Hey Piglets,

If you’ve looked around the site at all then you will know that my journey started at a Man Sized…326 pounds!

It hurts to even say that, let alone type it for the entire world to see.

My weight loss is starting to show on my body and more people are commenting on it and asking me how I am losing the weight, so I figured I would write about it and share.

I am still fairly self conscious when discussing my weight in the “real world” but I am getting better about it and probably as I lose more and more weight and don’t feel like the giant fat guy, it will get better and better.

The Secret

So after much consideration I decided to let you in on my secret, because so far it’s been pretty easy.  Are you ready for this?  Are you sitting down?

Ok, my secret is this….”I stopped eating so much and I started moving around a lot more than I used to do.”

Wow…shocking huh.

Bet you never expected that did you?

I say that tongue in cheek but in reality people everywhere are looking for some kind of miracle drug, diet, workout or protein drink that will peel the pounds off but I hate to say they are going to be disappointed.

The secret to losing weight has always been and likely always will be….to eat less calories than you expend.  The cleaner and the better quality the calories are then the better your body will react and feel about the diet.  Exercise is as simple as walking to start.  Go walk a mile each night at first until you build up your speed and endurance and then transition to a better or different exercise as you see fit.

It’s that simple.  Eat Less and Exercise more and you can lose weight fast!

A System

Now, I say that there isn’t any secret to losing weight and I firmly believe that but you do have a lot of resources available to you.  My problem may be the same as yours and that was that I was addicted to fast food and when left having to make a choice between fast food that was fast or trying to find healthy food I would always make the poor choice and eat the garbage.  326lbs later…..

What I wanted out of a diet was something that would remove the options and be quick and simple to prepare, follow and understand.  I started doing some research and then a mutual friend lost about 50 lbs on Nutrisystem.  I didn’t know much about it at the time, but I saw it work for him very well and decided to investigate it.

It seemed to fit exactly what I wanted out of a plan.  The meals are planned out for you for the entire month, the plan has you eat 5-6 times a day and the food is actually very good and tastes great.  It also usually takes about 90 seconds to prepare if you opt for the microwave option.  This matched what I was after perfectly.

I decided to give it a try and I have to say I am pretty in love with this diet.  I get hungry often, which I never used to because I was always eating crap food, but when I do get hungry it’s usually time for either another meal or your morning or afternoon snack.   It almost feels like I am eating MORE food than I was before however that is not true.  I do eat more frequently but much smaller portions and much higher quality food.

As for the exercise portion, we started slowly, as you must when you are a 326lb behemoth but a simple walk each night quickly turned into a longer walk, which turned into a gym membership and I also dug my bike out of the garage and got it back in shape.  I have a Trek 5900SL that is a beauty and I hadn’t ridden it in almost 2 years!!

I was too busy keeping McDonalds in business.

So now I am back on the bike as my preferred choice of exercise, which is a challenge during daylight savings time but we are doing the best we can.  I will share more on my exercise plan in the future.

Conclusion

So at the end of the day…that’s my secret.  Eat Less and Exercise more and the weight is falling off.   In about 50 days I have dropped 37 pounds and sticking to the diet has been very easy.  I will share more detailed information about the diet if anyone cares but if you are looking for something similar then you might want to check it out.

9 months until LiveStrong Philadelphia……from giant fat guy to Century Rider for Cancer in 9 months.  This is going to be fun!