Ok, so I’ve toyed around for a week now, more days of eating healthy than not, but it still wasn’t sitting right with me. I needed to do something drastic, something that would make a difference. So this evening I … Continue reading
Where It All Began
I have always had issues with weight. There, I said it and that is the first step, isn’t it? Well, at this moment in my life, it is. I have always been overweight, however, I never thought of myself as such. With my natural charisma I was able to make big cool. To my peers I was “Meat” (they took off the “ball” when we got to high school). When I entered college, I was simply known as “Bigs”, similar to the Notorious One. Even in undergrad, we shortened it to initials only, “B.I.”. I was a main attraction, someone of importance, so being overweight wasn’t an issue. I would play basketball with the fellas and could last just as long as they could. I was involved in sports and never had any issues. I stayed fresh and fly with my clothing and always found clothes to fit. I wore my weight well. No one would ever believe I was 300 pounds, not even myself. That was until I glanced at the scale on the hospital bed I was attached to for a full week. At that moment, it all became real. I was obese and needed to own up to it.
So here I am five years later and I am looking to rebuild my temple. When I came out of the hospital my quest to lose weight commenced, and I was pretty successful. I actually made it back to 240 pounds, my weight when I entered college. Before the drinking, before being lazy, and before eating at 2am became a habit. So why am I doing this now? On a daily basis I motivate and inspire students. Well let’s just say one has inspired me. That, along with a few suits fitting a bit too snug, are motivation enough. I have to stop the excuses and do what is needed to make sure my temple is sturdy and one that functions properly. So I begin this journey, I will have to eat differently, think differently, live differently, and believe differently. I will always be Bigz!
My goal is to return to 240 pounds one year from now. I want to begin by losing 15 pounds by the end of 2012. The vision is there, I am building my support network, and most importantly, I have received the go ahead from God. The journey begins…let’s see how I do.
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Rebuilding My Temple 