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Help, I’m 200 Pounds Overweight

I have a problem. I now have to shop in the big men’s department at the clothing store. I sit on the furniture and it breaks. My grocery bill is completely out of control. I know that I am obese and I need to take control of the problem before it is too late. I’m just not sure how I can accomplish this daunting feat.

Before I had figured out what I should do, I caught the program called the Biggest Loser which was about people who needed to lose weight. I went online and found out that the show had a website that included a link to the biggest loser forum where there were all sorts of helpful hints, tools and chat rooms that are dedicated to helping people lose weight. It was great to be able to find out that there was support out there for me in my quest. When you don’t have to face the prospect of losing weight alone, it is a much less daunting task. So I completed my first step by doing the research.

After doing the research, I learned that I had to figure out how much I should lose. I was more than two hundred pounds overweight and needed to correct it now. I knew that I had to learn how to lose weight fastbecause my health was in danger and if I did not act quickly, I might not get another chance to succeed, and like the people on the show I had watched, I decided that I could lose more than ten pounds a week if I worked hard enough. I knew that I would have to dedicate myself to the chore, but I was up to challenge.

I could not achieve the results by myself, I knew that I wouldn’t succeed by doing a handful of six pack ab exercises in the comfort of my own home whenever I could find the time to do it, and I wanted some professional help. I decided that I would seek the help at a nearby health club The gym was the best place for me to work out with the assistance of experts all around me. In order to be safe about losing weight, I sought out the help of my physician. I was given a plan by my physician that would allow me to drop the pounds the right way. My personal trainer gave me an exercise plan to follow. I was on my way to a better lifestyle.

For the next few months I devoted my life to exercise, diet, and work. I couldn’t fit anything else into my schedule. All of the effort started to pay off. I was losing weight. In just the first month, I was able to lose over forty pounds. For a short time, my weight loss stopped, and I was stick at the same weight for a couple of weeks. All of my support groups that I had developed informed me that this was normal and not to worry about it, just keep doing what I was doing. I listened to my friends and family and stuck with it. Eventually the pounds started to disappear again. My self image was back up again because I didn’t give up.

I have made a major impact on my life by making the decision to lose weight and have been very successful going from over four hundred pound to about two hundred and thirty pounds in under a year. It wasn’t always easy, but it was all worth it. I have added over a decade to my life expectancy by getting healthy. I am well respected at my gym for what I have accomplished. I wake up in the morning with a smile on my face and a skip in my step because of how I feel. The best part of the journey has not been losing the weight although I wouldn’t want it back. I have learned that I like the way the person that I am no matter what I look like. That in the end is priceless.

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