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It's official! As of the Saturday before last, I officially lost half my body weight! A mere 260lbs to be exact :) and now i'm doing even more that I want to do and planning on even more!
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After years and years of buying the magazines and secretly wanting to do this but never really saying anything or trying to do it. A company called Infinite Labs saw a few pictures both before and afterwards and asked if I would be one of their contestants in a bodybuiding competition that lasts for the next 12 weeks. After careful consideration and getting over that feeling of "being out there like that" I decided I would use this as an opportunity to work on not only my own physical problem areas, but a few of my own mental areas as well. I have started my journey and my Log is kept and viewable here. Here you can view my diet, my workout plans, my roadblocks and my successes and failures.  http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/musclefat2k/ I'm also on twitter and will be tweeting about my process with status updates, pics, weight loss, and daily exercise logs the entire time.  My twitter name is bigjtmoney2k, You can show your support by following me. I'd appreciate that! Here is to us getting to and smashing our goals! Lets Get It! 

Well, i'm 19 months post op now. Coming into my own and enjoying my process. Down 252 lbs and hitting the gym like a madman and absolutely loving it! As far as the scale is concerned, I've been on a month long stall. But i've gone down another pants size. I put on my first pair of jeans size 40!! WOOT WOOT!!!! Huge accomplishment for me! I'm up to 1.5 miles on the treadmill jogging and 3 miles on the elliptical 5-6 days a week. Shirt size is a LOOSE 1XL and I am 18 lbs away from my own original personal goal and 40 more lbs away from my FINAL goal before going into maintenance for life! Planning on having skin removal procedure once I get there. Forget it, I'm going all the way with this. it'll be a lifelong journey realized. Life is so different and the conveniences of life i will never take for granted and will be forever humbled by others going thru their own processes. 

Well, I did it. I made it through One year Post op. My One year date was August 4th, 2011. My new Birthday I like to say. My total weightloss on that day was Minus 212 lbs. Still another 6 months to lose at this high rate that we enjoy losing from, I am going to try to make this thing do what it do! I am 60lbs away from my own personal goal of 250lbs. How did I celebrate? Well, I went to Dillards. They were having their big sale. Items were marked down 50%, and then they marked them down another 40%. I went in and with my NEW SELECTION ABILITY of clothes, I treated myself to EVERY SINGLE 1X Polo and 2x Button down shirt that I possibly wanted! I had such a good time. I am sooo thankful right now. I'm thankful for supportive family and friends, I'm thankful for me putting in time and effort in me. I'm blessed and hopefully I can be able to be a blessing to someone else who needs it. I am the smallest that i have been in 20 years and in 11 more lbs i will have hit a personal milestone that I would not have dreamed of being possible again. There are so many things to look forward to, and i'm going to get busy doing just that! Happy Surgiversary to me!

on May 4, 2011 it will be my 9th month surgiversary.  Currently, I'm down 171 lbs and pretty excited about whats going on. Looking forward to seeing what my own progress and updates for just myself will be by the time the next 9 months roll around. Often questioning am I going to line up and go on with phase 2 of my particular process of the gastric bypass or duodenal switch? Or am I going to try to tuff it out with purely diet and exercise the old fashioned way. Well one thing i can say out loud to myself is that This fight is not one that I want to make on my own. Been there, done that. So we'll see how things go. I still have a good ways to go and I dont think that just my sleeve alone will do it. So, we'll see. I'm also very excited about what's happening with my body right now. All I can see are possibilities. My bottom half is just in charge as it's always been! My top half is pretty small compared to the bottom half and they say that that's how it is for most people. So like i said, we'll see what happens.
I bought an elliptical machine this weekend and it is BRUTAL!!!! That is all

Today is the official 6 month day where finally I can say progress is real and it's happening! I had my gastric sleeve surgery on Aug. 4, 2010. Today I am 133lbs lighter and headed in the right direction on what i am sure to be an overall long journey with many bumps and bruises to come. I'm enjoying being lighter on my feet on the dance floor (swingout), i'm enjoying being able to go to the store and buy a pack of underwear for $4.99 instead of $499.59 at the big and tall store. Im enjoying fitting comfortably in my wife's car with the seatbelt on easily, I'm enjoying the love and support of my family and close friends each and every day. As one who started out larger than most in this journey, I know my road is long, howerver, just one step, one day at a time. Now, we shoot for another minus 100!!!

So, this christmas was a special one for me. I got to spend it with family. My family who is always so supportive of everthing we do as a family, got a chance to see me for the first time since having my surgery last August. First my mom and dad sent me a late birthday present about a month and a half ago as a late birthday surprise (because my birthday is in September) and the surprise were a new pair of jeans (that she guessed the size of) from pictures that I had sent to her already. The jeans were 10 inches smaller in the waist than the ones i wore to work that day. couple packs of polo underwear that were two sizes smaller than the ones I had on, and a couple shirts that were two sizes smaller. Well that was awesome then. However, this Christmas they basically treated me like a MAN DOLL. I loved every bit of it! I got sooo many clothes it was unreal. And of course I had to try on every single item. And i'm sure that many can relate that when you are super big, trying on clothes can be a downright horrible stressful and depressing event. But NOT THIS TIME!!!! WOOT WOOT. But what goes up must come down is super true. By the time I got back home and unloaded I had a daunting task the next day. I was so attached to the clothes that I did have for whatever reason. They fit loose, They were finally too big, They were super super comfortable, They provided a shield, somewhat of a camoflage(in my mind), They COST MORE THEN MOST MORTGAGES, (we all know big & tall is expensive as hell) . It was like I was letting go of a part of me thats been me for the last 20 years. It was kinda sad..... I mean, It's a trip how sooo much emotion can be happening and you dont know it or realize that that is actually what's going on. However, That's the case for me. So as I went through a closet emptying, and a chester draw emptying, The only I could think about was, with God's blessing, I wont have to ever get back here again. Who can I help? And somebody is going to definately be blessed with these clothes and I look forward to that part. Now, My new wardrobe as well as shopping as well as trying on clothes will be an experience that I can look forward to. Everybody count your blessings. This gift that we have recieved is the best gift I have ever received.