Thin guy in a fat guy’s body
Some people have expressed incredulity at my assertion of having shed 26 pounds in 90 days effortlessly, without dieting. Well, fact is, I have and I’m going to tell you more about it and show you some photos here.

Fatboy at his fattest
My problem is that I love to eat and drink, and because of those self indulgent tendencies my weight ballooned up to 292 pounds.
I haven’t always been fat though, throughout my life I’ve had periods of walking around in a lean muscular body. Within this current decade I weighed in at 185 lbs.

thankfully, this lady loves me no matter my weight
I felt great, exercised almost every day and was in terrific physical condition. The trouble was that I consumed an extremely carbohydrate restricted diet. I was able to do it for years, albeit with regular carb and sugar binges, but it clearly was not a sustainable lifestyle for me, long term. One day I ate an entire pizza and the rest is history, five years later I weighed in at 292 lbs.
The physical demands on a body that weighs close to 300 pounds are frightening. Sometimes it hurt my body just to sleep. I was always tired and never had any energy. I was in my forties and my body felt like it was ninety. My blood pressure and blood glucose levels were through-the-roof and I was taking handfuls of medication every day to control them. It amazes me looking back on it that I was able to accomplish anything in that condition. How much more productive I would have been had I maintained a natural body weight.
I say looking back because while I’m still seriously overweight, in fact clinically obese, I’m taking consistent action to become thin again. These efforts are already showing results and as I sit here today my weight is now 266 lbs. This time I’m using the power of my mind to become thin. Not by exercising will power to restrict what I eat. I’m not doing that at all because I now know that approach dooms one to failure. Instead, I’m reprogramming my mind to “turn off” the fat programs that were driving the behavior that was keeping me fat. I learned this from Jon Gabriel, author of the Gabriel Method. http://bit.ly/xlx37
The day that changed my life
I came upon Jon’s amazing story online. His story is extraordinary and the success he’s had bringing his body under control is truly inspiring. This man weighed 409 pounds when on September 11, 2001 he was scheduled to board a plane from Newark to San Francisco. It was divine intervention that he did not board that flight that day. His scheduled flight was United Flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania killing all on board including 40 passengers and crew and four terrorist hijackers. Shortly thereafter he decided to change his life and went on to lose 225 pounds. Read Jon’s story here; http://bit.ly/xlx37
I decided to take a chance and threw down $39.95 for his book and audio files. I downloaded the mp3s and began listening to them immediately. That was June 2, 2009, about 3 ½ months and 26 pounds ago. I can tell you his method is working for me. The most significant part is not the weight loss, although I feel 1000% better already, its that my blood pressure and blood sugar are both down and are stabilizing and I’m off the blood glucose medication and I’m quite sure I will eventually be free of the hypertension meds as well. Here I am today Wednesday 9/23/09.

just beginning to see results
You too can change your life
I decided to launch http://www.shadow-of-my-former-self.com to document my transformation. This is simply an introduction, the blog has not launched, so don’t go there yet. I will be announcing the launch date. The purpose of the blog is to invite you to join me on this journey. This is an opportunity for anyone who may be struggling with their weight to get Jon’s book and join me in attaining your ultimate body and better health. Join the forum and share your own experiences and we can all help one another. If you’re not yet ready to make that decision I invite you to live vicariously through me as I allow my body to become as I now see it in my mind. I called it shadow-of-my-former-self because in my mind I see this as already accomplished. I’m only waiting for the physical reality to become manifest in my body.
No holds barred on this journey to achieve my ultimate body
I’m going to let it all hang out. What you will get here will be honest and maybe even sometimes a bit raw. Any and all blood, sweat and tears that it may take for me to reach my target weight of 185 pounds will be candidly expressed. I will be sharing the good, the bad and the ugly. And believe me, there’s lots of ugly as you can clearly see in the photos. But there’s plenty of good too, and I’m experiencing it already. I can not only walk again but actually run and exercise. My hope is that you may be inspired to improve whatever it is in your life that may be limiting your future, impeding forward progress or negatively impacting your health. Let’s do it together, learn more here: http://bit.ly/xlx37