FYI – Just a photo progess update.  I’ll be posting a new weight post later tonight.

Me on 02-24-2009

Me on 04-21-2009

Height = 5’11″
Weight = 376.4 lbs
Blood Pressure = 130/68
Pulse = 76
Gain/Loss = -1.0 lbs loss
Total Weight loss = -28.8 lbs loss

Grrr… Only 1 lbs weight loss.  However, I’m thinking that drinking a lot of water on the weigh in day is probably a bad thing.

Height = 5’11″
Weight = 377.4 lbs
Blood Pressure = 110/72
Pulse = 78
Gain/Loss = -3.4 lbs loss
Total Weight loss = -27.8 lbs loss

*  I’ll start posting pics soon.

Height = 5’11″
Weight = 380.8 lbs
Blood Pressure = 128/62
Pulse = 76
Gain/Loss = -5.6 lbs loss
Total Weight loss = -24.4 lbs loss

Pretty good, considering I was in Austin, TX over the weekend and had a SMALL bit of BBQ… Need to drink ALOT more water— 8 glasses at least… Starting up exercising and cycling around Baton Rouge/LSU.

Height = 5’11″
Weight = 386.4 lbs
Blood Pressure = 130/60
Pulse = 88
Gail/Loss = -4.2 loss

Only lost 4.2 pounds this week; however, I’m just not starting to workout again… Cycling, walking, etc… I think the first week’s weight loss was all water weight… GRRR…  Still, I’m determined.

Height = 5’11″
Weight = 390.6 lbs
Blood Pressure = 120/60
Pulse = 82
Gail/Loss = -14.6 loss

Lost 14.6 LBS in about 6 days!!!!  I feel so much better—and clothes fitting WAY looser.  More updates soon.

Height = 5’11″

Weight = 405.2 lbs — I was actually heavier than this a few weeks before starting.  I lost some weight after being scared shitless about having diabetes.  I am going to try and find some initial MD reports, showing my weight at approx 480lbs.

Waist size (tape measure) = 64″
BMI = 56.4
Waist size (pants size) = 54″ Dockers
Blood Pressure = 130/58
Pulse = 90

Well, the liquid diet starts tomorrow… I’ll be doing my final blood work and DR’s visit. Also, will be picking up my liquids/meals for the week. More to come shortly.

After a follow-up appointment with my MD, I was diagnosed with Type-II diabetes. Not the best news I had on Monday; however, my MD feels it’s completely reversible. So how does this news affect me? Well, NOW I am consciously looking closely at EVERYTHING I eat. I’m finding out that a lot of the food I thought was healthy—or not so bad— is in fact VERY bad. I’ll post more about this later.

So, next week, I start a new dietary program called O.N.E. Weight. It is a physician monitored, liquid diet weight loss program. It is designed to give you a quick-start into losing weight. So, for basically “1″ month, I’ll be on a liquid only diet. Then, “1″ month of transitioning back to healthy food. This, combined with an exercise/education program, will hopefully help me lose around 50+ lbs. We’ll see.

That’s all for now… More to come soon.

-Will