My personal achievement

[Priit]

Well done Ice. My story is pretty much the same. I've always liked food that isn't probably too good for the health. At some point i realized (i was 120kg-s by then) that if i keep doing so, then it wouldn't end up good for me. I was thinking what to do for a long period, until my friend made a suggestion that we could go running. We started slowly, first week was pretty much walking the seven kilometer trip. They were pretty much right about the first part, that is always hard.

Tried to run few times, but i was breathless immediately. I promised myself that i won't give up on me, because at that point it was the only thing that kept me going through this hard time.

Things started to go up the hill week after the first. I didn't felt so tired anymore and i could actually run for longer distance. So we went out with my friend pretty much every evening.
This lasted about a month or two. Then one day when i called him and asked to meet me, all he said was "enough of that, i got better things to do".

This was actually pretty bad setback for me, if i remember correctly i almost gave up doing that also. But then i remembered what i said to myself. "if you don't do it now, you never will". I guess that was the only cause, that kept me going again.

Time flew past, weeks became months. And finally it felt so good, just to run and run and run. Even more, i bought trek road bike and started cycling also, after running. So it was 7 kilometers on foot and 30-70 kilometers with road bike, depending on the mood.

It took me about 6-7 months, to completely change the way i look, all the people i didn't meet for a long time didn't recognize me anymore. It was the same with all my ID cards and other documents that had my picture on it. I have been accused on frauds god knows how many times, but i still enjoy talking my story and some of them actually do believe it.

When i think back to that time, i still think that i pushed myself too far, because eating extra healthy food and doing this crazy workout at same time. I guess i got too addicted to it, that wasn't even paying attention to what and how much do it eat. It had to stop, when i was nearly around 68kg-s. It felt so good to be lightweight again, but after i passed out first time, i realized that i have pushed it bit too far. Then it started to happen 2-3 times per day. Some doctors said that it's pretty much miracle that i survived this with so little damage.

So this is it, from 120kg to 70 in pretty short time. Like you said, anything is possible if you really put your heart and mind to it.

Right now i'm living in a big city, where no one knows how i used to look, but sometimes when i go to my hometown and see some old friends, when they walk right pass me and don't recognize me anymore, it's still a blast to see the look on their eyes.