A New Low!

I finally cracked 340! I woke up this morning and I weigh 338!!! Thank God! It has taken all month to get under 340. Sure, I am not a scrict dieter. OK, I just try to restrict my intake. But man, I was literally eating carrots and celery sticks and the damned weight would not come off. I have been going to the gym at least five times a week, mostly just doing Treadmill for 30-45 minutes. At last! 338! Now it is on to the next hurdle: 329! I can get under 300 pounds by Christmas!!! I will do it!

Dieting Sucks

I weighed around 417 pounds the last time I weighed myself before dieting. I was at a store that sold freight scales. None of the doctors that I have ever gone to visit had a scale that went higher than 350 pounds. I had reached the point that I could hardly get out of bed.

I decieded to join a gym, because even in my sick morbidly obese mind I knew that my I was out of control. After about a year of lifting weights and very little aerobics, I went to the doctor and found I had a blocked aorta. I weighed 370 pounds by then, so I had lost about 30 pounds over the previous year.

After a few months of dealing with doctors and surgery issues, I went back to the gym, but now I am concentrating on aerobics. Right now it is mostly the Treadmill. I am doing about 30-45 minutes every day. I have lost 25 pounds in the past three months. I am at 343 now, and I need to desperately get under 300 by Christmas.

I am 42 years old, and dieting is not easy for someone who is morbidly obese. I don't know that my metabolism is any slower than a person of normal weight, but it almost takes starvation to get the pounds off. I am eating alot ofvegetables and very little breads and garbage foods. Perhaps I just have no idea how little a normal person eats, but for me, it is hard to lose weight. This month I have been stuck at around 345. After a week of painful dieting, I am at 343. That sucks. But what is the alternative?

I can gain 20-30 pounds a month EASY. A burger combo here, a couple of slices of pizza the next day, and I could be back at 400 pounds in a couple of months or less. With the heart problems, the doctors think it is a miracle that I have not had a heart attack already. I need to make that miracle pay-off by losing weight.

Diet Plateaus

Having been overweight most of my life, I have finally realized something important. My metabolism is wacked. Not that I have any weird glandular disease, I don't. But it is clear that my metabolism never cooperates with my diet plans. When I zig, it zags.

Overweight people who have been on many diets know what I am talking about. It is the metabolic slowdown. When you are literally starving yourself and the pounds come off and you try to carb-load to keep the metabolism going at full speed and the next day you gain five pounds. Then you go back to the diet and the metabolism slowed down anyway, so you literally have to starve all week just to get the five pounds off again. Then you can't stop dieting or else the pounds will come back. 85% of obese people who lose weight on any diet will gain it back within two years.

That is what kills it for me. The point when you want to scream, and yet the scale won't move more than half a pound in the right direction. I have been good, but my metabolism refuses to reward me by losing the weight. That happens all the time over the course of a diet for a person who trying to lose more than ten pounds. It is like a war of attrition, or psychological warfare. And I have a history of losing that war. I have to win this time.