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[Fly137]

Found this forum through some kind of internet search probably looking for a new diet or way to lose weight easy like i seem to search for about 15 times a week....joined...wasnt ready to post at first, but after the holiday, i think im ready.

My name is Justin. and as of today, 11/30, im 19 . I'm 6'3 and weigh about 330lbs. geez never thought id be saying that. ive struggled with my weight as long as i can remember. my previous high a few years ago was 312. ive bounced around from there to about 275 back to 305. About a year ago at this time, I was taking hydroxycut and got down to 265. It didn't seem too hard for me at the time, probably because of the pills, but it was by far the best I felt in my entire life. Well, after it was recalled, I quit taking it, abandoned my diet and cannot believe how much I've gained back. Yikes.
I still don't feel or look in my opinion that I weigh this much. I often wear hoodies that covers up my "belly and love handles" because I am waay too embarrassed to wear just a t-shirt.

With the exception of being down to 265, and even then, I've always been overweight and feeling bad as long as I can remember. I've taken this day, my birthday, to say this is it. tomorrows the start of a new beginning and I hope some here can help me get to where I wanna be.

A little more info on myself I guess. I'm not an inactive person. I play in a dek hockey league all year around. I attend class 5 days and week and work night times at wendys as a closer. roughly 35 hours a week. I have what was once diagnosed as achilles tendonitis in both of my feet. this causes extreme pain and discomfort in the mornings and periodically throughout my day. The last doctor I saw about it changed his mind on his treatment every visit which was very confusing and frustrating for me. I quit going to him because of this but I am planning to see someone else soon. it doesn't keep me from being active, but it surely doesn't help. its much easier when in pain to lay on the couch and take it easy then hop on the bike for an hour.

One of the most frustrating parts about dieting for me is, (going to sound dumb) well, doing it. I know what it takes to lose weight. I know what I can eat and what I can't. I know how much to exercise. I can start for a few days with relative ease and then bam, for no reason, quit completely. I need to get past this. I don't even struggle to stop eating anything. I can easily quit drinking regular and diet sodas and only water and tea and I'm fully satisfied but I still just give up for no reason.

Another thing that makes this much more difficult is my complete dislike for most fruits and vegetables. Outside of a handful of each, I really dislike most that are good for dieting and should be incoorporated. I have tried eating a lot of them that I dislike and they never grow on me.

I want to be around 225. Charts and studies whatever can say a healthy 6'3 male should be 190lbs or whatever it is but I would look probably deathly sick if I was to hit 190 because I am very broad shouldered built.
225 is my goal. I mainly just wanna fit into the clothes I like to wear again and be able to be seen swimming or just in a t shirt and be comfortable.

So tomorrow is my day.
-Justin

thanks to anyone who actually reads this and can help me out. I would appreciate it more then anything. sorry for the randomness of the order of paragraphs if it seems like it.

[The Apple of Sodom]

That sounds a lot like me... except I'm really lazy and never leave the house... and I like fruits and vegetables... Alright, it sounds a little like me. I have trouble just "doing it," too. I know what to do, I've done it before and had no trouble, but I always fall off the wagon and it's much more difficult to get back on. Once I am back on it, though, I am good for about a week, maybe three, and then I crash and burn. I'm in one of those spells right now, the holidays and a birthday got me worse than I had expected, but after reading your post I feel motivated to start again. ^_~

I don't really have a lot of advice, I was never really good at that and I don't have a lot of information, but all of the other members on here are really great and I'm sure they'd be able to offer something.

[MichaelB]

Welcome aboard!

Hope things are going okay... For what it's worth, this is a really hard time to start a diet, so don't get discouraged if things aren't going as well as hoped.

I like to look for the positive in any situation: I'm trying to get going again myself but am not having great luck. On the other hand, I haven't gained any weight, so my efforts have not been in vain.

[cupcakesCYBORG]

This is a brave time to start, around the holidays, Ive been wanting to lose but I havent really done anything about it yet lol. But I see youre in school five days a week, that's always helped me, Im not hanging around the house eating all damn day . Good luck with everything...oh and also Ive worked at wendys, it sucks XD I think my manager did alot of coke though, and there was alot of lesbian drama

[matt007]

Hi Justin, I know it's hard to start but my trick is not to give up too much. I eat pizza, chicken nuggets, fries, chips really whatever (although I try and limit my junk food and it's a lot lower percentage than it used to be) I mainly just limit my portions. I've found one healthy meal (in my case I eat tons of oatmeal in the mornings) will cut the hunger because you're still getting tons of food on your healthy meal. I'm pretty confident you could eat 2500 calories each day with a pretty good rate of weight loss. And at 2500 you're still able to eat most things. Good luck doing the right things for a single day is pretty easy and if you take it one day at a time it doesn't seem so daunting.