100lbs down! Quite a few to go. 27M 6'7" 726.2lbs
Current photo of me at 726.6lbs (rounded up)
Attached are 3 photos, 2 before and after (current) photos and a graph displaying what 2024 looked like for my weight, starting at 833.6lbs in January and ending at ~726lbs
My Stats:
27M 6'7" Start: 833.6lbs Current: 726.2lbs Goal: Not sure around 300lbs probably
STORY TIME:
Hello all I just wanted to share the most success I've ever had losing weight for more than a short time period. In August I fell, hard. This got me mentally to adjust I needed a change and immediately all tools and options were on the table and ultimately I landed on Zepbound as my tool of choice. A week later I had my first box of Zepbound and took my first injection on August 16 2024. I've not really been dieting or counting calories, I just eat out a lot less and am normally not super hungry. One of the best things Zepbounds done for me is get rid of that late night hunger and need for food which usually got sorted out with delivery.
How does someone get to 833.6lbs? Dude I don't know, laziness + money + addictive personality? Doordash is how I got here, I was ordering 2-3 times a day on average and to justify the fees I started to order more than one person should ever eat. I'd order a meal + another entree or something at the start but at my worst an order could look like 4 chicken sandwiches with 3 large drinks. It was spiraling. The fall I had the week before I started Zepbound helped me kinda pause this habit. I realized, hey I'm killing myself doing this. I was carrying a chickfila delivery to my desk and tripped on the desk mat, I remember thinking, oh fuck I'm falling, oh no my food, oww that fall really hurt, oh fuck how do I get up? I was on the ground for about 30 minutes and finally decided to crawl to my bedroom and use the bed to get myself up off the ground. After getting up finally, I went back to my desk picked the food up and ate everything.
To get this big something has to be broken.
I will say another big reason for this sticking and even still being on Zepbound is my family. They are willing to do stuff with me and I have an electric wheelchair we can take places, it started this past summer with us taking the wheelchair to a casino last minute and having a blast. That got repeated about 10 more times through the year and I loved it, getting out, doing stuff, so much fun. I ended up taking the family to a Cowboys game for my birthday and we had a blast with the handicap seating area. So much fun that I took us all to a Mavericks game on Christmas day, so much fun. All this to say, a combination of good events has led me here, getting out, doing things, seeing a potential life outside of my house and then a hard fall that scared the shit out of me. All of this together got me thinking about what my life could be and how I didn't want to die yet. Zepbound happened and we've been off to the races.
It's officially been 145 days and I've lost 107.4lbs in that time. I will say there has been some slow down in November and December, I used a tough project at work and the holidays as an excuse to start falling back into bad habits but we've shut that shit back down a couple days after Christmas. I don't know what the future holds for me, but one things for sure... I will be 699lbs again, I will be 599lbs again, I will be 499lbs again. These arent't ifs these are WHENS.
Thanks yall, open to questions or whatever, I attached a before and current photo for comparison, I'm gonna be honest I don't see much difference, which to be fair, I guess makes sense, I've only lost ~13% of my starting body weight. If yall see something, let me know, but so far, same size shirts, same size pants, just feeling better.