Comments on: 243lbs

By: Val

Val — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:43:47 +0000

That’s wonderful, Justin. I was wondering when the next update would come. This is all good. I can’t do the “time machine thing” because the last time I knew my weight before starting to lose it was 2000 or 2001, I think. I remember telling a doctor in 2001 not to tell me my weight when he weighed me because “I [didn’t] want to know.” You’d think moments like that would make you wake up and decide to lose the weight and then start losing it, but no, I still waited another six years. Anyway, you lose it when you’re really ready to, and it’s great that you’re doing so well with this.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:48:41 +0000

i know that i felt overweight now just because of how much more energy i seem to have and how I don’t feel like an old man when I run across the street.

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:12:29 +0000

Seeing the old pictures my sister posted on her Facebook has been a real eye opener. I really don't notice the weight loss until I see how we used to look...and then I can't imagine I ever weighed that much. You've been using your weight loss to look back and compare times when you weighed the same. I'm looking back and seeing how big I really was. I don't remember looking or feeling overweight, but when I compare pictures of myself now to how I looked then it's obvious that I was. I don't know how I let myself get that big, but now that I have the tools and knowledge to eat and stay healthy I hope to never be that big again. I've lost about 50 lbs since those pictures and am within the target weight for my height...and was able to lose most of it in a fairly short amount of time. Not saying I wouldn't kill for a Krispy Kreme donut right now, but I know that I can't eat them every day like I would have in the past.