As of today, I weigh 168 pounds. When I started trying to lose weight about two years ago I weighed 202. So far, that is a loss of 34 pounds, and makes me pretty happy. Now, clearly it has taken me a lot longer to lose the weight than I initially anticipated, but some of you may remember that there were certain events in my life that side tracked me for a while.

My body has gone through significant changes. My man boobs can now be called pecs, (fucking hurray for that) and a lot of...