The Confessions of Public Fat Guy #1

Welcome. If you are reading this by accident or because I told you about it or someone else told you about it, welcome. This will be a place for me to come and talk about my life and times as a fat guy. I will try and update it everyday, but I won't promise anything. I will give updates on what I'm doing in my mission to not be fat guy anymore. I have come to hate being fat and as most people who are fat  I'm tired of it. But this time I'm going to do something about it. I want this to be a place where I can write freely about being fat and also a place that for one reason or another, can help to keep me accountable. I will be telling of the things that I do to exercise and I will also be just talking about my life in general. But I will mainly focus on the facts of being a fat guy. 

So, to start off with. I'm about 100 pounds over the weight that everything seems to think I should be at. This morning I weighed in at a whopping 309 LBS. This is down about 6 pounds from my heaviest weight. But I'm starting to gain back the little bit that I've lost. In the past several months I've fluctuated between 300 and 315. So, I've had my ups and downs. 

I am turning 27 this coming Saturday and maybe that's what's bringing this new sense of dread and action about my weight. I feel a whole lot older than my 27 years, and I think this has a lot to do with my extra weight. I have extremely bad knees and while I do know that I've done a lot of damage to them in my life on my own, I also know that my weight just adds that extra kick to my knees when they aren't having a good day. I hear this voice in my head saying that if I don't do this now, I'll never do it at all. I don't want to spend my whole life like this. I want to get back out and enjoy life like I used to. But I can't seem to because I have to energy or strength to do anything.

So, that's a little about why I'm doing all this. Now, I'll tell you a little more about what I'm going to be doing. At least 6 days a week I'm going to be going for a walk. I started this last Saturday by walking for 15 minutes than walking back. Then today when I got home from work, I went and did the same walk again. I figured out today that it's about 1.5-2 miles total. So, I'm keeping up a pretty good pace during these walks. Keep in mind that I'm 100 pounds overweight and extremely out of shape so these walks aren't at anyone else's idea of a good pace. But they do take a lot out of me. Close to the end of my walk today I felt some severe pain in my chest. I slowed down and it went away. But it was just another sign that I really need this more than I know. Keep in mind it's close to 90 degrees out today and the sun was blazing away in the completely clear and beautiful blue sky. 

I will also be trying to add some other things into my workouts, but not just yet. I will also be making my walks longer as we go along. I might go up to 20 minutes out and then back next week. We'll see how it goes.

Well, that's it for today. Here's to no longer being the fat guy.

~pfg#1