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About 10 years ago a friend and I were eating lunch at a local sub shop (not SubWay). He had just been diagnosed with diabetes and was watching what he ate and counting calories. Nothing real strict, just reading the packages and looking at the calorie charts in the various restaurants.

This one day he decided he needed to count my calories too. My lunch that day was a foot long Italian sub, a big bag of chips and a 32 oz Pepsi. Actually had 2 drinks (free refills) before it was over.

He was concentrating on something and had this OMG look on his face. Then he looks at me and says, “You know how many calories you’re eating?”
Phft NO, I remember thinking.
He says “2300...”
WHAT...?? That’s more than the daily recommended for an adult... the DAILY amount. At one meal. And I was going to have at least 2 more cans of Pepsi in the afternoon before I left work. We guessed I was eating 4,000 to 5,000 calories a day with breakfast dinner and sodas all day.

At the time I was proud.

I could eat, A LOT. Still can. My taco salad could feed a family of 4. Always have been able to eat piles of food, a whole large pizza, two 12” subs, 16+ oz steak a huge baked potato and 5 ears of corn... You get the idea.

I’m 5’-8”. I’ve been as much as 275. The weight charts say I’m ‘obese’. No one ever guesses my weight right, they’re usually off by 30 lbs or more. I 'wear it well' or so they say. I’ve been hovering around 265 +/- 3 for about a year. I swear I don’t know how women can get excited about loosing 5 lbs. I vary 3-5 lbs day to day. Hell, I can EAT 5 pounds... 2 burgers with fixens, fries, 2 -3 32 oz sodas. Ya figure, at 8 lbs per gallon (weight of water) I’ve got 4 lbs in 64 oz of drink. Anyway, a couple weeks ago I started eating less. Especially less when eating late. Sometimes we don’t get dinner until after 9 pm and I was still eating a pile of food. That was bad.

This weekend and again today I have broken the 260 barrier. 259 pounds, I can’t remember the last time I weighed this little. Not that 259 is ‘little’, but I’ll take it.

My goals are 10#. Nothing too crazy. Took me years to get up to here. I’m prepared to take a year or two to get down to... my ultimate goal.

Wish me luck. I’ll keep you posted.


Thanks to my inspirations:

Og - I don’t want to do what you did
Dazd - I don’t want to be where you’ve been
Mike - He doesn't blog, but he's the co-worker in the story.

EDIT 03OCT07 1523 - added Mike to "Thanks" list.