After a childhood dramatically affected by obesity, I hit 500 pounds by the time I turned nineteen. Several weight loss attempts using the latest and greatest dieting techniques didn’t stick for me. Time and time again, I’d lose some weight and gain it back plus more.

Things didn’t start changing until I turned thirty-six and started my blog, The Daily Diary of A Winning Loser. Dropping the diet mentality and adopting different perspectives and different actions ended up changing things in dramatic ways.

The last decade has been transformative in every way possible. The path to a healthy weight-range has never been a straight one. Many things have been learned along the way about how to develop sustainable, long-term results. Through it all, the biggest transformation hasn’t been the physical part, it’s the transformation of old patterns and perspectives that kept me near, at, or above 500 pounds for the better part of two decades.

Today, more than ten years since my Day 1 on September 15th, 2008, I continue to work my daily practice of intentional actions. It’s never perfect and it’s always evolving as life moves forward. A set of non-negotiable boundaries and intentional mental/emotional practices help govern each brand-new day.