It started a couple year ago when Kevin Smith had a heart attack, not when my father did before my wedding in 2010, not when I had my first child in 2014, or the second in 2017. I ask myself, why is that? Why does a celebrity that has nothing to do with me caused me to look at my health and say, “I need to change.” It’s simple really, Kevin Smith has always been a motivational speaker. Every podcast, meet and greet or movie he makes shows you can do it no matter what. So when he had a heart attack and had the real talk about what he went through and what he was doing to get healthy, I told myself I needed to do that myself.
Of course it never happened immediately, even telling my doctor I am planning on working on losing weight. But it happened this year, I decided I will do something about my health.
I chose to begin the year with Weight Watchers. Kevin Smith was doing it, he even became an advocate. My parents have been on it for a couple years already. But I just wasn’t really interested in going to the meetings and talking about my issues. However a friend of mine, she was just doing the WW App and it was cheaper than I thought. The price point really helped, I told myself I was just going to do it for a month. I actually did it all the way through April.
The first couple weeks. I barely used the App, just trying to gauge what I normally ate. It was very insightful. I was over eating (which I knew) but seeing what I was really eating was painful. The point system helped and I tracked what I ate. At the beginning of the year I was at 266 lbs and by April with just watching what I ate, I was down to 255 lbs. After that I canceled my subscription and just tried to continue monitoring what I ate.
My downfall at this point was the renovation we were doing in our house and the scale was moved and I stopped weighing myself. For some people weighing is not helpful. For me I was playing a video game in my head, getting my stats up, so I weighed myself every other day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Not doing this was bad for me.
Now that August has started and the scale has been found I weighed myself again. You guessed it, I gained weight, but not all of it back, I was at 262 lbs. I was upset, but not surprised. I changed jobs, started drinking pop again (Pop is Soda in Buffalo, NY). I saw all the things I was doing again, eating tons of ice cream (it’s my weakness, watching TV shows and eating).
262 lbs, was on August 1st, so now every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will be weighing myself again, tracking my health through multiple Apps and writing this all down for you, the reader (if you have read all the way through this). As of Monday I am down to 261.4 lbs.
Thank you for reading, subscribing and commenting on this blog. You will gain insightful knowledge on how hard it is to really lose weight but my goal is to get down to 200 by next year for our annual family trip of a beach filled vacation. Hey, I got to get in shape not only for my child, and my own health, but my wife deserves some arm candy.
Again thank you for your time.
Trying To Be Healthy 