Welcome to Our Body Transformations.  It is my hope that my friends and I can build a site where we can share all the effort, will power, and information needed to lose weight.  But the phrase “lose weight” can’t explain to you what we’ve done together.

I started my journey many times.  I’ve been heavy my whole life.  I’ve tried “eating right”, I’ve worked myself like a dog in the gym.  I’ve tried everything under the sun, and still I was heavy.  August last year I was changing doctors, so I had a chance to get my medical records, and take them to my new doctor.  I took the chance to peek inside.  After reading the first page, I thought I’d made a mistake.

I saw the words morbidly obese.  I was hurt.  I was angry.  I actually swore out loud.  I has mad that I couldn’t lose the weight on my own.  I was mad no matter how hard I worked in the gym, I could only drop about 20 pounds.  I was through with trying.

I hit the internet.  I wanted to find a doctor that could help me lose the weight.  I discovered a whole classification of doctor who did nothing more than help people lose weight.  Bariatric Medicine.  After finding that phrase, I started searching for doctors in Charlotte, NC who practiced that type of medicine.

I found quite a few.  I wanted to find the one who was right for me, so I started looking at their websites, I wanted to see what their methods were.  I found some who would give you vitamin B shots, some would give you hormone treatments, some that would perform the different surgical options.  But none of those seemed to address the root issue to obesity.

Then I found one who talked again and again about finding my root issue.  Someone who said you had to change your life in order to take off the weight.  Someone who would help design a diet, find out what issues were standing in my way, and work with me to make the necessary changes to take off the weight and keep it off for good.

I made an appointment, August 24, 2009.  I weighed in at 275.7 pounds.  I had started dieting on my own before that and had come down from 279 (which took all of August to do).  I was 34.8% body fat.  I was just on the lower end of morbidly obese.

We talked for a while about the different times I had tried losing weight.  He asked about my family history.  He asked lots of questions.  Then he started telling me how he planned on helping me.  He gave me some eating suggestions, and he stressed portion control.  He prescribed physical activity.  He also ordered some lab work so he could start searching for the root causes of my problems.

Seven months later I was 202 pounds and 21.6% body fat.  That’s more than weight loss, that is a transformation.  Visit the site often.  We’re going to share everything we can about what it took to get here.  And even after the weight is off, we’re going to share what we do to keep it off.  Most dieters put the weight back on after they get used to the weight loss.

We’re here for each other, and we want to be here for you too!  Please feel free to comment on the stories, and share with us your trials, your successes, your failures.  We can do this together.

Join us, and make this a story of all our body transformations!

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