Today marks the day I start a new chapter in my life. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but have procrastinated because I wasn’t ready to make the change. I have been overweight most of my life. However, in the past couple years I hit the obese range. Right now, it’s really bad and I’m at my heaviest weight of 280 pounds. I am one of the heaviest teenagers I know. I’m seventeen at almost 300 pounds. I have made a promise to myself to not allow the number on the scale to hit 300. I remember back when I used to starve myself because I was 180 pounds, but I have added 100 pounds to that and won’t starve myself again. The best solution to this problem is to make a lifestyle change and become a healthier person.
I know it won’t be easy. It will be hell the first couple of weeks and I will want to give up. The problem is this: I’m not an “unhealthy” person. My portions are just too big. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t always make the best food choices, and when I don’t the portions also tend to be off. However, overall I’m not too bad. Now this is only my opinion. Correct me if I’m wrong. I eat fruits and veggies and healthy snacks. I exercise when I can. I walk around at school, but I do sit in a desk for seven hours a day. I’m not a freshman and didn’t take advanced PE so I don’t get much in school exercise besides walking through the halls and climbing steps. Before, I was in marching band so I was walking around and conducting until almost six at night. This gave me some exercise. Now, I’m back in bowling after my knee surgery and will spend most of my time bowling. At work, I stand at a cash register and clean counters and bathrooms. I’m not very active, but I’m a little active, which is better than nothing. When I’m not bowling, working, or doing homework, I want to start walking on the elliptical.
The elliptical would be good for me because it’s not very hard on my knees. I was actually using an elliptical in physical therapy a few months after my surgery. It’s no stranger to me. I plan to do 30 minutes to an hour on the elliptical. Every day would be ideal, but it’s unrealistic until bowling is over. As I type this, I got distracted and started playing a game on my mom’s iPad.
Back to what I was saying. Diet is definitely my biggest downfall. However, exercise is right behind it. My family and I are going to start exercising together. We’re going to use the gym at my mom’s work a couple of times a week. Don’t worry. We got permission. I am also going to start working with my dog again on how to walk nicely on a leash. She was doing good until she started to become dog reactive. We have a trainer and hope she’ll be able to help us with that.
That being said, I have to follow up with a good diet. I’m going to cut all of the “bad” stuff out of my diet. This for me just means cutting out the unhealthy foods. I won’t cut them out entirely; I just won’t eat them often. Some foods I could live without. An example of this is candy. I’ve never been a candy kind of person. The only candy I like are Reese’s and Skittles. I only eat these around Halloween though, which has passed. Changing my diet could help a lot with my weight loss, and lack of it.
As I finish this post, I’m debating on posting it. I know it will be good because it will force me to hold myself accountable. It also brings it to reality for me that I’m actually doing this. I will succeed. I won’t let myself down again. If anyone is looking for a weight loss buddy, I could be your guy.
I plan on posting something every day. This will be to see where I’m at mentally and how I’m feeling. As far as updates, I think I’ll do weight loss updates with my testosterone updates. This would be an update once a month, encompassing all parts of my life I feel comfortable sharing. I won’t start the updates this week. I’ll do a T update tomorrow, and maybe a starting weight update as well. I apologize if I annoy anyone with the constant posting. I just want to document everything so I can look back on it one day and see where I came from. If documenting daily is bad, please talk to me and I will see if I can figure something else out.
Don’t forget to be nice to someone today. Smile, hug, laugh. Whatever you need to do to help someone out today. Have a great day.