My Bio

I decided to write a bio.  If somebody were reading my blog for the first time, they might wonder who I was, where I came from, what this was all about.

So this is the bio.

I was born in 1972.  Growing up, I was always a heavy kid.  This came with the usual baggage of taunts, bullying, etc.  I remember always having to buy big clothes to wear and not always having them fit right.

When I graduated high school in 1991, I was huge.  400+ pounds for sure.

For most of the 90's, I yo-yo'd up and down between probably 350 and 450.

Then, toward the end of 1997, I decided I'd had enough. I went on a 14-month tear...losing 240 pounds and becoming skinny.

Except I did it the wrong way. I accomplished this goal in a relatively short period of time through extreme exercise, a very strict diet and almost starvation levels of nutrition.  What happened next was what always happens when somebody does what I did....I gained it all back.

By the year 2000, I was over 400 pounds again. So much for that. I tried over the next ten years or so to lose weight, but always failed.

By June of 2010, I was at 577 pounds. And that wasn't my heaviest....there were times I am sure I got to 600, but with no scale to weigh on, there was no way of knowing.

On June 20, 2010, I was stricken with a Pulmonary Embolism and was taken to the emergency room. After a week in the hospital, I decided enough was enough and I was going to lose weight once and for all. But this time, I was determined to adopt a more moderate approach. 

And "The Ganey Bypass" was born!