Well this is my first blog. First of all, my name is Harry West, I am 31 years of age, I am married to my beautiful wife Lytissha and a proud father of 7 year old twin daughters and one on the way. I am doing this because I need to give my family a future, on that involves their father/husband being healthy and alive. Also Shawn Tyler is an inspiring person to see that how he lost all that weight and I want to follow in his footsteps in leading a healthier lifestyle, and I thought posting a blog was a great idea in keeping updates handy. I just created this blog over the weekend getting ready for my big start on weight loss so I can keep myself pumped and show people that they can do it too just as Shawn did.
My Background of being overweight started back in High School. For the Longest time since say 3rd or 4th grade I was put on Ritalin, a drug used back then for ADHD kids. Well the side effects of this drug to say was to suppressing my appetite and so therefore I didn’t eat much till I got into high school. After I got off the drug, you guessed it… MY APPITITE! It went through the roof, and before I knew it, I was starting to gain weight. By the time I reached the end of my high school, I reached to the size of 2x (don’t ask how much I weighed, I think gaining weight also effects your memory too, lol).
Now after I left high school I went on to college (college food is really not healthy). For the next 5 years it took me to get my 2 year associates, I also started to eat more since I was close by fast food joints. That’s where I met my wife and so on, but that’s when I started to gain more weight and by time I left college, I gained more pounds and was up to 350 pounds.
Afterwards I started working to help my “fiancé’s” family and we eventually got married and at that time I was well over 400 pounds unfortunately. I do thank God everyday for giving me a Wife that really looks at the heart and not the body. She has blessed me with encouragement many times. So as you can guess by the point I moved into my own house in 2008 I was borderline 4XLT/5XLT depending on who makes the clothes. I knew I had to start losing weight, so I started to take the stares at my work place and do more walking when I got the chance. I really started to watch what I eat mostly over exercising about a year and a half ago. So half heartedly I started to lose weight just because of the fact that I wasn’t consuming enough calories to maintain the weight I had.
Hope you enjoy and gain confidence to your healthier lifestyle, as I will over the course of my goal.
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