57. Diet Update: Joel’s obesity through the years

I admit. Aside from being a drunkard, a druggie, a gambler and a freaking sexual offender, I also have a sort of eating disorder. The type that I DON’T STOP EATING either until I throw up or pass out. It all started out after highschool I guess, I blame college for what I have. People in my former university are vain and being anti social, I usually do the opposite of the norm. Everyone was trying to pass and diet at the same time. I did the exact opposite, I failed and I ate myself to rebel status. Err. Yeah.  

Some people say I’m strong and insensitive. But it’s actually the opposite. I am sensitive. I am usually depressed. Being so I tend to eat my problems away. Yeah, the typical “I eat because I’m depressed, I’m depressed because I eat” shit and look at me now. I wasn’t like this before. I went to the gym, I played sports (like magic and games of the general) I am a freaking frustrated CAT officer and I could proudly say I am fitter than all of them officers!!

Okay, sorry for the outburst but let me get back to the topic here. I will now show photos of how this disease took over my life. OBESITY!! It’s actually an illness now could believe it? Look at me, why not?!

First Photograph:

Tender Years

Oh yes, highschool, the time when one has to learn about the birds and the bees, the watering of the plants, the eating of the beans, the smell of a newly bloomed flower err.. I think you get it.  The best days of our lives. Well the picture was taken early 1997. 11 long years ago. I was in fourth year highschool back then. One could see how thin I was!! So contrary to what people know. I haven’t always been fat!!

Next picture was taken on the summer of 2001. A year after I graduated college.  In just four years time my skin lightened but with a very pricey cost. I gained weight. A lot of it. 

with mah homies bry and maya

Looking at the picture, my highschoool buddy, Bryan was evidently annoyed and there was a rational reason behind it. Either he wanted to be the center of the picture or because I elbow dropped his bird. Either way, we are bestfriends to date. I just hope it’s not because of the second reason.

Also a double chin has already formed well under my original chin and my cheeks are chubbier compared to the 1997 picture.  And I have to say contrary to the belief that you’ll lose weight if you get braces, well, in my case I gained a ton of weight. 

Next picture is an example of what I did wrong. The year 2004. Weight? 190lbs already!!  The sun is high, wimmin in skimpy bikinis, nasugbu white sand and what. the. hell. did. I. do. all day?

 I freaking ate barbecue the whole day!

Right there, that has to be the summary of my life. While the cool dudes were in board shorts and getting laid, I was in my nike shirt, alone in a table full of food. This is the very picture of what I did wrong . I was too shy to take off my shirt. Why? I already had stretch marks. STRETCH MARKS!! What am I? A pregnant woman? You could say that. I am a pregnant woman with an appetite for two. moving on.

2005, I’ve finally realize that I have a problem. I was already fat. I lost a lot the previous year. I want to take back my life. To have the strength and hold the bull by it’s horns. I went on to have my first ever diet. I Stopped eating carbs, from 220lbs, I brought it down to 200lbs in one month. Yeah you heard me right. One freaking month. 

Cute ko noh? Friendster pic!!

So yeah aside from the fact that I look like a complete fag in the picture, I thinned down. Lost a lot of weight including my double chin. My wife doesn’t know this but I courted her 2005. After I gained some confidence and self esteem.,I went back on the horse and courted her. So yeah. I dieted before I courted my wife. Neat trick huh? Although I guess that was my problem. It was just a trick, a diet, a temporary thing. Take it from me kids, diet is not a temporary thing. You have to think of it as a change in your lifestyle. Something better for yourself because you deserve better. You deserve to be treated better. If you don’t think like this you won’t make your diet work. Believe me, I’ve been there. Actually I’m still there. Don’t make the same mistake because the following pictures will show you what happens. The post diet nightmare everyone is dreading - YOYO EFFECT! Dun Dunn DUNN!!!

 Oh hai gais! I’m fat!!

This was taken march 2008. After the wedding. After the dieting. No care what I stuff in my mouth. Actually these were fun days because I wasn’t watching my weight. I drank like there’s no tomorrow, I ate like there’s no tomorrow. Sadly tomorrow came and look what I did to myself. From 200lbs in 2005. I ballooned to a whopping 220lbs last March 2008. 

So you guys might think, “ok so you gained back what you lost. Big deal that happens.” WRONG! The thing with the Yoyo, when it goes down and up again. It usually goes higher than where you started. One flick of a finger and boom! You hit yourself in the face. In your FACE!  and that’s exactly what happened to me. Notice I was 220lbs in March 2008. It was a different story just two months after.  <KRARRRAKATHOOOOM>

In your face motherfuckers!

I basically jumped from 220lbs to a whopping 242lbs, the heaviest I have ever been. Twice heavier than my wife(who is only 116lbs)!! I had to include her weight because you can’t put wife and heavy in a single sentence without suffering the consequences. So yeah for the record. She’s not heavy. heehee no techincalities there. 

Years of uncontrollabe drinking, eating and drinking some more has led me to this. How my life changed is in here. I am also glad to say that I have been sober for the past month and a week I have not ingested alcohol specifically beer and I’ve lowered my carbs consuption to almost a zero. Also with the badminton and the stationary bike my weight has gone down from 242lbs to 219lbs as of this morning. 

Long hair rocker dude!!

Dumb ass. I know what you’re thinking. “He hasn’t lost that much weight” or “he’s still fat as a cow” Well, Fuck you! I said I lost weight. But still, 219lbs is big. heavy. I’m back to where I was before. But the thing is, I’ve learned my lesson. I will carry on and continue to diet. Until I get my desired weight. 

So to the non-believers, you’ll see! I’ve seen the error of my ways. I just hope my knees won’t give out first. Badminton has been really killing me. Weak knees + weight + badminton = ACL Well, I hope not.