650 lb virgin

I was just now reading this about 650 lb virgin and thought it may make a wonderful post to my web log.



The 650-lb Virgin David Smith: What an inspirational story that aired Sunday night on the TLC cable channel. It took some four years, but David Smith went from being a 650-lb virgin down to 220 pounds, but even that left him with problems, including excess skin that left him looking grotesque. But the medical profession stepped in and helped the 650-lb virgin David Smith look more presentable via plastic surgery and even some dental work. Yet his years of being socially isolated left this man no good at the dating game, and this program on TLC showed his skills at dating being improved, as he was very awkward talking to women for most of his life. His personal trainer Chris Powell, who saved David's life, also encouraged him with this endeavor of romance, as they were shown as best friends and roomies. His story is about change beginning by looking in the mirror, which one of my favorite Michael Jackson songs allude to.

The 650-lb Virgin David Smith: Digging Out of the Hole

What I find most inspirational about this program wasn't even the main focus. The 650-lb Virgin program briefed over his exercise and diet program which caused his massive weight loss, and he's now a personal trainer himself who still eats healthy and exercises. I never got this bad with my weight, but I've always lived by this adage: stay out of the hole by not digging it in the first place. But at least the 650-lb virgin David Smith decided to take action before it was too late, and did so the long and hard way, as he refused to get the drastic gastric bypass surgery.

But even I could've gotten myself into that position that so many people do with weight: that terrible burden of obesity. In 1994, I began to take more notice of my weight at age 27. I hardly ever exercised as an adult and ate tons of junk food, and I was about 12-13 pounds away from being overweight when I'd been basically very skinny all my existence. Getting that close to being overweight scared me straight to where I began a walking regimen during the cold Fall of 1994 (all autumns get cold in Wyoming), but by the Winter of 2003, my walking graduated to a running regimen. I recall being able to run just five minutes twice a day, and it was torture, but over time it built up to where I can run 30-35 minutes twice a day, and I've kept my weight at around 130 pounds. I began addressing my diet in 2007 to fight high cholesterol levels, and am eating the healthiest diet I've ever had as an adult (plus taking nutritional supplements). I've been able to get my cholesterol levels at optimal ranges without taking cholesterol medication! Knock on wood.

The 650-lb Virgin David Smith Is On The Way!

Yet for David Smith, the former 650-lb virgin, his physical health being on the right road still left him feeling very romantically lonely, and watching him make the play for the women was kind of hard, because this dating game is hard, especially for someone who (as Wall Street protagonist Gordon Gekko quipped about either being on the inside or the outside) has been mostly left on the outside of life because of his long time obesity.

The moral to the 650-lb Virgin story of David Smith is that if you want something in this life, you have to be the one to initiate the action to getting it (and believe that it can be done in the first place), and along the way, you'll find the people and circumstances that will further your cause.