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I can definitely admit (but, I don't want to brag at all) that I noticed a huge significant difference in the way people treated me after losing weight every single time. And it's not like I enjoy getting fat then have a real awesome time losing the weight again back to where I was before, it's a very stressful thing to go through.
I do wish I could just maintain a healthy and slim physique all this time instead of going back and forth, like some people call the "Yo-Yo Diet". I have been able to lose a lot of weight and keep it off for up to 5 years. There is always something that ruins it for me.
I should probably start off from the very beginning so this "About" page makes sense...
1999-2002ish
I'd say during this time I was in between the ages of 12-14, and was made fun of for being fat quite a bit in school. When first getting into middle school I had started a paper route, and it was at this time that I decided to take matters into my own hands by eating about one meal a day in the evening when I got home from school and delivering newspapers.
At this time, the word "fasting" was a word but the process of doing it was frowned upon by most health professionals, but I did it anyway. I never thought once about going to the gym at this time, but my routine did basically consist of a lot of exercise so I didn't really need to go to the gym.
It only took a few weeks and after about 3-4 months I'd say I did lose probably about 30-40 pounds and that made a huge difference in how people treated me and I felt so much better about myself. The only thing that this diet affected was my grades to a certain degree.
My routine consisted of not eating at recess, and during the lunch break at school I would just go some where else than the cafeteria so that people wouldn't ask me why I wasn't eating. I would just go for a walk and come back to the school. It was a struggle to not eat on a daily basis but I knew it would be worth it.
On my paper route the hills were really steep in the area which I guess was beneficial to my weight loss progress. I had to deliver literally around 40-50 houses from Monday to Friday in the afternoons.
And not just by throwing newspapers on lawns, where I am we have to literally put the newspaper into a mail box. I know that's a thing on TV and maybe in the USA. I didn't make very much money but it was better than not having an income at all. I also was forced to see my family doctor because my mom was concerned that I had not been eating regularly like I should have been.
After I had stopped fasting because I had reached my weight loss goals, I started eating lots again and like I mentioned already I pretty much gained most of the weight back in Grade 9 (High School) but for some reason it did not bother me too much so I didn't end up going on another diet until I was around the age of 18 and started working.
I would say from Grade 9 until graduation I was maybe just over 200 pounds, and my ideal weight would of been around 180 pounds or less.
2006-2013ish
Once I started working I was a Collator (sorting newspapers and flyers into bundles) and I was probably around over 200 pounds at this time and people did think I was a bit overweight. This job I had was my first one ever, and I worked only part time. I eventually found work in retail as an overnight stocker and this is where I decided to start a new diet because I had enough.
I found this unique routine that helped me lose enough weight to where I was happy again. It was during the winter time and I would literally sleep all day because I was so warm in bed and I would wake up and start to get ready to go to work. During that 11-12 hours in bed I of course didn't eat anything.
I road my bike to work which took 45 minutes to maybe an hour long, and it was up quite a few hills. I basically would stock shelves and lift a lot of those heavy wooden pallets to stack them together and my shift was 11PM until 7AM. I think it was maybe about 3-4 months that I did this diet of sleeping all day, every single day.
I will agree with anyone that it's one of the dumbest diets I could have ever thought of, and I have never repeated the same diet ever again. It's just an opportunity I saw to lose weight and I followed the plan that made sense to follow at the time I guess. Now that I'm getting older it probably would be healthier to just do the diet I am doing now.
Anyways, I tried running outside a few times but only when I really felt like it. So I think the ball park range of weight I went from was 220 pounds to around 170 pounds, and of course noticed a huge difference in how people treated me and the confidence I felt just from looking in the mirror.
2013-2017
I had changed jobs and companies and I was basically working with food during this time frame. I started to eat much more than usual also because there was always extras from the food we were making so, since we were allowed to have a sample here and there I always took my chances to try what ever it was and of course I would later regret doing this in the next few months.
It was around the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 that I had gained enough weight to get to around 220-230 pounds, from that nice 170 pounds I was at before. I struggled during this time and just kept packing on the weight because of this job I had working with food. In 2017 I started taking a medication called Phenelzine (Nardil) and that caused my weight to skyrocket from 230 pounds to over 300.
This medication is well known for weight gain and it affected my weight big time and basically ruined my life. The highest weight I have ever been at is 350 pounds, and I was basically wearing a size 5X T-Shirt and size 52 waist line jeans. I felt horrible just from looking in the mirror.
2017-2025
I had many problems with my lower back during this time period, and during this time I was also taking an antipsychotic medication called Paliperidone and also Phenelzine at the same time. Phenelzine is meant for treating Depression and Anxiety, and it's an MAOI inhibitor, so there were dietary restrictions I had to follow while taking it.
After taking these two medications together for a couple years I finally decided to stop taking Phenelzine since it probably wasn't working because the other medication called Paliperidone was probably throwing it off (that was just my guess). I had heard many great things about Phenelzine but I just never got the full benefit that I had read about online.
The weight gain was basically ruining my life so after stopping Phenelzine I went from 350+ pounds down to about 330 pounds without even trying and this was over a 3 week period. I really think it was because I was at such a high dosage of Phenelzine that after stopping it I had lost over 20 pounds.
I was working a physically demanding job at the time so that may have been helpful with losing that 20 pounds. Now that I was done with Phenelzine, I had to some how get off of Paliperidone but that was a struggle and for personal reasons. I switched from Paliperidone to Abilify in 2021 and was on that medication until 2025.
I believe it was around July 2025 that I had stopped taking Abilify in the pill form (it may have been about 2mg's at the time). In July of 2025 I had decided to start this OMAD diet which I had found out at the time it was basically the same diet I had started in the early 2000's and it just didn't have a name back then.
I can't really say that I invented it because I'm sure a lot of people back then were trying it out despite health professionals advising against it. So, since I started OMAD in July of 2025 I went from 330 pounds to around 290 in December of 2025. Then from January of 2026 I went from 275 to around 250.
I believe 250 pounds is where I have been stuck for the past month or so recently because I had started the medication Abilify (2mg's) for personal reasons. It wasn't until about two nights ago that I did some research and realized that I had to stop this medication, but I will be seeing my family doctor soon on how to properly stop taking it too.
I really strongly believe that I have been able to lose over 80 pounds from July 2025 until now because I was not taking any antipsychotic medications. I also wrote an article about this today, check it out in this link here. So anyways, I plan to keep walking 1-2 hours a day, every day for the next few weeks and to also eat one meal a day as usual.
It's been working great and a lot of friends and family have noticed the difference it's made in the way I look and it has also affected my confidence recently too. But I still have too much belly fat and it still bothers me. My goal is to get to 170 or 160 pounds, what ever it takes.
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| From an older article I wrote on April 18th which you can check out here. |
I honestly never thought I could achieve this goal so far. I can easily lose 20 to 30 pounds in a few weeks but over 80 pounds?, that's hard to imagine. I know there are people out there that can't even lose 1 pound in the first place, they have simply accepted themselves and the fact that they will look the same the rest of their lives.
Anyways, I will probably have to update this About page in the future but for now this is all I got to say about my past. I hope someone out there found it interesting and maybe even inspirational in some sort of way...
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