This one made me laugh, saying he had 8-10s throwing themselves at him at 5'11 320 with a 52" waist
No pics of this monster tho
"Wow. What a thread! I discovered this five days ago and have read it from beginning to end. Around page 10 or so I felt like that for the first time in my life, I was around people who I could entirely relate to. This is great and I look forward to being a part of this movement.
Phew! Man, I was a 5' 11", 575 lb. guy when I was 24 in 1989. I was wearing a size 68 pants. Within 2 years of that I'd gotten down to about 350 lbs. simply by cutting calories and eventually adopting vegetarianism. It was around 350 lbs that things changed dramatically for me socially and otherwise.
I was a likable guy, sharp, aware, and easy on the eyes...but big...really fat all my life. Still, at this size, I was nearly half the size I was not even 2 years earlier. So, regardless of how much of that I could readily process, everything was resoundingly different. I enjoyed as much of it as I could. It was the first time in my life I had regular friends who included me in their lives and activities. I got involved in things. Out of the blue, women began to pursue me openly. It was a lot to take in. I did the best I could. I was a champ about it and I tried, but it was awkward. Everybody used to always wonder why I was so stand-offish. The truth was that I could hardly believe I was functioning as a "regular" person in a workplace. People liked me. I loved everything. It was almost foreign to me.
But I opened up for the first time in my life. Out of nowhere, even at 315 lbs, I had dozens of women throwing themselves at me. So it wasn't just quantity either. Some were super-hot 8's, 9's, and 10's. I took several lovers and a few girlfriends. Unbelievable. Learning to be in relationships was and remains a lot of hard work. And like a lot of you mention in here, one of the hardest things was the body-image issue.
Anyway, by 2000 I was really fit and holding steady at about 238 or so w/ a 42 inch waist. That's over 300 lbs lost....26 inches off the waist. I had never been that fit in my entire life. I had to try to settle into my new body...get used to it and adjust. But it was hard to reconcile it and I often slipped in and out of long periods of rejecting or sabotaging the new, happier, healthier, way more productive guy I had become. I could not resolve the idea that somehow I didn't deserve it.
I've been up and down since then, and a lot of life has happened. I'm still here. I'm still working at it. Never stopped.
Sep 5, 2011: 321 lbs w/ 52 in. waist
April 28, 2012: 260 lbs w/ 44 in. waist.
The goal is to be 215 lbs by September 2012.
I've learned a lot about a lot of you reading through these threads, and I want to thank each of you for your contributions. Congratulations on all your hard work, and thank you for sharing this intimate part of your lives. I look forward to being a part of this community."
