Lifelong Struggle with Weight Loss

Part of my identity has always been “the fat kid”, not a part of my identity that I particularly like. I’ve always been overweight. I don't know what my weight was every month or every year, but I do have a few moments where I remember my exact weight. My sophomore year of high school I wrestled in the 168-pound weight class. Given my height, I was easily the most overweight person on the team. And I remember having to cut weight to make the weigh in.

I did the Atkins diet from April 2001 and went from 317 pounds to 262 pounds in about a year. By August of 2003 I was back up to 345 pounds. My weight fluctuated and I had some points getting as low as 325 in the following years. My weight still rose and by October of 2016 I was topping the scales at 397 pounds. This was my wake up call, but we’ll get back to that later.
In general, after I stopped a diet I'd usually gain back all of the weight I lost, plus a few extra pounds. I began to wonder if I would have been better off if I'd never tried to diet.
In my next post I plan on discussing my first success with a low-carb diet, the Atkins diet in 2001. You can also read my previous post in this series which discussed my ketoversary.
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