On December 31, 2009 I weighed 416 pounds. Going back to 2006, I weighed over 460 pounds, so much in fact, that I pinged the scale in my doctor’s office. In 2009, I turned 50 years old, and decided it was time to either take charge in my life and lose all the weight I had gained since law school — in law school I ran the NYC Marathon, and weighed in the high 180’s/low 190’s.

I am always asked what finally drove me to dedicate myself to losing all this weight, and simply, I wanted to date again (after my girlfriend of 24 years passed away in 2008), play sports, and live a normal life.  So over the next two years, I worked to get myself back into the high 180’s/low 190’s. I charted my weight weekly, with my weigh day, and my official weight for the week, always being recorded on Saturday. I reached my goal in December 31, 2011, when I weighed 186.8 lbs.

My loss of weight over those two years is shown in the above chart, and as I add to this website, I will share my experiences, suggestions, tricks and feelings as I undertook that journey. Since that time, I have continued to track my weight, and at the end of December of 2014, weighed 199.8 lbs. — still in the 190’s after 3 years,