Tyler’s Success Story
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My name is Tyler, I’m 23 years old, 6 feet and 2 inches tall, and I didn’t know how much I weighed. I didn’t own a scale that had the structural integrity to weigh me (most scales have a 300lb limit). I was considered by the American government’s health standards to be morbidly obese. I eventually found out I weighed 344 pounds.
My weight was literally off any Body Mass Index (BMI) chart I could find.
I started my new healthy lifestyle on January 2009. A life where I can take my shirt off at the beach. A life where I’m free to sit in a normal chair without it squeaking for its poor little life. A life where I can walk down my driveway without being winded. A life where I can see my daughter marry her high school sweetheart.
A life where I’m not extremely obese.
A year later I had lost 125 pounds.
I did not go on a diet or exercise program, I transitioned into a healthy lifestyle.
What’s the difference?
Diet/Exercise Program
When you go on a diet you only eat certain foods and you eliminate pretty much everything else. You go to the gym like a caged hamster every day. You hate the rules, restrictions and the boredom.
With a healthy lifestyle, I ate foods that I couldn’t when I was dieting. The old diets eliminated them, my new healthy lifestyle does not. I limit foods now, but if I still want a cheeseburger, or chicken wings and fries, I’m going to have them.
I started living a healthy lifestyle, not forcing diet and exercise into a bad one. That’s is how I was able to lose 125 pounds by eating and drinking anything I wanted.
If you want to check out all that I have accomplished go to 344pounds.com. This is a blog that helped me do three things. For starters, I used it to keep track of my weight loss journey; one day, when she’s old enough, I’ll show it to my daughter and tell her that “this saved daddy.” Secondly, I wanted to help others who are trying to lose weight; I want people to learn from my successes, as well as my failures.
Lastly, 344pounds.com is a way to keep myself personally accountable to my friends and family (who know about this blog), as well as complete strangers. I know I have people counting on me this time and watching my every move; and even though I’ve let myself down with multiple diets before, I won’t let everyone who knows me, cares for me, and loves me down.
