My weight loss journey

Here's a link to the previous post I made and the overwhelmingly positive and supportive comments I recieved: https://imgur.com/gallery/csiYEw7

So I guess let's begin this thing, I'm Matt and this is my story of going from a scrawny nerd in highschool to an overweight miserable mid 20's dude full of self loathing and then into a buff 30 year old who's in the best shape of his life.

So this is the main weight loss, on the left is me at around age 23-24, I weighed about 240-250 pounds. I had man boobs and quite the gut, thankfully this is the only shirtless photo I have from that time. I was about the same weight as my dad there in the foreground. I was absolutely miserable at the time, I was working nearly 60 hours a week, eating absolute shit, I had just been dumped by an ex and I was contemplating suicide as my health deteriorated due to the stress other health conditions.

On the right is me after I had moved to California and lost most of the weight, I was around 26 at the time feeling pretty damn proud of myself. Moving the California was really the catalyst to me changing my life around and although I only lived there 2 years it was the most influential 2 years of my life. At this point I had yet to begin any weight training at all, I was so weak trust me ya'll could have beaten me up pretty easily.

This is probably 2 years later, it took me a while to start weight training and in that meantime I had a lot of people asking me if I was sick because I was little underweight (mostly my mom who would harass me constantly about being so skinny, typical mom behavior). I was so proud of this picture for a long while because it was the first time I noticed I had muscles.

And finally these last few are me recently. I'm now an avid gym goer, so much so that I'm now a regular at the gym near my house. I never imagined I'd look this way.

Pardon the incredibly dirty mirror, how embarrassing.

So that's my journey, I thank everyone in advance for any positive comments and I really look forward to talking with ya'll. Feel free to ask me any questions you have about it as I'd love to inspire anyone I can. This took 5+ years and it was a battle, but I can tell you that it was absolutely the best decision In my life.

Thank you again Imgur for motivating me to share this.

One last little anecdote, when I got fat nobody told me I was fat, I had inklings of it but nobody said anything, EXCEPT my father. Every time I'd see him he'd call me a fat ass and all I could think of was "what the hell you're as fat as I am". Now that I've lost all this weight though he's now taking credit for all my weight loss due to giving me motivation. He's such an asshole sometimes but I love him.

Oh and of course here's the goddamn cat tax, my little buddy Ulysses S. Cat.