At My Fattest

I start this blog with an official first weigh in at 216.8 pounds. But that's only because I'm starting this blog with a running (or slowly jogging) start. A few months ago, summer 2009, I was most definitely heavier.

I was heavily stress eating, and I knew that I was overweight, but I was too afraid to step back onto a scale. It got so bad that I started getting winded walking up the stairs in my parents house, and while this may be too much information for some people, I was having trouble wiping myself from the back. That was a terrible, terrible sign.

I attempted to retake control of my weight the year before, but the chaos of my life at the time made me put that goal off to the side. But with these new extreme signs, I knew I had to attempt it again.

This time I wasn't going to be ambitious. I didn't have easy access to a gym, and I didn't even have a Wii to play my copy of Wii Fit with (My old housemate who owned the Wii moved away). So I was going to do my best to lose weight, but mostly through reduced eating and drinking a lot of water, and not attempt to lose weight at 2.5 pounds per week.

I did do *some* exercise. Utterly embarassing had I ever been seen doing it, but I would listen to a podcast on my computer, or watch a video on Hulu, while doing the hula hoop game on Wii Fit, without actually using Wii Fit. I would just stand in front of my computer and rotate my hips, switching directions every minute, and taking a 10 second rest in between each switch, and I would do that for 22-24 minutes. (The length of a half hour show without the commercials.) That at least elevated my heart rate and got me to sweat.

I'm sure it didn't do nearly as well as if I was using the actual Wii Fit, because I had no feedback about how much I was slowing down (which is indicated by the game by showing the hulu hoops about to fall of the character), but it was still something.

I did feel my clothes becoming a bit looser, and after a couple months, I did weight myself, and I came in at 220 pounds. Considering that I weighed even more than that, I would guess that I weighed somewhere between 225-227 pounds. That is the heaviest I have ever been. When I reach my target weight of 185 pounds, I'll have lost a total of 40+ pounds.