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.

18 October 2008

Maintaining weight is hard

... especially when you are trying to get bigger. My goals have changed from trying to lose weight to building muscle. While I have added significant muscle mass there is some fat gain as well. I have decided to continue my current "bulking up" plan thru the end of October and my primary monthly health focus will for November and December will be to reduce the amount of body fat.

My specific goals are to build muscle and trim fat-- this is often hard to do. My waist is smaller than it has ever been.
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11 October 2008

October 11, 2009

Its been more than a year since I started my journey.  I have taken what was a weight loss program into a whole body transformation.  I have spent the last 3 months focusing on building muscle more than losing weight.  I have actually gained some weight.  I would contend that a great amount of the weight is muscle.  I will be posting some new body photos in the near future.

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27 September 2008

On the Run again

Earlier this year I followed the c25k plan to run a 5 k race in early July.  After completing this I stopped running.  I have not been a big fan of running I find that it puts a lot of strain on my body.  I feel that I may have trained only for a specific goal.  It was a very good experience from the standpoint of weight loss and body trimming.  This last week.  I started a modified c25k plan.  I am training 5 days a week and I am essentially running/walking 2 miles a day.  In 12 weeks I plan to be running 3 miles a day.

This week has been very successful for me.  I am taking the weekend off and will continue on Monday. 

I am also setting goals for October.  My focus in October is my running plan and training on my back muscles.

Hope all is well.


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21 September 2008

ONE YEAR DOWN

Today I celebrate my first anniversary of my journey. This health journey has been a great one. I have seen a huge amount of success with my weight loss and with my overall health. I have spent the last year changing every aspect of my life. I have built muscle and learned to control my appetite. This has been hard. Do not get me wrong. There are days I just want to go to an all you can eat desert bar and go crazy.

In the next week or so I will post the outline for the next leg of my journey.

Thanks your your support.
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20 August 2008

All about building Muscle

I have changed my focus from losing weight to building muscle. I am now working out 5 to 6 days a week. And I Expect to add some weight with this heavy weight training plan.

My weight loss has stopped essentially. In a month I will be celebrating my one year anniversary of my weight loss journey and I have not decided what to do yet. I am planning on posting pictures as a slide show of pictures from before the journey through the time of my liquid diet, into transition and up through the the current time.

I have Two 5 K walk/runs planned for the coming months. October 4 will be the Ted's Montana Grill 5k Run/Walk and Fun Run. and the Later in October will be the Aids Walk in Atlanta.

I am looking at getting a bicycle. I find that I get really bored of running but a bike will give me more scenery to look at . I hope all is well.
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30 July 2008

Weight Training and Body Changes

It has been a month since I Blogged because I have considered this Blog a Weight Loss Blog. As of today I am changing the blog to incorporate more of a body change theme rather than a weight loss plan. Since I originally started my plan at Emory I have spent a significant amount of time working with my weights to change my body.

I believe... in order to lose weight you must address your diet. Weight training will not help you lose weight. I have gained a few pounds since I expanded my weight training but my waist is smaller and my clothes fit much better. My body definition is changing everyday.

In the next few weeks I will share what I am doing to change my body.
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