I am a 30 year old guy at my wits end and frustrated at my weight gain over the past few months. I am now at my all time fattest at 271 pounds. I stand 6'4", so thankfully I don't look 271, but I feel it. I wear nothing but expando waistband pants. I am not liking the general direction my life is going. Well past few years is more like it. I was on Weight Watchers back in 2003 and I dropped from 255 down to 220. I was feeling so good about myself, and was loving life. My mom got sick and ended up dying in December of 2003, after that event, I could never get back into weight watchers. I tried months later to no avail. Since then I have tried to work out to offset what I eat, but nowadays I have absolutly no willpower or motiviation to work out. I hate my body, and I hate myself for being so lazy. I feel as if I am split down the middle. My brain knows what I eat is bad and it knows what I should be doing to remedy the problem, however my stomach doesn't seem to care. I eat the bad things, and then AFTER I beat myself up on the inside because I was so weak. I can't tell you how many wars my stomach has won over my brain on what I want to eat. I don't know if my habits are a lasting effect of my moms passing, or if I am just a lazy slob. All I know is I want to turn myself around. I want to get back into my old workpants that don't have anything to do with elastic waistbands, and back into my tight shirts that were tight for good reasons, and not to highlight my rolls. lol Any support and helpful motivation is appreciated.

support we got... and we're happy to offer it - motivation really has tocome from within you... and sounds like you've got a few reasons to motivate yourself - youo just need to take it day by day.

Start small and challenge yourself to do different things...

Startngwith keeping a food journal and recording accurately what you are eating and why you are eating it...
Start with small amounts of exercise - many people, myself included get into the too much too soon problem and then just get tired and burn out on it and stop... Walk 20 minutes a day...

you can do whatever you put your mind too..

Dude, It sounds like you are having a lot of the same problems I've been through.
Check out my Lean Body Quest - It's a blog about my current weight loss experience with lots of tips and motivational stuff that's helped me a lot. Check it out and good luck!!
-Billy

Billy:

I actually think that your post is very judgemental for a guy who's just embarked on his weight loss journey.

You have no idea what other people have going on in their lives, you have no idea of their financial situations, or the events that have brought them to that moment in time when you so 'kindly' judged them as uncaring slobs.

How about a little compassion for people who are probably just doing the best that they can with their life.

Get a big dog to chase after you when you go running, that should give you all the motivation you need.

I officially started my diet 1 pound more then when I wrote this back on Dec 26th, 2006 at 272. The big turn around was my nephew Easton. He is a year and 4 months old and I was SO out of breath when I was playing with him lifting him above my head and playing hide and seek. Kind of scary how out of breath I was with this light exercise when I was visiting my sister at Christmas. I have been going to the gym 5-6 days of the week and pretty much cut out fast food which I thought would be a whole lot harder since I was raised on it, but after the 3rd week, burgers look good, but they don't sound good. I am now down to 260, 12 pounds down, 50 more to go. I guess it is an awesome start since I have only been at it for 22 days. I fit into size 42 waist pants WITHOUT the elastic waistband. I was excited since I had outgrown these pants. I still wear the elastic waistband 42 pants, however I have noticed that they don't stretch anything like they were a few weeks back. Keep the encouragement coming. Thanks again all!

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Sounds like you found your motivation! Sometimes it is very difficult to find it, and sometimes not liking the way you look and feel is just not enough!
It is simple things like playing with kids and being out of breath that can have the most impact. Congratulations on you loss, way to go! Often once you get a good start, your success and the way you feel will become the biggest motivation and reward!