A Diary of a 500 Pound Man

Here I am about 3 weeks since my last post and I speak the same thing I have for a while now. Weight loss and Therapy go hand in hand. Let's be honest, We are Obese for a reason. For me it is food addiction and emotional eating. I tend to eat when I feel bad, sad, mad, happy, etc. As I was gaining my weight I never thought to work on it mentally as well. I was in therapy the majority of my life but we never discussed my weight besides for the small talk about needing to lose weight. We never talked about why I was so big just that I needed to try and lose weight. That was it and for a long time I believed I could handle this myself. Truth be told I thought of weight loss as a simple eat less and exercise scenario and it worked once. I lost over 100lbs when I was 17. Not sure how much more than 100 it was because no scale my Doctors had weighed past 400 at the time. So Why was it so easy at first but so hard now? Well it's because losing is easy when you're in the right mi

I have been doing a lot of research on the subject of Intermittent Fasting ever since I saw a documentary on YouTube called Eat, Fast, and Live Longer. This film followed Dr. Michael Mosley on his journey to find the healthiest way to reverse illness and help increase his life. In the film he ventured to America where several Doctors are doing testing on the effects of fasting. Dr. Jason Fung found that fasting in mice increased life expectancy by months which equaled years in humans. Another Doctor named Dr. Krista Varady was doing studies on Alternate Day Fasting which lead to weight loss. After visiting with both of those Doctors Dr. Mosley tried fasting. First for 3 days and next for alternate days. He found that fasting improved his blood levels but didn't last when he started eating normally again. Only lasted a few weeks at best. So he decided to do what he deemed the five and 2 diet. He would eat normally for five days out of the week and fast for two days out of the we