Epic_Otter

It's been almost one year since I got really serious about my fitness and health I started on May 25th/26th 2015 weighing 283 pounds. I was feeling down about not meeting my goal for the year and not working out much recently because ive been sick and run over by impending finals and projects. But rather than beat myself up I decided to brag about my progress so far... a way to remind myself that ive achieved a lot in the last year even if not necessarily my specific goal. Today I weigh 210 pounds. I've gone added sugar free, lost 73 pounds, three sizes, several inches in key areas and I've officially run three 5k's in the last two months. I really like the way the finishers medals look hanging in my room. I imagine its how id feel about shiny dragoscale trophies! There are a lot of things that have changed for me and I've still a long way to go. My next goal is a half marathon by this time next year and to lose the last 54 pounds. I think it may be time to start lifting weights? I don't take a lot of pictures of myself especially recently :-) but I put up my best then and now.

Short and sweet........ On 5/21/15 I stepped on a scale... I weighed 283 lbs. On that day I committed to 90 days processed sugar free (a serious education). I have been, Sugar Free, essentially processed food free for 79 days as of today 8/9/2015 I weigh 244 lbs. totaling a 39 pound loss in 79 days.

I am a super sad Otter! So my new diet has me feeling great! I don't crave candy or soda or bread at all and I have been holding strong for about 4 weeks now. My clothes are fitting better, I can actually button my pants! And I have amazing energy, I am taking the hill to class with out hesitation, and I "feel" smaller. But I had to go to the dentist this week and they insisted on putting me on a scale what one has to do with the other I don't know.....but what I saw there made all the great feeling and perceived progress vanish in a moment. I am in worse shape than I thought. So my question is: Do I trust how I feel and how my clothes feel or The Scale?

So first love this site! First one of its nature to make sense!, About me, Video game playing, robot building, rocket designing,outside the box, Loki-esk Inventor and Super Nerd. Love to solve problems and challenge the world to think. Also love a good challenge! As for fitness well....I've been really not so good the last few years.I thought my weight gain was the culmination of a couple bad breaks(literally), age and university life. I immediately jumped on the healthy diet band wagon and kept gaining weight, then I jumped on and off again a few more times. when I was 28 they removed my gallbladder because of the alien pain living in my chest and stomach I was experiencing and put me on a diet of acid reducers and proton pump inhibitors and demanded the healthy diet which only seemed to make things worse. I have been struggling with fatigue,hair loss, loss of girl functions and other crap. I am moving into the final couple of years on my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with Computer Science Minor, all while looking forward to my graduate degree and I have been struggling with focus despite a desperate cardio routine and eating "healthy". A couple of weeks ago I had another bad attack of the weird stomach business I have been dealing with for years and decided it was time to start looking at the discarded options when going healthy. I landed on the Paleo diet. I went all the way with only one or two minor things that skirt the rules of the diet. I was skeptical about the amount of fat and meat involved but I figured it wouldn't be very sporting to dismiss it off hand. I have been eating it for two weeks now. All I can say is "Holy Cheese Snacks!" I have stopped taking the proton pump inhibitors and all antacids. I only want to eat twice a day( not starving myself, just not Hungry) and while I haven't dropped enough weight to write home about things are definitely changing shape. I decided to join this forum because the hamster wheel isn't working for me. I am so sick of the gym day after day and I am looking to learn some different ways to do what I have been doing fruitlessly in the gym for ages now. I am super lucky to be attending a university that has lots of open space and trails surrounding it not to mention the whole Pacific Northwest to play in!. Looking forward to this journey for the first time in a long time!