I hope you’ll enjoy joining me on this walk where I talk about my recent struggles and successes. These are off-the-cuff talks while I go on walks that are lightly edited. Recently I’ve started using DenoiseIt to clean up the background noise, so listening quality should be reasonably acceptable.

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve hit a very exciting milestone. In many ways I can say I’ve already transformed my life in a very short time. My quality of life is substantially better in so many ways after a few months of very challenging work. I’ve hit the low 420s after being as high as the mid 570s. I’m excited to keep pushing hard to reach this year’s ambitious goal of being below 300 by the end of 2025.

Smaller things are starting to fit and things I’m used to wearing are becoming far too big to wear comfortably. I love that I’m spending less time thinking about walking relatively short distances, giving me a better sense of agency day-to-day. Currently, I’m working on progressing towards being able to do push-ups. I am really enjoying the opportunity to grow much stronger while making radical changes to my body.

I’d like to thank everyone who has shared some kindness and encouragement my way because it has absolutely made what is a very difficult road much easier. I’ve learned so much even just getting to this point. I really enjoy your thoughts & questions a great deal because I know I have much more to learn on the long road remaining. I especially appreciate book recommendations and make sure to add them to my growing “to read” list.

In case you’re not familiar with my story, I’ve shared how I got so big and just how bad my eating troubles were.