Yes, I finally accomplished something, I got 100 pound overweight. My doctor says that moves me from just obese to the magic category of Morbidly Obese. I can now get that cool gastric bypass I have been hearing the cool kids talking about.
However, I HATE surgery, doctors, being unconscious, nurses pinching me for blood at 3am, etc. So, I have decided to lose the 100 pounds without the surgery. (Not knocking the surgrery, just trying to avoid it out of personal cowardice.) When I do other things, forums help me to learn, chat, compete, motivate, etc. I am hoping the same works here.
How did this "accomplishment" happen? Well, it took an eye injury (retinal detachment) to knock me out of active sports, weightlifting, or even jogging. So, exercise went down to near zero. However, my appetite remained the same. Perhaps, with the loss of sports, it even went up. So, I went from 210 to 280 in a 7 year span, never enough in one batch to worry, just slowly, creeping, quietly, until my scale didn't like seeing me in the morning. So then, I did slimfast, (can I mention diet methods here?), got down to 250, and then my mom died, and I said, what the heck, why should I starve when I could go any day anyway. Live for today, eat what I want, and the heck with tomorrow.
Now, I am gonna try to compete with myself to see if I can lose 100 pounds. I figure it is motivation to compete, even if it is against my own appetite. I want to avoid getting the gastric bypass, and do it all on my own. I would like to avoid the fad diets, and just go with low calories to drain the fat away. Reading about the folks on the bypass in wikipedia (can I mention websites here?), they go through fatigue, depression, anemia, vitamin deficiency, and muscle weakness. I figure I can do that without spending the money on the surgery.
So, am I in the right place to get pumped, motivated, and challenged?