I started working out because I hated people making fun of me because I was really skinny. And then when I got in good shape, people started to admire me, and those were the best times of my life....and that's also when I found the love of my life. I guess, like a lot people in a relationship, I got comfortable with how i looked and didn't have a drive to workout any more. Since i was still eating a high calorie diet but not working out, i gained a lot of weight. I went from 185lbs in muscle to 215lbs in pretty much all fat. .. I expected that my fianc� should love me for who I am and not for how I look..., and she does, but one day i noticed that she had to defend me from her parents because of my weight and she probably had to do that from other people too.I had never thought about this but every now and then, the things that people said may have at some point make her question herself why she was still with a man with no motivation...after all, she's human... and from that point on, I said to my self, that if you love her, you would need to fight for her everyday of your life... And the gym had since then became my battlefield