Recently, I have gone through a couple of first-time experiences in my life. Or perhaps I should say a couple of firsts that I have not experienced in decades…
For about the last two months of my weight loss journey, I have encountered a problem in my clothes buying process as I have been too “small” for the big and tall department stores and still too big for the regular section of stores that most of you are familiar with. Well, I am proud to say that I am now officially out of the big and tall section and can now shop with the rest of your regular sized folks. Big & Tall sections, DXL, it’s been nice but respectfully, I hope I never y’all’s assess again. I still have a way to go in my journey, but this was certainly a milestone that I have been striving for.
One of the other first-time events also happened a few weeks ago. September 23 to be exact. As most of you know, I have been a big guy all my life however I have not always been fat. I was at my best shape (as a grown man) in my early twenties weighing in the range of 230 to as high as 260 pounds which for some of you might sound like an astronomically high number but keep in mind, I am around six feet tall and have a wide frame, big shoulders and chest, so 260 pounds looked relatively good on me (sporting a 34-36 waist), at least for my non-athletic standards. As the years have passed, I have gained a substantial amount of weight and the days of weighing under 300 pounds, much less weighing 230 pounds seemed further and further away and ultimately, out of reach. Well, as of September 23, I have finally reached what at once seemed like an insurmountable goal and weighed in at 299 pounds exactly. What is even more amazing is my body composition. I looked back at photos of when I weighed 260 pounds, and I am holding far more muscle today as a man in my late forties than I did in my twenties. I am finally starting to bear the fruits of my nearly two-year weight loss journey and goals that I would have said were impossible one and two years ago are now being realized. That being said, the train does not stop, and I will never settle. One hill has been climbed but we still have the mountain to scale, and I don’t plan on taking my climbing boots off any time soon.
The attached image is a pic of me with the Epiq MD team on the set of Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland – in my first pair of jeans and shirt purchased from the normal people’s size section. As mentioned before, my goal is to get in the range of 220 to 240, depending on how much muscle I can build and maintain, while I am trying to lose fat – so let’s get it!
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