How to Lose Weight Fast!!! (MY STORY)

Zig Ziglar once said, “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

Lose Weight Starting Today

This is ultimately what got me started on my journey to becoming to best ME I could become and ultimately learning how to lose weight fast and sustainably. I realized that I would never be what I wanted to be if I never started the process. Sitting on the couch, eating the same old diet, and watching hours of TV was never going to get me the body and health that I desperately needed.

If you are ever going to become the healthy, fit, well version of yourself that you need to become for your family, friends, and, ultimately, yourself, you are going to have to START.

Let today be the day that you START to lose weight! I am here to help you along the way, but you have to do it. Join me as I share about my journey (still ongoing) and the tips and tricks I am using to become the best version of ME and lose weight fast. READ ON to learn about me and my story! I hope you can relate and learn to become the best YOU! This is the story of how I lost weight fast and have kept it off…

Just like most people, I dieted and exercised for years on what many call the “Yo-Yo” diet…lose weight, gain weight, lose weight…and so on

I was an athlete in high school and college in two sports…basketball and baseball. While I was never had the chiseled physique, I was a great athlete. I could run fast, jump high, throw hard, and hit with power and I didn’t struggle to round the bases, or move back and forth on the court for the entirety of the games. I would be able to play a 9 inning game on Friday night, and play in a weekend baseball tournament starting on Saturday morning with ease. My body felt like it was invincible.

In college, I put on some muscle. I ate more, lifted more, and gained more weight. I was getting stronger and enjoying the way I looked and felt.

Sometimes life throws you a big curveball, or two…

I stopped going to the gym at school, adopted a much more sedentary lifestyle, but kept eating at the same level I was before. The weight kept piling on, and the muscle quickly became a distant memory.

Fast forward a few years…intertwined with up and down weight gains and losses.

I got married in 2008 to my best friend, Sarah. After our first 2 children, we decided that we wanted one more child. Three sounded like a great number! Well, God had other plans! At an ultrasound exam, the technician informed us that we would be having Twins!!! TWO babies!!! What??? We were super excited and super scared at the same time.

After telling our families, we quickly began planning and got lost in the calamity of now getting our lives and house ready for two newborns. Every week of our almost 33-week pregnancy was filled with late nights and delivery food. From Cheesecake Factory to Olive Garden, and McDonalds to Starbucks, the pounds began to pile on like never before. My heaviest weight was before was 235. At the time the twins were born, on March 7, 2018, I weighed in at 265 pounds and my blood pressure averaged around 155/90. I hated the image of the person in the mirror. Here is my picture, just a few weeks before Christmas in 2018…

Time for Change…For a Start…

Until Summer of 2022 I kept the weight on for another 2 1/2 years. I was fed up with feeling tired, my feet hurting, and my clothes not fitting, I was having trouble sleeping, walking was a chore, and playing in my men’s softball league was exhausting. A drastic change had to be made or I wasn’t going to have the life that I needed to have for myself, my wife, and my kids.

Immediately I jumped on the internet to my favorite place, YouTube, and began doing research. I watched videos of people claiming to have a miracle cure for weight loss. (Those links are on my website menu). Others seemed as though they never struggled with food their entire lives. I heard countless stories of, just do this one thing, or take this one pill! I sifted through the muck to find the information that I felt was credible and doable. That’s when I decided to put what I learned into practice THAT DAY, I STARTED!

STEADY…Lose the Weight…and Fast!

Remember the story of the Tortoise and the Hare? Who wins? Well, in the story it is the Hare, because of his persistence and perseverance, not his speed. He never stopped moving forward and put one food in front of the other. That was my mindset over the last 6 months. I quickly learned that if I kept moving forward and stuck with the process, I would lose weight faster.

I wished that I could’ve gone to sleep and woken up with my body back in great shape. Not possible! However, I was putting myself in the mindset of GO and seeing results fast! I was losing weight day to day, week to week, month to month, CONSISTENTLY!

Here is a picture of my as of December 2, 2022…

Down 40 pounds! However, I am nowhere near done and still moving forward and that scale is moving downward. I feel better every day, and I am loving the new life that I have CREATED! I’ve been honing in on the skills and information it takes to continue to see results day after day.

Will you join me in my journey and create one for yourself? Let’s do this!

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