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I started out weighing 318 pounds at Dr. Jawads office on November 12, 2010. Since then I had my surgery on November 17. My Body Mass Index was 43. Now it is down to 34.  At work I am a corrections officer. I recently went from Size XXX uniform shrits, I was wearing 3X pants. Yesterday on February 24 I bought a size Large pants. and I bought a smaller belt for work because the old belt wasy way too big. I was running out of notches and the my pants were not belng held up and the tongue of the belt was about 8 inches too long. Really nice benefits.

I started walking like I am supposed to for the 45 minutes a day like we are supposed to. Anyway, I was kind of half heartingly doing the walks until I got an Ipod and wow what a difference. The Ipod has really taken a lot of the exercise out of exercise for me. I got some decent hiking shoes and hiking pants, a good sun hat and On my days off from work I am walking and hiking 10 to 20 miles a day. What a turn of events in my life. I never thought that I would be bitten by the exercise bug, but I have been. I have a heck of a lot more energy.

I used to be a big adventurer years ago when I was younger. I have backpacked all over the Canadian Arctic, lived in Eskimo villages, driven to alaska and live out in the open etc..

FOr the first time in 15 years I am getting that back. My goal for myself is to walk across Florida from St Augustine area to the Cedar Key area all the while using my high quality camera to document the experience.  I really can't tell you how much motivation my weight loss of almost 65 pounds since November has done for me.  

There is a quote in a movie Shawshank Redemption, "Get busy living or Get busy dying."  I am very intersted in getting busy living for the first time in a long time.