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After considering many possible scenarios; my wife was shrinking my clothes, manufacturers were making clothes smaller, gravity was changing as a result of human pollution, etc, etc, (believe me – I thought of them all) I finally woke up to a sobering realization – I WAS FAT! Not just a bit either – but knocking at 300lbs FAT! My blood pressure was high, I developed plantar fasciitis, I woke up sore every day, everything was tiring, I had to carry a sweat wrap everywhere I went, I was getting less and less interested in being active and I literally out grew all my favourite stores – in short and to be completely blunt – I was dying – I every sense of the word!! I’m 49. In my younger years a quick tweet would snap off 10 lbs and life went on. Not now. I would drop a bit and then put just a bit more on a week later. In a change room I became very short of breath trying, unsuccessfully, to do the button up on a pair size 42 pants, through my shamed tears I knew it was time for me to get serious! I had explored medically supervised weight loss in the past but found the programs I looked into had a few quirky “rules” that made me feel they weren’t a good for me and they required many in-clinic visits which was not possible because I live 3 hours from the closest clinic. Driving down the highway one day – donut in hand – I saw a billboard for Liv Lean. So I thought I’d give them a call. Katlyn was super helpful!! I asked a lot of questions about physical visits and a few other things I had learned from the other clinics and I got a great vibe about their program – so I dove in! I was nervous about sticking within the parameters of the diet and thought that my ridiculously low self-control wouldn’t allow me to succeed. Not so! Now after 30 days of a 41 day program I’m feeling great! I’m down about 25 lbs – most of it was the nasty fat which prevented buttons on my shirts and pants from coming together (not the aforementioned laundry shrinkage). My blood pressure has dropped dramatically! I’m far more active again! I’m wearing clothes I haven’t worn in years! I don’t have to go to the very end of the clothes rack to find the one shirt in the store that fits me anymore and I’m feeling amazing! I wake up happy. I walk without pain, I’m back at the gym, back to being active and social again and I feel the old me clawing back out from underneath that person I wasn’t liking too much in the photos from the last year! If you’ve had “that moment” when it’s time to make the change or start planning your funeral – be brutally honest with yourself! Look around at your loved ones and think really seriously about how nasty it would be for you to make them watch you die! If you can do it on your own – do it! If you can’t (like me) call Liv Lean! I seriously owe them my life!