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Okay here goes the porky story.

Gained over 50 lbs in the last four years, metabolism slowed, I kept eating, thought it was okay to slow down on the exercise. Clothes didn't fit anymore, one old friend called me morbidly obese! At 266lbs! I am 6 feet tall. So this is what I did, starting the second week of June this year.

I decided to eat mostly fresh food. I stopped fast food period. I stopped any soda pop with sugar or anything else, like fruit juice with sugar. I stopped beer. Still have them in the fridge. I stopped desserts.

This is what I started. I can't eat early, I have to be up for awile, 2 hours or so. Banana's, peaches, plums, oatmeal with raisans, fresh ones not canned or processed fruits. I eat them one right after the other if I have to stop my hunger. Plain bagels are good also. I bring one of each in my lunch box to work. I drink diet soda or those fruity water things without sugar or caffeine or water.

Lunches are leftovers from dinners. Each night when I get home I make salad for dinner and work at the same time, putting one in a container the other in a salad bowl, cutting up every vegetable I can find. I take some of those veggies and put them in an aluminum foil sack with marinade or salad dressing. I put in a small potato, peppers of any kind, mushrooms, asparagus, squash, zucchini. I take the small sack and put it on the top rack of the BBQ outside. I take steak or chicken or fish or pork or whatever, even turkey and throw it on the BBQ all on very low fire. I paste it with marinade or something.

Now the best part. I work out while I cook. Light weights, exercise bike right on the patio next to the BBQ. I get a diet Pepsi, even have a shot of Tequila for fun. I do the bike for 3 or 4 minutes at a time. Lift 10 to 25 lb weights. Not really hard. I eat as much as I want, the rest for lunch.

I have lost 16 lbs since I started, didn't think it would work. Had 2 beers and a shot of tequila last night and almost fell off the bike. Now at 250. Next week the 240's!