Lonniesmalley
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I battled obesity for a while now and every time I think I've won I always fall back into old habits which cause me to regain all the weight I've lost and a bit more for good measure. I have a few health problems that do make my weight loss attempts more difficult than the average person's but I'm not going to lie I've been lazy and even gluttonous ways come to exercise and proper diet.
Over the years if there was a new fad diet or weight loss infomercial I would try at all. The funny part is in the short term at least even the dumbest ideas or products would work for me because I would at least for a few weeks be all in and making sure I didn't vary from whatever the instructions were in any way whatsoever. Then after a few weeks I would usually lose the will power when I'd be sitting at home eating my healthy dinner while my wife and children ate some disgustingly delicious fast food product I've been craving for weeks.
I know it seems wrong to even insinuate but a part of me feels like my wife sets out to sabotage my weight-loss attempts because she's afraid I'd leave her. You see when we first met I was very athletic and muscular. She would always think I was cheating in the early years of our marriage because of the attention some ladies would give me. Then about 10 years ago I injured my back after being hit by a car at nearly 35 mph while I was walking. I was laid up in bed for about eight months and even had to do physical therapy just to walk again. During that time and the years that followed I put on a good amount of weight.
Most days the pain is pretty excruciating and I'm still having to either lay in bed or just sit around because most physical activity is unbearable. It's embarrassing to admit but I can't even put my own socks on. The doctors have already said that my mobility will never be the same but I would benefit from losing some of this weight I've put on over the years plus I recently found out that I'm now type 2 diabetic as well.
So let me go ahead and get the embarrassing stuff out of the way so that I can move onto progress and support:
Age:33
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Weight: 361lbs
Waist: 52 inches
Shirt size: 4XL
Fastest Mile Speed: 39:22
As you can see I definitely have a lot of work to do but I'm in desperate need so there is no negotiating or not doing this. I plan on looking around this site and others over the weekend to come up with a plan of attack as far as diet goes. My diet is probably going to be the hardest part because one of my biggest things is whatever I consume must be soft and easy to swallow because to this day it is still difficult to chew. I also need to stop drinking soda because I think that's where most of my weight was coming from. I think at the height of my soda problem I was drinking nearly 3 2-liter bottles a day and that may be a conservative estimate. As far as exercise goes I will try to walk at least 1 mile a day no matter how much it hurts and perhaps I will purchase an elliptical or recumbent bicycle. Any feedback would be appreciated even if it's merely wishing me luck because to be quite honest with you to me at least for now this weight-loss journey before me seems a bit like an impossible dream.
Over the years if there was a new fad diet or weight loss infomercial I would try at all. The funny part is in the short term at least even the dumbest ideas or products would work for me because I would at least for a few weeks be all in and making sure I didn't vary from whatever the instructions were in any way whatsoever. Then after a few weeks I would usually lose the will power when I'd be sitting at home eating my healthy dinner while my wife and children ate some disgustingly delicious fast food product I've been craving for weeks.
I know it seems wrong to even insinuate but a part of me feels like my wife sets out to sabotage my weight-loss attempts because she's afraid I'd leave her. You see when we first met I was very athletic and muscular. She would always think I was cheating in the early years of our marriage because of the attention some ladies would give me. Then about 10 years ago I injured my back after being hit by a car at nearly 35 mph while I was walking. I was laid up in bed for about eight months and even had to do physical therapy just to walk again. During that time and the years that followed I put on a good amount of weight.
Most days the pain is pretty excruciating and I'm still having to either lay in bed or just sit around because most physical activity is unbearable. It's embarrassing to admit but I can't even put my own socks on. The doctors have already said that my mobility will never be the same but I would benefit from losing some of this weight I've put on over the years plus I recently found out that I'm now type 2 diabetic as well.
So let me go ahead and get the embarrassing stuff out of the way so that I can move onto progress and support:
Age:33
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Weight: 361lbs
Waist: 52 inches
Shirt size: 4XL
Fastest Mile Speed: 39:22
As you can see I definitely have a lot of work to do but I'm in desperate need so there is no negotiating or not doing this. I plan on looking around this site and others over the weekend to come up with a plan of attack as far as diet goes. My diet is probably going to be the hardest part because one of my biggest things is whatever I consume must be soft and easy to swallow because to this day it is still difficult to chew. I also need to stop drinking soda because I think that's where most of my weight was coming from. I think at the height of my soda problem I was drinking nearly 3 2-liter bottles a day and that may be a conservative estimate. As far as exercise goes I will try to walk at least 1 mile a day no matter how much it hurts and perhaps I will purchase an elliptical or recumbent bicycle. Any feedback would be appreciated even if it's merely wishing me luck because to be quite honest with you to me at least for now this weight-loss journey before me seems a bit like an impossible dream.
