Eight months ago the Pup got himself a bit sick and decided to see a Doctor for the first time in about 25 years!! That day I weighed in at a whopping 272lbs. Earlier last year my Brother passed away and in a nutshell he passed away because of his size, weighing in at over 400lbs. Clearly that was a direction that I wanted to try and avoid, however, unless I made some serious lifestyle changes I was heading in that direction. Now I probably weighed more than 272lbs as I was pretty sick for a couple of weeks prior to seeing the Doctor, but I will take the initial weigh in during my first visit to him.

So I took the drastic steps that were necessary, I quit drinking, started to see a dietitian, and most importantly I started a daily exercise routine. In eight months I think I have had a total of 6 beers, now that isn’t to say I won’t drink in the right situation (I,e; The Shadowlane party :-)) but I will no longer go out on the weekend for horrific binges. Last weekend in fact I attended a weekend long Rockabilly party and didn’t have so much as a single beer. Anyway, I actually reached this goal last week, but I didn’t want to post just yet as I wanted to give the pics of me spanking Sarah Rocks a good run for their money.

As of today however, I now weigh in at the much better total of 222lbs, down by the initial goal that I set for myself to lose 50lbs within a year. So here I am 50lbs lighter than I was last year and four months ahead of my targeted schedule.

While my initial goal was to lose 50lbs within a year, early on in the challenge I reevaluated what I sought for myself. There is still a lot of weight to lose no matter how well I feel about myself right now, and I have now changed my outlook and have set a new target of 97lbs total weight loss. The reason for the number is the Englishman in me as that will bring me down to 12st 7lbs 🙂 So right now I have another 41lbs to lose. It isn’t a sprint so there is no time limit set, what I try to do right now is lose 1lb a week and so far I have been successful in that. So by the time I get to Shadowlane, if all goes well, my actual total loss should be 56lbs by then!! I will probably celebrate at the Shadowlane party, and my hope is that something resembling the girl in the pic below will be waiting for me upon arrival 😉

It’s a good feeling and if I can give any encouragement to anyone I will be happy to do so. Losing weight isn’t an easy thing, it starts in your mind. There have been days when I have lost the plot, but because I am mentally strong right now I am able to pick up where I left off. It isn’t about just losing weight, it is about changing the way one lives, and I am a much happier man right now. Right, I have some serious spam to take care of on my other sites 🙂