Hello all my name is Kevin. I came across this site one night and I have to tell you the before and after section really got to me. After seeing some of the pics and transformations it made me make the decision then that was what I have to do. I'm 33 years old and extremely miserable. I was in the Marines and when I got out ooooooooo 9 years ago I was 6 ft tall, 210 pounds with 7% bodyfat. I slipped back into civilian life and before I realized it I was sitting here at 288 pounds. I had begun to get back into shape 3 years ago and just as i started I found out my father had lung cancer. This was a man who had hardly been sick a day in his life and here he was in a battle against something that takes too many from us. I let it affect me and I slipped into a severe depression and I kept eating and just sat here in the house feeling sorry for myself when I had exhausted myself trying to be strong for everyone else. He passed away July 16th and it kind of smacked me in the face. Over the past few months I havent been the best at the whole grieving process and I pushed alot of people away because I was selfish and feeling hurt. So anyways.....here I am at square one. I began 3 weeks ago to use the gym membership I got in January. I started at 288 and as of yesterday I weigh 276.5. My goal is to get to 190 and I was hoping to get there by Sept. 1st. I dont know how realistic it is but its what Im going to shoot for. Any advice is always greatly appreciated and I just wanna say thank you to all of you that kind of threw yourselves out there and shared your struggles with all of us. Hope everyone is having a groovy day 
