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Obese Beginnings
I Have been obese most of my life as a child and an adult. It was not anything I really thought about, it was just a way of life. I was the typical fat child, picked on by other kids, made fun of by adults.
When I started Elementary School I discovered this fantastic place it was called a cafeteria, and they had two older ladies that were wonderful cooks. I would buy my lunch and anything other kids didn't want they would give to me.
My principal once came into my 4Th grade class and asked me to stand up. I wondered why he was choosing me. After I stood up he said " I just wanted to make sure you could get up after all the soup you ate ". That was humiliating to me, But I just smiled and went on with my day.
I always had to wear Sears husky pants as a child and they didn't fit right were always tight under my belly, and I always ended up ripping the crotch out of them, because even tho I was obese , I was a very active child, I played ball, shot marbles played on the swing sets and jungle gyms. I knew I was fat tho and knew that it was not a good thing, kids are honest and cruel ,its just the way it is.
As a fat child you get picked on and have to fight or run, I avoided fights as long as I could but when cornered I was able to hold my own for the most part, not that I am proud of fighting BUT it did keep the bully's away for awhile till they would forget, and my life was easier for awhile.
I mentioned I was an active child , I also learned to read very quickly and became a bookworm,
even at night when I was home I would read under the covers at night with a flashlight, and i school I would cover my text book with some kind of outdoor adventure novel usually with some great outdoors man pitted against the elements and great adversity, it was an escape of sorts I would read and I was that person with the loyal dog.
When you grow up fat and feel like that is the normal you get used to being an outcast by all but a couple close friends. Its a part of life I wouldn't suggest anybody have to go through.
After little league football practice there was almost everyday somebody wanting to fight me, and the only think I can figure out is because I was the fat kid the bottom of the food chain, a target. Like I mentioned earlier I avoided the fights at all costs but sometimes couldn't get away. That's not a fun day when you know at the end of it you are going to have to face a bully or a new bully.
There was this little country store down the road about a mile and a half from where I lived , an older gentleman and his wife made there living there many years Mr and Mrs Byer gave me my first credit probably at 10 years old. I had a charge account and would go in and buy a quart of chocolate milk and the biggest lunch snack cake I could buy, at the time it was a rainbow bakery cinnamon bun type thing with that sugar icing on it, and that filled me up pretty good. My Mom went into the store to try to settle up with Mrs Byer and she told my mother that was between she and I, so that was a pleasant childhood memory, this little old lady was kind to a fat kid.
Meal times at home growing up was a good thing, in the mornings I would get up ahead of everybody on the weekends and pour myself a huge bowl of cereal and when it was gone add more cereal to the leftover milk in the bowl. Dad was and still is a great hunter there was always deer , turkey , and various small game to eat, and I ate my fill I always ate way past the comfort zone, and was always told I had better clean up everything on my plate, and I knew that wasn't an idle threat. I would go to my grandmas house in the morning after breakfast and there was often bowls of cornflakes on her table left untouched other than having the milk poured on them, so I would eat a bowl of soggy sugary sweet cornflakes as a second breakfast and sometimes a big slab of homemade bread with butter she had churned on it.
I was up before everyone on the weekends and out and about, I rode my bike everywhere, or I would go on the hills that surrounds my dads house and swing on grapevines or pick blackberry's , sometimes I would play in the creek damming it up or catching craw fish and minnows, I was very active as a child if I hadn't been with the amount of food I ate I would have been morbidly obese even as a child.
There was no fat people in my family other than myself, I remember my dad making me run around the house to try to make me lose weight , people in that day didn't know about nutrition as much as we do in this day and time.
My Mom would pay me to lose weight 1 dollar a pound and I thought that was a good thing I would starve myself to lose a few pounds and then we would go out and eat to celebrate my weight loss, another great incentive to lose weight, more food, but she felt she was doing the right thing and I loved those restaurant meals , the days before McDonald's and KFC.
That experiment proved money can't buy everything.
FAST FORWARD The Obese child is now 45 years of age and weighs nearly 350lbs. It is just a continuation of my childhood through a few decades of being an adult. There is not a bright future for someone in my situation. High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol , Sleep apnea and joint structure breaking down. The Happy Golden Years are closer to me than my youth is behind me. REVELATION In the middle of the night in my recliner I woke up and there was an infomercial on promoting diet and exercise, not a magic pill or an ab belt, it was plain work and diet. It was regular things that I could do, it didnt involve dancing or fancy moves.I orderd the product, it came and I began to workout and it was hard, I couldnt do one pushup,but I pushed on and eventually mastered the workouts growing stronger everyday. I was still missing a piece of the puzzle though! FOOD The workouts were good and I was getting stronger, but I had no significant weightloss, what could be the problem ? "FOOD" that was it I had to figure out the food, all the exercise with no change in diet was resulting in no RESULTS. I was onto the problem, I had to figure out how to eat, besides stuffing my face. The 40 30 30 diet is what I settled with its 40% carbs 30% protein 30% fat based on complex carbohydrates, not simple, lean meat and fish and fowl, and you usually get some fat regardless so low to no fat works well. CONTEST From that point forward I was a fat burning machine, I lost 100lbs in 8 months and eventually lost 140lbs. I went on to enter this companys transformation contest and in feb 2007 I won 1000 dollars for my transformation and was qualified to win there GrandPrize of 250,000 dollars. That spring of 2007 I was physically able to do a job that I had always wanted to try, I started to work as a caddy at the Homesteads Cascades golf course in Hotsprings VA . Sept 2007 I rededicated myself to my workouts with the contest in mind, I knew that I had three months to work hard and prepare for the competition. I worked hard and kept my diet clean and by Dec I was ready to send new pictures in. I took my pictures and submitted my story with a video and then it was a waiting game. I was in my Den where I do my workouts and the phone call came in, I was guarunteed to win 50,000 dollars with a 1 in 4 chance of winning 250,000 dollars I was ecstatic. The contest was then out of my hands it was up to a vote from an independent panel , the corporation and club members. By the time we all went to Californina for the ceremonys the contest was over, we just didn't know the outcome. The night of the ceremony I was tired there had been so much going on, it was to the point I was exhausted by lack of sleep, all of us contestants had to go on the stage and answer random questions. It was totally unrehearsed as to what they were going to ask us so I was nervous about that. I got through that part of the ceremony ok even though I was scared to death. The next thing was the elimination they called out the names of the two final men and the two final women, I let out a big sigh of relief when my name was called and I was still in the competition. It was then down to myself and the guy in the 30 to 40 age group. They called out the names of the winners and I heard it but it was like a dream at that point balloons came down but I didnt see them. I had accomplished somthing in my life that most people in there life will never even dream is possible. I had won the GrandPrize. All of this came from the Fat kid in school that had spent the biggest portion of adult life as a morbidly obese man. I am now a different man from the one that started his workouts and couldnt do a pushup. This is just proof that anything you set your mind to is possible and Obese beginnings doesn't have to be the way things end
About the Author
Formerly morbidly obese person, that at 45years old Changed my life and won a national body transformation contest for 250,000.00 dollars. I am now in my 50th year and have maintained my weight loss and am constantly improving my health through continued healthy diet and exercise. www.shrinkwithwink.com
www.mdbwink.blogspot.com
Have you ever put a slab of bacon in your undies just so the dog would sniff your crotch ?
Yes, it's a little game we use to play, but had to stop when she started tying a slab of bacon around herself, expecting me to sniff her.
