06-25-2020, 11:53 AMGeekusoid Wrote: Glad to see this thing rolling again.  I was asking in Ana's LR about doing something like this after I first got in and it was shrugged off :eyes:.

I've been fighting weight since 2011, after I realized how much I had been slacking off since college.   I had mostly been fighting weight between 270-290, which is a bit for my height.  In 2017 it all came to a head when I weighed in at my Sis-In-Laws house, on a whim and saw 315.  It was October 15th, 2017...and I decided then and there I needed to make a change.


I started using WiiFit, which was fun and gamifying it was the best part of keeping me on track.  By November 1 of 2017 I was down to 300.  15 pounds in 15(ish) days.  By christmas I was down to 289, so another 11 pounds.

Feburary 2018, I signed up as a volunteer firefighter and was down to 280.  By my birthday in 2018 I had gotten down to 271, my lowest weight in years.   A total of 44 pounds lost.  I lost my dad that december to a heart attack...and for a while the only things that kept me focused were the regular weight lifting and monday night training at the FD.  Also knowing that I would be starting my year of instruction to be a certified FF was in January...I kept it up, not just for me..but for him.

I hovered right around 270 the entirety of 2019, which was alright and fairly easy when twice per week you had FF class that was burning almost 2k calories in a 4 hour period (think HIIT on steroids).  Then I graduated, and stopped.  I'm not sure why I did.  Lost motivation?  Started letting everything I was blocking start coming back (stress / loss of parent / etc)....and so here I am, June of 2020...back at 283.  13 pounds heavier than what i was at previously.

I need to get back on the wagon, but in a house of 3 kids I have practically 0 accountability...aside from myself.

I originally had a lofty goal of hitting 220...then I started listening to the American Glutton podcast, with Ethan Suplee.  Yeah, this guy



In case you haven't seen him lately, this is what he looks like now:



He's about 240 pounds in this picture.

So i've dropped my goal to initially hit 260 now instead of all the way to 220.  Again though, getting myself to do the work...the accountability is probably the hardest part.

You could create some weird ass, very specific form of accountability here. Not really accountability, idk just like something to think about. There's some potential of your in-laws seeing you one day, they ask what happened to you or whatever, so you tell them their scale is a fuckin bro. An absolute g, who told you what's up. The scale is what generated new information which set you on the path.

Can be genuinely grateful the scale was there. Probably manufactured by those bastards at Kholer, but still thinking of that moment in your in-laws house when you knew can be powerful.