Here we go!! :)

My name is Mike, I am married to a wonderful woman named Lorena and I have 4 older children between the ages of 16 and 25 and I have been fighting weight problems for about 16 years since I blew my knee out playing racquetball.

Up to that point I had always been an athletic person of sorts.

I played Tennis as a youngster and was state ranked as well as Soccer in youth leagues and High School. I power lifted in College as well as playing a few sports on the imtermural level. I played all sorts of other sports on the unorganized level but the point is I really enjoyed sports and I stayed between 160 to 210 lbs for years.

When I blew my knee out it was the start of some hard battles with weight.

As Lorena had kids she gained a little weight and I did too!

Well... I now weigh 324 pounds and at a height of 5'7" I am a tad bit round!! :)

The purpose of this blog is to help me with keeping track of everything that happens... a diary of what I will go through and if somebody else reads this and gains anything then all the better!! :)

I do not know how often I will write in this but I hope to keep it up with pictures and feelings I have as I go.

Lorena is scheduled to have the Gastric bypass tomorrow and mine is a week later...

As I said in the title of this post... Here we go!