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My last weigh in was a good one. I finally broke through my plateau of about nine months and lost 10 more pounds between January and April. My body composition showed that I lost 9 pounds of fat and one pound of muscle. My doctor was very impressed and happy to see these numbers because it was fat that disappeared.

I have walked 18 holes on a par three course and plan on trying to walk nine holes on a short regular sized course this coming Sunday. I have improved my golf game and continue to pursue it with a passion. My friends Randy and the Grizz (Eric Driessen) have been great at helping to get me free lessons. They say that they do it because they want to support my cause. It's something they feel like they can support. It means a lot to have friends like that; I am blessed to have them!

The hits just keep on coming, I have achieved my first goal of getting back to the weight I started at back in the mid 90's of 613 pounds. I lost 127 pounds to accomplish that goal. My second real goal was to get back to the weight that I quit dieting at back then of 537 pounds. I have now achieved that goal since my last weigh-in was 539 pounds. I outlasted the long nine-month plateau this time and that is a huge accomplishment. I was starting to feel like some, people doubted me. I knew I was doing all that I possibly could though. I have been measuring and accounting everything I eat and exercising every day. I could see and feel differences in my face and body. My mobility, stamina, flexibility, and endurance have all improved immeasurably compared to this time last year. I have now lost 201 pounds to date! Wow, that's how much I weighed in eighth grade.

My friend Randy and his son helped me cut up logs and clear part of the beach this year. But, I cleared almost all of it my self in about a week. There were about 50 wheel borrow loads of debris and what seemed like thousands of sticks and twigs entwined within the debris. It was a very big job, but I handled it. I could have never even thought about attempting such a feat last spring. I am kicking some serious ass right now! I am over half way to my goal of losing 400 pounds without gastric bypass surgery. I have climbed the mountain and reached the summit. Now, I am starting my decent to the Promised Land. I'll get there. I don't care how long it takes. I will reach my goal.

When I think back to my starting point of 740 pounds, and how helpless I was and how hopeless and worthless I felt. It brings out a heavy heart and it's hard to even write about. That first trip to the hospital to see the doctor was so humiliating and embarrassing that even now as I write this I well up inside. Being hauled up to the floor that Dr. Wisse was on, on a clinic day, meaning it was standing room only. Two petit Asian women were rolling me in on a wheel chair that was a double wide. People had to be moved aside so that I could get through. All the looks and comments I got. Made me feel about as low as I have ever felt in my life, but, walking under my own power every three months along that same path. Knowing that I have lost over 200 pounds, is the absolute best feeling I could have ever imagined? As I laid in my hospital bed two years ago not knowing if I would ever be able to have the life that I am now getting back, inch by inch, pound by pound. It was a sad sorry existence. But, through it all to this point, I have never given up. And for that, I am so damn proud of myself that it just beams from head to toe.


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