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.

11 February 2008

Feb 11 Three days left in Phase 2

I have had a great weekend of maintaining and losing weight. I have been at the gym and making great strides. This week I am eating normal food but in a controlled manner. I have been good this weekend and I feel that my weight loss is starting to increase again. I have had three weeks of essentially no net loss and acutally a gain last week. Transition is hard only because you "tempt fate". I have had some good days and others I have just gone over board. Other people in my class have continued to lose weight and have actually lost as much in transition as they did during the first phase.

My workouts have improved. My bench press and leg presses have increased.
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10 February 2008

Saturday February 9

In the last two days I have tightened up my diet and have made some changes to ensure that I will be able to continue to lose weight. I have decided that I would like to lose another 20 pounds. So my weight loss will have a goal of 215 by March 31st. That is 20 pounds or so in 6 weeks. I am hitting the gym and eating lean and green.

I decided to forgo the treadmill today and hit the park instead. Atlanta weather today was great. I walked the park twice. approx 4 miles.
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08 February 2008

Week 20 One Week Left. Challenges

This week I faced my biggest challenges. Busy with work and life sent me off my diet plan more than I could have imagined. After my weigh in Tonight I am re evaluating what I have done this week. While I am happy with my results over all I am not happy with the last week. I have lost between 52 and 56 pounds. There is a lot of fluxuation in my weight right now. I would like to weigh 215.
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23 January 2008

Jan 22, 2008

I am half-way through my transition plan so I have 3 weeks left as an active participant in the weight loss plan.  Last week I gained .6 pounds because I am eating real food again in limited amounts.  So there are fluxuations in your weight depending on what you have eaten that day.  I was not overly concerned about this as I had eaten a few hours before my weigh in, which is about 5 pm each thursday.  When I was only on liquid intra-day weight changes were predictable.  Now that is not true.  My morning and afternoon weight can be 4 pounds different.  Drives me crazy.

Once I complete my transition stage I will report that differently.  It will still be thursday but it will be based on naked morning weight.
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16 January 2008

Week Three of Phase Two

It has been a few weeks since I posted.  December 28th I entered the transition phase. Week one was Hard as hell.  Essentially I gave up one of my five shakes and added back 2 oz of protein, a cup of veggies and a cup of fruit.  I was a very unhappy camper.  Week two was much more doable.  It added a little more veggies but i had the same number of shakes.  Week three- My current week has been better...  a little more food but I gave up another shake.  So I am currently having 3 Shakes a day and some food.  
Last week I eliminated lifting from my works out. I essentially just needed a break from it.  I added or expanded rather my cardio.  I am now doing the treadmill at 4mph with a 15 degree incline.  I do this for 250 calories.  I am pushing this to 320 calories.  
This week I have returned to lifting.  I am now breaking my workouts into three sections.  Chest Shoulders, Legs and Calves, and Arms and Back.  
My weight loss has slowed to a trickle.  My nutritionist believes that my "fat loss is being overshadowed by my muscule gains".  I will take that, happily.

Thanks for your continued support.
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03 January 2008

January 3 2008 Happy New Year

Day 105  Phase 2 one week down.  This has been the most difficult week so far.  I am essentially eating a mini meal a day made up of 2 0z of protein a cup of veggies and a cup of fruit.  The fruit is ok but the rest of it just makes me hungry.  Not a very happy camper.  I weighed in at 233.6 so I lost .2 pounds.  I ate more than I should have. I know  Total weight loss is 54.8 pounds
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