It all started with Thor Ragnarok. I
was sitting in the theater and there was a scene where Thor, played
by Chris Hemsworth, is standing there shirtless in all his
Hemsworthiness. A few people in the audience gasped. Some whistled.
Maybe things moved in pants. I just sat there and thought to myself
“Why don't I look like that?!” Besides the obvious reasons like
the fact that I consider going to do my laundry a physical activity
and all of my hobbies require me sitting as still as possible there
is no reason that I shouldn't look better than I do. Not a 28 inch
waist and 60 inch shoulders like Thor, but just better than I did.
I wasn't what I would describe as fat.
I was definitely not in good shape but better shape than I was a few
years prior. My attempts to be healthy started late and slowly. In
2012 I started drinking water. When I was little I would drink it
from hoses outside while ants crawled on my hands. In 2013 I started
taking multivitamins. Just small steps that made small differences.
By 2014 I was beginning to eat salads sometimes and vegetables. In
2015 I was close to 260 pounds (I am 6 foot 1 and it doesn't sound
bad to be that heavy...if you're an athlete) and while still drinking
water and taking vitamins my diet consisted of pizzas, pastas, about
six sodas an evening at work, and a huge bowl of Fruity Pebbles with
orange juice an coffee every single morning. You do not want to know
how many calories that was a day.
