This is a big one. I was hoping to get this one two weeks ago, but as it officially happened this morning, I’ll take it. Since September 1, 2015, I’ve lost over 100 lbs (101.5 lbs, to be exact!).

That brings my overall weight loss to over 120 lbs since my heaviest.

I’m really, really proud of this achievement. I never thought I would be seeing this. I hoped and I was optimistic, but I think that I was also cautiously guarding my optimism because I had failed so many times before in trying to lose weight and to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

So much of what I learned (heck, just about everything) as a kid about nutrition has turned out to be wrong. Even as I was losing weight in the first few months, I was telling Sherry that it all somehow felt wrong. I was eating foods that I was told as a kid in school were bad for me, yet I was feeling better and losing weight. What’s more, the blood test I had after just two months already showed immense improvements in my blood chemistry.

Now, after ten solid months of living the way we do, I can’t see myself ever going back. I don’t ever want to lose control of my health again. I don’t want to return to fat E.J. As my mom pointed out to me last night, I cant’ reverse time or stop aging, but I can keep myself healthy and maybe hold off some of the effects of aging that are accelerated through poor nutrition choices.

And therein lies the most powerful thin about what I’ve been able to accomplish: it was all done through choices in the food I eat and nothing more. Literally. I did the least amount of work I possibly could in an effort to prove to myself that it can be done, and it worked.

Current stats:
Weight: 188.4 lbs (Started 289.9 lbs on 9/1/15)
Body fat: 19.7% (Started 47% on 9/1/15)
BMI: 29.6 (Started 45.4 on 9/1/15)