In April last year I weighted 92kg (203 pounds). I was growing tired of not being able to wear my clothes and getting angry with myself for turning into such a fatso. Excuse my French but that is the word that came to mind when I was thinking of myself.
The thing is that I haven’t been overweight forever. Before I turned into lazy-sitting, cake-eating, not-exercising blob I used to be a very fit person who trained regularly and didn’t get tired from walking up the stairs. I knew how good life could be and a loss of that made me almost despise myself. Several times I tried to loose weight but it didn’t work out mostly due to my lack of discipline. These failures just made me even angrier with myself and the cycle of evil continued.
But something happened that sunny morning in April 2008. On my way to work, as I was forced to pick up the pace not to be late which made me all puffed out, I cussed myself for eating another 250gr of chocolate last night. Bad conscience was killing me! Luckily for me I picked up a free newspaper on the bus earlier that morning and one headline caught my attention. I do not remember it exactly any more but it was about detoxing after overeating during Easter-holidays. After skimming through the article I made a firm decision to try that detox over the weekend and see how that would work-out for me. Six weeks later I was 13kg lighter and enormously happier. After additional sex weeks I lost four more kilos and achieved my target weight of 75kg (165 pounds).
I did it all without exercising or starving and more importantly, one year later I have not regained any of the weight I lost during those three months. But the best part is the sense of achievement and self-respect I gained in the process. Now I do not have to fight with myself every morning nor despise myself for every bite of chocolate I take.
This blog is about that. About my personal journey out of obesity and overweight. About achievement, self esteem and happiness. I hope that you will find it interesting, informative and helpful and, if you wish, share your views and experience with me.
If you want to loose weight I want to tell you that you CAN DO IT and once you do it, you can stay that way too. Just make up your mind and stick to your decision. Your new life CAN start here and now but only if you want to.
