My Story and The Plan

Hi, my name is J Brian (group responds HI J BRIAN). I am FAT. I have been for most of my adult life.

I will be A Fat Boy No More.

Three years ago I started a journey to become A Fat Boy No More. And since September 2007 I have been publishing my success and failures. This Blog follows me from the day I first started my weight loss journey and it focuses on the everyday struggles that people with weight problems have.

Prepare yourself for a very real and very challenging event in my life. I commit to being as honest and as clear as I can be in the webpage to chronicle my ongoing battle with my weight. The pictures can be explicit.

After 12 years of being bigger than I should be... ok lets just be honest. I was not big I was fat. I have been over weight and muscular for most of my adult life. But the muscular part has been over shadowed by a large layer of fat on my body. I've eaten too much and I lived a sedentary life. In December 2006 I weighed 320 pounds. The morning I weighed myself and saw that I was over 300 pounds I essentially went into a deep depression that day and I am sure that I ate another 5 pounds worth of food. But that night I decided that enough was enough. My weight problem had become more than just an appearance problem it became a health problem, a self esteem problem and it was starting to affect my business and income. I had to do something. And I had to be held accountable. Technology is a good thing. I decided I had to put it out there. I started texting everyone in cell phone saying "Officially a fat ass now I weigh 300". I had been lying forever and telling people that I was 250. And no one questioned it.

The first step I took was to hit the gym and cut my calories. I looked on webmd and found out how many calories there where in a pound (3500) and decided to create this formula to determine how many calories and how much extra exercise I had to do to lose 60 pounds by May 27th. My annual trip to Key West Florida. By February I had lost 25 pounds. On a plan that was essentially the same thing that Weight Watchers teaches you. Then life hit me. After being so good I just got tired of it. I had no real support structure. And so I just relapsed because I was on a diet. Not a life change. But between March and August I essentially maintained my weight loss. In April I got a part time job working in a restaurant as a bartender. Everyone thinks I was crazy to do that but the truth is I just needed something to make me active. I needed to get off my lazy fat ass and be active. I gave up sweet tea and I stopped eating beef for the most part. I chose bison. Which taste so similar and has a familiar texture but had half the calories. Nothing else really changed.

But I did not lose the weight I wanted. When I was in Key West I looked like a beached whale and I felt horrible. I have a picture from that trip that show the folds of fat on my back. I was so depressed after that trip. So I essentially just maintained until late July when my best friend Michelle told me that a guy we both worked with a few years back had lost a lot of weight thru some medical weight loss plan.

I kinda brushed it off. I was looking into Lap Band or some other surgery. Then another friend of mine saw Brad as well and said Brad has lost a lot of weight. So I called Brad and he told me about the plan thru Emory Hospital. I went to an info session on the plan and decided to enroll.

Before you consider any type of surgery please look into medically managed weight loss. IT WORKS. Your doctor or the Bariatrics department of your local university hospital can direct you. Too many of my friends had surgery and lost a lot of weight and regained it. Even with a smaller stomach you can eat ice cream all the time and gain it back. I have a friend that just did that.

So this is what I did initially. Follow my blog posts from the beginning and see the transformation.

Remember

Don't give up today because you fucked up yesterday.

24 September 2009

Two Years Down

Its been two years since I started my serious weight loss. I have been very successful but I'm not content with my level of success. From my lowest point I have gained 22 pounds back. Some of that is added muscle mass. But some (at least half ) is fat.

I have started my trimming down again phase and want to lower my target weight to 230. Its been 240 for a while. My running program is going well. I should complete week 4 tomorrow.

My goal is to be no more than 240 as of October 29. By December 20 I want to weigh no more than 230. I'll be 36.

Wish me luck.

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16 September 2009

Week three C25K Complete

Fat boy is running and Running and Running
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14 September 2009

Week 3 Running Plan Incomplete

Due to a schedule issue I had to move my final run day until Tuesday for this week. The running is going well. I also went out and bought the new Ipod Nano with the built in radio and pedometer. I LOVE it. The radio is great quality and the pedometer keeps up with caloric use. I'm very pleased with my purchase. I'll update you tomorrow once this week is complete.
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03 September 2009

Week 2 Run One Complete

Last week I started my c25k running plan again. If you look back about 18 months you will see that I did the couch to 5 k running plan. After I completed it and could run a 5k. I quit running. I admit I am not a fan of cardio exercise and running has to be the least interesting thing I can imagine doing. But it does do a good job of cutting the fat.

I downloaded a program for my iphone that allows you to listen to your own music while it gives you verbal and visual clues that coincide with the running plan. Yeah. there's an app for that. Actually 2- I got the cheaper one. I'll be hitting the gym for my resistance training around in a few hours.




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31 August 2009

Day three of the running program is complete.

My schedule for this is Thursday Saturday and Monday. I did this same plan about 18 months ago and it worked well. It's coming back to me quite easily. Structured cardio programs work for me.
This is also the start of week two of my clean, green and lean eating plan. No white potatoes, very limited bread, no sweets, no ice cream (sniffle). I've lost 4 pounds. And yes that is too much but it will not continue. A pound or two a week is what I am expecting.

Hope all is well.
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29 August 2009

Day two of my running plan... (second day running)

Have I ever told you how much I really dislike cardio exercises? Well I do. I'm off to run my two miles then I'm going to have a little bite to eat. At least the c25k plan makes the running part halfway enjoyable. My motorcycle trip was cancelled today. Not a happy camper but mother nature is obviously not a biker chick.

Later I'm going to hit the gym for a some muscle building. It's Chest day.
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