The Anti-Jared

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” – Kate Moss I have always hated the quote. It just never made sense to me. It seemed like a distorted view of food. Maybe because I do not know or will never know what skinny feels like. To me, skinny is three things… 1. A picture of myself in the past where I “looked” skinny but at the time felt overweight. 2. When I lost weight and someone would describe me. “Wow! You got skinny!” 3. Not me For the longest time I would chase skinny. That is until I realized what healthy is. What muscular is. What awesome is. Those became my achieved goals. But I have made fun of the quote for quite a while. Here is a woman who does not know what obesity is telling people that food is not worth it. Girls will read this quote and [...]

“Right now we are not looking for a writer, but we would love to feature your weight loss success story…” That is the response I have been getting lately. I do not want anyone writing my weight loss story. I want to do it. Here is the thing, my weight loss success story is not losing 221 pounds in a year. It is finding hope… This is me at the beginning of 2012. Yep, the success story that lost over 200 pounds. When my life was turned upside down in July of 2011 I tried so hard not to turn to food. I was good for a few days. Then I ate. And ate some more. And ate a whole lot more. I worked out every day. I would burn over 1000 calories a workout. And honestly, I would have been well over 300 pounds if I did not work [...]

Today was a normal Monday for me. I woke up and got my son ready for school. I did a few things around the house for my wife. Then she took him to school and I went to the gym. When I got to the gym I went on the Stairmaster like I have done for a couple of years. Some people hate the machine but I love it. I love it because I could not climb stairs when I was 420 pounds. I could not do a whole lot when I was 420 pounds. But I worked real hard at the gym just to be able to get the courage to go on that machine. I will never look back. When I was on it I was working out next to a woman who I have seen before numerous times. She always smiles at me. She works out very [...]

A lot has happened to me over the last five years. I was 420 pounds and lost in 2008. I decided to lose weight and did so. 221 pounds lost in 52 weeks. But I thought the marathon of weight loss was over. All it did was give me an entry ticket into life. The life I want. I learned that I am a decent writer. Not bad being the third best Posnanski who can write. I learned that I am a good dad. I learned that I have some talents I did not before. I also learned that tragedy is not an excuse to fail. I have another story I am going to start telling. I think people need to know that successes also have flaws and setbacks. The key is to learn from them. I was able to speak representing Attune Foods in San Antonio, TX for the [...]

Life is funny. Sometimes you think you want one thing when you actually do not want it at all. Sometimes you think you know all the answers when you do not even know what the questions are. Well, that is me. That is my life. I lived a life of obesity. Childhood obesity, teenage obesity and overweight obesity. I have lost and gained weight my whole life. When my wife met me, I just lost 85 pounds. She had no idea that I was a food addict. I was not morbidly obese. She had no idea that I would go out to eat with her and eat more. She also had no idea I would get to over 400 pounds. But it all changed in 2008 when I decided to make more of a life change than a diet. What started out as portion control quickly turned into a different [...]

I have gotten a lot of emails asking if I stopped blogging. If everything was okay? I have not updated this blog in over a month. I blog that I spent a decent amount of money in designing and getting it switched to WordPress from Blogger by a huge blog talent. A blog that I love. I am not as much of a blogger anymore. I enjoy writing little stories or talking about the past. I like quick quotes I think of or short motivational anecdotes. The truth is I did not stop writing. I write each month for Attune and Anytime Fitness. I have only begun. I have switched over to Facebook. Most people have seen my page. Some do not like Facebook. But I have always been a “off the cuff” blogger. I never planned blog posts. I never waited to share news. I would just type and [...]