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Here's a pic I just took on 1/31/17 as you can tell I'm still fat and bald...all this time I thought skinny would bring my hair back lmao. My current weight is 226 and I'm hoping to reach 200 by my birthday 5/20/1987. Wish me luck, I'll start posting my workouts soon!

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Uhhg...this is a tough pic for me for a few different reasons. First because this was one of my favorite pics with my thunder buddy Gizmo. He's tucked into my shirt because he was deathly afraid of thunder and the only way I could get him to calm down was to be close to me. Unfortunately he passed away and took a piece of my heart with him. I'll miss the lil bugger for the rest of my life, he was one of a kind. The second reason this pic is tough is because I weighed over 300lbs and was riddled with health problems. That's changed since then, but still a reminder of what I was.

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My journey

Hello interwebs, my name is vance, I’m 29 years old and fat or at least I use to be really fat…now I’m just less fat. I started my journey weighing in at a whopping 306lbs and the scary part is, it felt like it happened over night. I’d always been a fat kid, a strong guy(or at least I thought) but mostly athletic fat. I weighed 184 lbs in the sixth grade, ate mostly fast food during my childhood and never really knew what it was to be healthy. Obviously learning bad habits as a kid, led to bad habits as an adult. At one point in time I ate fast food three times a day for a few months…yeah I know I should be dead. Luckily for me, I’m not dead but still pretty wounded. I developed high blood pressure, was pre diabetic, and even developed something called lyphodema (which put me in the hospital multiple times)…anyone enough of my sob story. I woke up one morning and realized I was 29 years old, scared to even look at the scale, was in complete denial about my appearance and couldn’t brush my teeth without my tits jiggling. I finally decided to get my shit together and get in better shape. I’m still not where I want to be but in the last 6 months I’ve lost 70lbs and am in the best shape of my life. I’m not going to lie at first is was hard as fuck! Once I got use to the routine, it became easier etc and I learned to love the process. However I still have a long way to go. I hope to lose 30 more pounds by 5/20/2017 which is my 30th birthday. My end goal is to be as close to 10% body fat and I hope making this blog will help me stick to it. So if anyone’s out there is listening, it’ll be you that helps me make this goal happen for myself.