(There was no doubt about it.~I couldn’t deny it any longer~It was a fact that was very obvious.} I was in terrible shape. I was very obese and my body was not working the way it was supposed to anymore. It wasn’t a surprise when my physician gave me a long list of all of the issues I was facing. All of them were related to my weight. To put it simply I was eating myself to death.

I couldn’t hide the fact that I was obese from anyone. But what was I going to do to fix it? It took me years to get my body into the shape I was, but I didn’t have years to fix it. I was lost and didn’t know where to turn when I went searching on the internet and found something called the biggest loser forum, where there were chat rooms full of people who were fighting a weight loss battle of their own. I was able to find the support of others and began looking into ways that I could get healthier. The internet did not lack for advice on what a person in my situation should do. I cleared the hurdle of having to choose to lose the weight and was ready to commence my journey.

The first thing I did was to go to my doctor. My physician agreed with the idea to get healthy and helped me develop my plan. Both my doctor and myself decided that I needed to take care of my weight issue now. We decided to try a basic diet and exercise program that would limit the amount of calories that I took in allow me to burn more calories. I stuck to the diet despite my cravings for all the foods that I was not allowed to eat any more, and I did my exercises faithfully every day, even the six pack ab exercises, that were on the video I had found in the attic. Unfortunately, diet and exercise did not seem to be working for me. I wasn’t happy, because despite all of my efforts nothing was changing even though a lot of time had passed by. I was looking for a plan that would work, but I didn’t know where to turn to find one.

I went back to my doctor and told him it was time for me to find a way to learn how to lose weight fast, and what would he suggest that I try next to accomplish this goal since I had run out of ideas. My doctor agreed that the diet and exercise program did not work. The plan was for me to have a stomach stapling procedure. He said this would only allow me to eat small amounts of food at a time. Any time someone cuts into your body there are dangers involved. It would be more dangerous for me to stay as fat as I was. Delaying taking action was no longer an option that I could consider because of my poor health. I took this information back to my family and we decided that I would go head with the surgery.

We scheduled the operation for the soonest possible date and I got myself prepared. The surgery went fine and I came out of it later that day. It took me a little longer to start getting up and moving around. While my body was healing, I noticed that I wasn’t very hungry. I started a fitness regimen as soon as I felt strong enough to do it. I was not going to accept anything short of success with this plan. There was no denying that it was working. The weight was disappearing quickly. I was losing over ten pounds a month because of the gastric bypass procedure. It has been two years since my surgery and I am exactly half the man I used to be. My doctor says I am no longer considered obese, I am just overweight. The health issues I was facing had all been lessened. I am no longer working out by myself, I have been joined by other people that I love. I have taken back my life from the monster that obesity is, and I look forward to never having to face it again.

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