lbs. As i move forward with this journey i will share my "plan", tips, successes and failures. Each week I will weigh in and track my progress on a good old excel spreadsheet thingy. I have set myself small goals of 5lbs at a time and with every one of those goals reached i will have a reward and will take a progress photo.

So, as i start my journey once again, i just want to thank you for your support. I hope to reach my goals and to make some great friends along the way.

This is me at my heaviest. Weigt in at 297.5 lbs.

01 January 2008

This is a photo that was taken of me around April 2009. My weight in this photo is 245lbs. The difference in these two photos alone is amaizing - i cant image the difference between my starting and ending photo.