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My Wieght Loss Journey

My weight loss journey started a month ago. 

I had just been asked for a divorce and decided to move back to the States rather than attempt to forge a new life for myself in Germany where I had been living for the past 20 years. 

I chose June 19th which was both Father's Day and Juneteenth this year to be the day I started to lose the weight. On that day I wished 403 pounds.

It was a combination of things, old injuries from my time in the military had flared up a few years earlier to the point I didnt feel like pushing through the pain to get a workout in. 

Where we had moved to in Germany didnt have a gym nearby and I went on three forms of anti pshychotic medications to treat my schizophrenia. 

I have been told two of those medications 💊 contribute to weight gain which makes sense because in the year and a half that I was on all three forms of medication I ballooned up by an extra 200 pounds.

Walking up and down stairs without a decent amount of incintive had essentially become out of the question. I never really fit in in Germany 🇩🇪. Nothing against the German people, they simply have a personality different to mine and I ended up, for the most part only interacting with people in an official capacity. I had no friends.

A few days before leaving the country my wife who is very physically active was showing off her figure. She had lost 40 pounds and her abs were showing.

When I asked her how she did it she showed me that along with here array of vitamins she takes on a daily basis she was taking fat burners and a tablet she called Orlistat that she had ordered off Amazon.

She gave me an Orlistat and told me to try some before I left.

The next day I blew up the bathroom like the bomb that ended World War 2. I continued to get high on her supply and had lost 8 pounds within 3 days.

Apparently Orlistat, if I remember correctly has an enzyme that binds with fats in the colon that gets expelled quick fast and in a hurry. 

Initially I had a lot of oily discharge and stayed near the porcelain throne like my life depended on it. 

I made certain to stop taking the pills three days prior to traveling to avoid soiling myself or having to go to the bathroom on the plane ride.

Once I arrived in Florida Iooked up supplements with Orlistat in it and found Alli. I'm not sponsored by or endorsing Alli weight loss tablets, its just what I found. I told my sister about Alli and she said they sell them to soldier on post where her husband is stationed. 

That gave me confidence, the fact that Alli is sold to military and passes thier standards of health and safety. So I ordered a bottle on Amazon (all hail Jeff Bezos!)

I have been taking the tablets religiously three times daily and decided to up the ante of my weightloss journey by introducing exercise.

 I ordered a scale that takes my measurements and connects with my smartphone so I could track my progress as accurately and in a detailed fashion as I wanted and then I ordered a smartwatch to keep track of my steps.

My feet hurt, they hurt a lot on most days. I have plantar fasciitis but the weight is more concerning so I decided to take up walking every day.

The first day I started walking I walked 3.2 miles to Publix and had to lay down on the sidewalk several times because of my feet and chronic back pain. 

To my dismay each time I laid down a driver would pull over, concerned that I had had a stroke or been overwhelmed by the heat and I would have to explain that I was ok, just taking a break.

This happened several times over the course of the next two weeks. Me laying down on the side of the road and drivers pulling over, some of them actually getting out of thier cars to take care of me.  

So I changed my pattern went incognito and took a page out of Jacko Willink's book and started walking at 4:30 in the morning.

There is a Crunch Fitness gym in the community where I am staying and their prices are cheap so I decided to join the gym. I can't do squats or any major back exercises but the gym is only 2.7 miles a way and I can do constant movement at the gym for about half an hour then walk back home.

Three days ago or just shy of a month since starting my weightloss journey was the first time I walked all the way to the gym and back without having to lie down. 

I count that as a major mark of progress.

I trolled a lot of apps looking for exercise and weightloss motivation and on the 18th I downloaded StepBet and entered a walking competition lasting from the 18th of July to the 28th of August. You have to walk 6 days a week as part of the challenge and going to and from the gym is perfect as I can get my steps in.

I fluctuate between 383 and 385 pounds this week in spite of continuing to take my Alli on a daily basis. The bathroom emergencies are few and far between in comparison to that first week and the numbers on the scales aren't dropping as drastically but I am taking a daily constitutional aka bathroom break of some significance on a daily basis so I measured myself and put those stats in the app for my scale.

All in all I have lost 20 pounds in a month and walking a somewhat far distance has gotten slightly easier. 

This I would consider to be a great thing. 

I am keeping progress pictures of my weightloss transformation on my OnlyFans account. Sorry no spicy pictures. So far I only have one fan and no subscribers.

Anyways thats my story about losing weight this year. Thanks for reading.