Food addiction is like any other, very hard to quite or adjust your habits. Never had a huge weight issue but I did loose 25+/- lbs at my new job at Cost Co. I was the new kid (44 yrs old) and they put me out on the lot pushing carts. You would be surprised how much weight can be lost in 100 degree heat over 3 months

Not to make light of the problem, but Gabriel Iglesias says there are 6 levels of 'fatness"

Big
Healthy
Husky
Fluffy
DAM!!!
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I'm familiar with the phenomenon. I graduated high school at 140 lbs. I went to work at the Pep Boys DC in McDonough, GA right after and got down to 125 pretty quickly, despite eating Waffle House almost every night after work. The shift was 11 am "until", and the place had no AC, so it was always pretty hot in there. It was common for new employees to pull half a shift and then just leave. I left when it was time for college to start.

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I'm one of the poster-children for improved lifestyle effects. I wasn't too bad off, but I'm 6'2" and was 270 at my heaviest. Had hypertension, bad cholesterol, aching knees, blah blah blah

I needed to be under 200lbs to race motorcycles. I started running, eating right (another shout out to the "no deep-fried foods" crowd)..and started doing things I only dreamed about. I stopped in at a local boxing gym after reading an article in the local fishpaper, fast-forward two years and I'm fighting veteran class in Golden Gloves / USA Boxing. Also doing any triathlon that fits my schedule, I've always loved swimming. Last summer I had a bit of a problem with not eating enough, and I started going into regular ketosis. Was down to 170lbs and @ 6'2" with a large frame, I looked pretty sick.

You'd be surprised what happens when you get yourself into shape - knees start working correctly as they get strong..all the other plethora of ailments I had just disappeared. The only exception was the hypertension - that turned out to be hereditary.

But yeah, when I see other people in the same place I was, and worse, I feel horrible because past poor eating habits/sedentary lifestyle...it's a choice. Most people choose to be like that - as someone else posted, it's no different than alcohol or drugs - a slow suicide.


FAT Stimpy451 circa 2005 - ~270lbs and really bad long hair braid



Smaller Stimpy451 with stepdaughter ~175lbs 2009

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Good to see you lost the really bad long hair braid.

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It's very funny that you mentioned that. It was one of my "motivators" to lose the weight (and the hair braid - I was growing it to donate to "Wigs for Kids" because a friend of mine had a daughter with lymphoma and lost all her hair)

i think the hair braid accounted for about 2lbs

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I had the exact opposite problem, but the end result was still the same.

I know a few of you meet me at the GTG in September a couple of months ago. For those that didn't I'm 6'00 weighing in at 160lbs.

For many many years I weighed consistantly 150 lbs. That's fine and all with me since I don't strength train or do much energy exertion.

My freshmen year of college was bad however. The food in one of the dining halls is abhorid. So bad I never eat there anymore. This was the closest place to my dorm though so convinence over came me.

Well in the course of a month I notice that I was eating less and less. I eat till I am comfortably full, but my appetite would be gone after 4 bites. I ended up going on my friends scale and freaked at my weight LOSS of 5 lbs down to 145. For someone as tall as me that was unhealthy.

I started going to the gym and doing strength training (cardio only in warm up). That was the best thing I did for me. My appetite returned and I'm at a healthy 160 lbs.

I've been lazy and haven't returned but my New Years Resolution to never work out again might change that!

Instead of doing cardio guys for weight loss, consider strength training. You burn fat during the work out, but afterwards when your muscles are repairing you will continue to be burning calories.

80 lbs of fat and 80 lbs of muscle are two entirelly different things. Muscle looks so much better!

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There really is stuff you can do. The cycling world has tons of examples where people rode hundreds of pounds off their bodies. Google LFOAB for example.

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Brother of a guy my wife works with, age 40, 5'10" 400+ lbs. Kids found him dead in the bathroom. He left behind two young kids.

There really is stuff you can do. The cycling world has tons of examples where people rode hundreds of pounds off their bodies. Google LFOAB for example.

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