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How I Lost 105 Pounds of Fat and What it Means to You

Like you, I was embarrassed of how I looked, but more importantly, I was disgusted with how I felt. I was 300 pounds and wearing 46 inch pants and wearing XXXL shirts.

Not only was I tired, but like you, I was also emotionally drained and burned out. I was tired of hiding from the camera at family functions. I always made sure I wore big and baggy clothes to hide my ugly fat.

On a cold December day in 2002, I was playing a football video game and I threw an interception.  Out of frustration, I threw the controller down. Once I bent down to pick it up, I had an “A-ha” moment.

I realized I was not the person I was meant to be. As athletic as I was throughout my life, I had led myself to this… a grouchy, overweight guy in his twenties letting life go by. I struggled as I reached down to pick the controller up. It was ridiculous as I huffed and puffed.

I sat there on my couch, in shock, wondering what had happened to me. I was so athletic through my entire life, yet here I was, sweating from picking up a dang controller.

I even struggled just to get up and down the stairs or carrying more than two bags of groceries… in my twenties.

I’m sure you can relate as one bad habit led to another. A desk job led to more snacking and boredom. And that boredom trickled down into my workouts.

You’re probably there right now. Your workouts bore you. Your struggles are even boring you. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You’re ready to do something about it and that’s exactly how I felt.

In fact, that “epiphany” moment of the controller on the ground was a BIG SWITCH for me.
The University of California at San Francisco’s Human Performance Center, which specializes in physiological analysis, uses a VO2 test to track fat burning down to the last calorie. The test works by measuring the maximum capacity of an individual’s breathing while exercising.

The VO2 analyzer assesses a user’s calories lost during exercise by tracking breathing patterns. First, the user puts on headgear similar to a scuba mask and snorkle. The snorkle is attached to a long tube that is hooked into the VO2 analyzer. Finally, the analyzer records the user’s breathing pattern as he or she inhales and exhales during exercise.
Depending on the quality of breathing, the VO2 analyzer calculates how hard the user is working and combines that data with the user’s body stats: height, weight, age, and body fat. The VO2 analyzer can then compute how many calories are burned during the exercise.

This measurement reflects someone’s fitness and can be broken down to determine how many calories one burns.