This is rather a hard question as I am getting started with working out! But what got me to the starting line would have to be the shocking moment at a amusement park. If anyone lives near Ohio they have heard of Cedar Point Amusement Park! One of my favorite places in my youth and it hold so many memories. My latest memory is sticking the hardest. Out of no where a group of us decide to much time had gone by since our last go at the roller coasters so we headed out. Spent over 2 hours waiting for a ride and get up to the seat... sit down... and the seat belt will not latch! I watched the attendant pull and wrench and lean away with all his body to try and get it to attach but finally he looked at me and said "Sorry mister but your just to big for the ride" and points to the exit runway.

Talk about humiliating. I walked away with my head hanging low as people point and talked about how I was to fat to ride out openly and loud enough so I could hear it the whole way down. I tried a couple more rides to the same effect. There was only one ride I could ride... The Power Tower.

This destroyed my self worth and image. I never thought of myself as the fat guy. But faced with this I came to the quick realization that What I see myself as and what I am are not the same but way off. I spun into a depression and really started to pack on the pounds.

I remember getting on the scale and it tipped at the 295 marker. I had to have a digital scale because I couldn't look down and see the numbers on the old fashion ones. I stopped getting on the scale because I wouldn't accept that I weighed over 300 pounds even though I knew I did. I had jumped 2 more pant sizes from when I was 295.

This is what got me to think about change. I had a choice I had to make. Make a difference in my life or continue what I was doing and see hoe big I could get. Threw some lifestyle changes I have been able to drop down over the last year. Now at the 275ish area I want to lose some weight and craft this flabby body into something worth looking at!

I left this blank for some time cause I didn't know how to answer it. Only after going strong for a couple months did I have anything to say. I love working out. I love seeing improvement on myself. There is one thing you will have all your life and that is your body. I like how I feel when I am done. Its euphoric? Its knowing that I am doing good. Knowing that I am improving myself. Knowing that I am improving my life. Its awesome.