When I first started taking exercise seriously in February of 2006 I was right around 163lbs and almost 24% body fat. At the end of that year I was weighing in around 172lbs but had reduced my body fat to 6%. Over the next two years I fluctuated and eventually bulked to 203lbs at 13.4% body fat on March 4, 2008. For that year I focused on maintaining the   More...

I've been overweight since the age of 7. Everyone in my family was overweight, so people just chalked it up genetics or to being 'big-boned' or whatever the euphemism of the day was. I hated the way I looked, but I thought there was nothing I could do about it. I managed to keep my weight under some control until after college, when it really exploded upward. Finally, I reach   More...