Starting the journey.

Today marks the begining of a healthy me.  Well, the journey begins again.  How many more times can I start this weight loss journey?  I have started and stopped so many times I have loss track.  But this time its different!  Yes it is.

A little background, I am 44 years young and am married with 2 children (both teenagers...help me!!!).  I have a black lab named Shasta.  I work as an RN Supervisor in a local community hospital.

I have always been "husky".  I stand 6ft 4in tall and stopped growing at age 12.  I have also been a good size guy but never overweight.  I was in the Air Force as a Fire Rescue Specialist and worked every other day.  This continued later in my adult life when I was biking everyday.  I then started working nights in a hospital as a lab assistant and stayed on nights most of my adult career.  Both as a lab person and as an RN over the past 25 years I have worked nites a majority of the time.  With this being tired and not sleeping, I became last active and eating lousy.  I would eat foods like chips and pizzas and galoons of soda pop to help stay awake.

Well zoom ahead and now I am 44years old and obese.  I think the turning point for me the other day at work.  Being the on-duty nursing supervisor I am responsible for helpong run a code blue team when a patient is in crisis.  I was on one wing of the hospital when I heard the overhead page "Code Blue Ambulatory Surgery".  Ambulatory Surgery was clear over on the other side of the hospital.  So, I ran (yeah big man running look out!) and arrived at the code and help bring the patient around (she was okay) and after the code I was helping the nurses clean everything and assisting writing up the reports when I heard on the nurses say "I thought we were going to have code Steve".  WHAT????  I knew I was huffing and a puffing but a lot a people were.  You get a little rush going and again it was a long haul to get there. 

Hello wake up call anyone there??????????????

My weight does keep me from doing things and more importantly it is not healthy.  I need to become a healthy father and husband so that I am around to see my kids graduated and leave the house (YES!!!!!) and get married and becoming the doting grandfather.

So, this "blog" will be a record of my weight loss journey.  So, stay tuned.

hey - welcome..

There are so few of us males here that I am always surprised when I see another - good luck - we have almost the exact same amount of weight to lose to get to our personal goals - the only difference is I have already lost 146 lbs.. so yea - it can be done and good luck.. again welcome to EP..

Steve

You can do anything you set your mind to.

I wasnt a believer in that till just recently when my father shattered his legs in a accident. Hes now walking again after 4 months something that doctors thought would take A LOT longer. I too am looking to lose over 100 lbs. Its going to be hard and tedious but Im here and a lot of other people here are here to talk and guide you through. Good luck with your weight loss!

The good ole wake up call

Nothing like a good old wake up call.  That's what did it for me.  Standing on the scales for my first prenatal appointment with my 3rd child and it showing that I weighed 282.2 pounds.  The next blow was the gestational diabetes diagnoses way early on and being told that it was likley early signs of Type II.  Talk about a slap in the face and one heck of a wake up call.  Good luck to you on your journey!! I do wish you well.

Jenny

Good Luck

Just wanted to stop in and wish you well on your journey.  It will be a long process, but oh so worth it in the end.  Dieting isn't a decision made one day, it's a decision made every day, many times through the day, one healthy choice at a time.  Good luck, it can be done!

good luck!

Good luck on your journey!! This is a great start!

Good Luck

I am a nurse as well, and I know about running when a code is called, the adrenaline rushing through also causes the SOB but also the fact that we are overweight doesn't help, so I am glad that you chose to take your first step to make a change like so many of us have. Good Luck with you weightloss. Hey excellent choice in weight tracker!

Welcome and Good Luck

As another of the few males on extrapounds I too wish you good luck.