I once was him...

My name is Andrew Jeff Vandenberg and I once weighed 141.6 Kilograms. This was the heaviest I've ever been. Believe it or not, in high school I weighed 85Kg. I had the body of an athlete, I was the fastest swimmer in my year level. in Year 7 I swam the 50m Butterfly in 33 seconds, 50m Freestyle in 28 seconds and could run 100m in 12.84 seconds. Every swimming carnival I would easily beat my fellow students. Then I left high school after once I had completed Year 10. I stopped all sports. Over the past 4 years I have put on 56.6Kg. That is pretty much a whole person. I remember in 2007 when I weighed 115Kg telling myself that I'll join a gym and start losing weight. In 2008 I weighed 120Kg, I told myself that if I ever got to 130Kg then I would have to join the gym because it was extremly over weight. Late 2008 I told myself that if I ever got over 140Kg I would definately join the gym. They all were false promises to myself of which I never once was going to follow through.
Being over weight is an experience in life that I would nto wish upon anyone. People look at you differently, think differently about you, treat you differently and view you differently just becuase of you weight. Most women in society say that they want a man with a great sense of humor and personality etc. I beg to differ. Most women in society do not want to date someone who is overweight. I have learnt that it doesn't matter how funny, successful, intellegent etc you are because if you are overweight then the deal is off. Sadly I have learnt that through my experiences over the past couple of years. I do acknowledge that there are a small number of women who look through the layers of skin and stare into your heart, my beautiful girlfriend is one fo those women. I do ask you all not to judge people whom are overweight because it isn't easy to lose weight. Going to the gym and eating healthy food isn't as easy as it sounds. You first have to deal with emotional hold it has on your life, being unmotivated, having to mindset to put things off and being scared of the change.
When I joined Pro Fitness, the biggest thing I was scared of was the change that was going to happen. You see when change accures, you leave something of your old ways behind. As much as I am looking forward to losing 40Kgs, I am scared of it as well. I lose my idenity as an overweight person and take up the new idenity as a healthy weight person. This is something I haven't felt In over 5 years. So I beg you, don't treat people differently because of their weight. Cheers for that.
My name is Andrew Jeff Vandenberg and started my journey of losing 40Kgs today and I already feel great.