First of all let me apologize in advance for any spelling mistakes, I have someproblems in that field. Now to my story.

At age thirteen I noticed that I`m a bit different from the rest of the pupil in my class, at least from the boys - I had feminine brest (gynecomastia). It "ruined" my life I was sure that I am the most miserable boy in the whole world. I didn`t want to see anyone. I started secluding myself.

At age 18 I was shoked to discover that I weighed 210pounds (My height is 5"7) Ididn`t dare to dream about looking for a girlfriend - I turned my whole youthenergy not for first love, but for work - so yeah I was considered good worker...You know that loyal fat form the second floor.

I went to college and frankly it was quite disaster - far from home with frustrating studies I began to eat like crazy - a typical day could end with: huge container of icecream, 4-5 burgers, endless amount of bread, coke, diet coke (2 lit/day), cookies, cakes...You name it I ate it.

I left college and didn`t find job, I slept at days and ate during the nights, my parents were very very scared they thought i gonna die...because very high and unsteady blood pressure. people i was just 22 and i weighed high above 250pounds, but it wasnt all.

Being unemployed I remember myself driving for hours hours...stop only to eat and only if it was drive-in. I remember the face of the cashier girl/boy (justthree-two years younger than me), they had mercy on me - they didnt understand (i think) why does he can not stop?

Know the saying "It is always darkest just before the sunrise" ?

I didn`t stop eating, i was junkie (of ice-cream of course), one day well lts face it - August 2002 it was - so I climbed on the scale and i was terrified - I weighed 286pounds.

WHAT DID I DO?

I talked to myself, I asked my self well it`s 286pounds today and i soon would be 300 and puff I`ll get deadly heart attack or something, and even worth I was ashamed to go out from my house. being unemployed at age 23, living with my parents - I totally desperate.

It was the watershed, turning point, point of no return - You name it.

I was thinking for myself thats right you are fat, you have`nt kissed a girl yet, you didn`t learn, you don`t work --> It was just too much.

I told to myself: okay you life are mess, but let yourself be the same shy-depressed man that you are but with one difference - be a thin and not a fat thats all. No problem I told myself would be solved by being thin, but I would feel better.

This is the most important lesson: dont do it for anyone else but yourself, always remind yourself the belief that You may still be gay in a conservative society, You may still be uneducated in highly educated country, You may still be a virgin while your friends "did it" at 15 or 16, You may be less fortunate, You may continue to think that you were born to the wrong religion-ethnicity etc, But pls promise me to understand that your got to put in your brain that despite the past and despite the fact you are poor-uneducated-unemployed (you can add any shortage you feel you suffer from) you deserve to feel good with you body and lets face it to be 300pounds 24y/o is not fun, actually it was a nightmare.

Practical steps:1. I wrote a diary where i wrote down every thing (every!) i ate, I did my best toconsume about 1500 calories a day.

2. I weighed myself everyday ... everyday and wrote down the development

3. I hiked outside 5 days/week for about 50 minutes.

I Knew that it would take time.

Now 3 years after I lost 117pounds. My weight now is 163 pounds

You can do it! Please do it!



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Yours,

Logan Cohen