How to lose weight.

No, really.

I used to be overweight. Not just a little. When I’d walk down the street, people would go “Damn, that’s a fat ….” (you can fill out the dots with some creative swearing. I’ve heard them all).

At my highest level of corpulence, I weighed in at a 145 kilograms, which equals about 320 pounds for everybody on the other side of the Atlantic. I’m roughly a 193 centimeters tall (6.3 feet), which left my BMI at an alarming 38.9 (with 30 being the “obese” level). So the people on the street were more than right.

People often ask me how I got so corpulent. My answer isn’t laden with lame excuses. Not anymore at least. I became a pot-bellied burger gobbler because I ate. I ate a lot. I ate a lot, and as often as I could.

No exercise apart from walking a couple of feet to school, university or the supermarket. I can’t exactly recall when this started, but by judging photographic evidence it started during my tween years. And from that point in time I just grew, and grew, until one day I lifted my chubby feet onto the scale for the first time in years. And then it hit me.

You will die of heart disease or worse before your 30th birthday.

You could read the entire artilce where it was first published on Medium here: https://medium.com/gethealthy/how-to-lose-weight-32780698232#.gi0dkl772

image was also obtained from the same Medium account : https://medium.com/gethealthy/how-to-lose-weight-32780698232#.u76w9bnex