Tomorrow I'll find out officially where I am on the program. I'm hoping I'll be at the halfway mark - 35lbs down, 35 lbs to go - my eventual goal being an even 200lbs.
Last spring I was in pretty decent shape, well on my way to that goal. I think I recall being around 230lbs and that was the lowest I'd ever been. That would be as far as I got though. I ended up packing on a ton of weight over the summer.
What stopped me? I guess I plateaued and didn't know how to deal with it. I didn't have any advice or support like I do now from the staff at Herbal One. Also I had been on kind of my own little brand of diet which wasn't very healthy and didn't help me at all when I went back to my old habits.
My biggest fear, and I'm sure it's the same for anyone that has ever lost weight or is trying to lose weight, is that I'll gain it all back. Thanks to the way the program is designed, I don't have to worry about gaining the weight back. I'm going to have their support long after I'm done losing the weight I want to lose.
The photo above show you the progress I've been making. August of 2005 I was at my worst...I'm pretty sure I was around 335 lbs. I was huge. I was buying shirts in size XXXL! I knew I needed to make a change. I sure as heck didn't want to die of a heart-attack before age 30 but I feared that was the direction I could be headed in.
I did make some great progress but like most people who simply diet I began to return to my old habits. I started to gain it back. When I got scared of once again looking like the guy from August of 2005 I called Herbal One.
I was 270 lbs and going up on January 7th when I started the program. At last check I was at 237 lbs and going down.
Tomorrow we'll see if I'm back to being the guy I was a year ago...and now that I've got the right kind of support I'll be even healthier and won't make the same mistakes.
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