Comments on: Week 1: Weigh-in Results http://www.344pounds.com/2009/01/week-1-weigh-in-results/ I lost nearly 150 pounds by counting calories. I once weighed 344.2 pounds, now around 200. My story has been told on CNN, CBS, and Newsweek and will soon be in a book. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:25:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Janice Brandenburg http://www.344pounds.com/2009/01/week-1-weigh-in-results/#comment-11951 Janice Brandenburg Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:41:38 +0000 http://www.344pounds.com/?p=34#comment-11951 This story has also inspired me, as well as you too Amy Trevino! I tried to look you up on Facebook, hoping to offer you some support and thinking maybe we could support each other. That's all I truly need right now - is someone to be all, "way to go!" even if it's just 1 lb I lose in a week, y'know? Anyway, if you happen to check this again, I would more than welcome you to request me on FB. I totally know what it's like to be overweight and just being sick of it. Although I know I am more within this fatty shell, the world mostly only sees the outside, and I don't like the outside. It's time for a change!!! Janice Brandenburg Blytheville, AR This story has also inspired me, as well as you too Amy Trevino! I tried to look you up on Facebook, hoping to offer you some support and thinking maybe we could support each other. That’s all I truly need right now – is someone to be all, “way to go!” even if it’s just 1 lb I lose in a week, y’know? Anyway, if you happen to check this again, I would more than welcome you to request me on FB.

I totally know what it’s like to be overweight and just being sick of it. Although I know I am more within this fatty shell, the world mostly only sees the outside, and I don’t like the outside.

It’s time for a change!!!

Janice Brandenburg
Blytheville, AR

]]> By: Amy http://www.344pounds.com/2009/01/week-1-weigh-in-results/#comment-11919 Amy Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:53:17 +0000 http://www.344pounds.com/?p=34#comment-11919 Dear Tyler, My name is Amy, and I woke up this morning with this terrible realization that if I don't change my life style, I am going to die. I know you are probably really busy, but I wanted to send you this email to tell you how you have made me decide that today is the day that I will start my own weight loss journey. First, let me just tell you a little about myself. I am 33 years old, and i'm a single mother of two of the best kids I have ever met, but don't we all think that way about our kids? They are ages 16 and 10. I am a correctional officer here in Texas, so being over weight is not only detrimental to my health, and my family's well being, but it is also a job hazard. I need to be able to move, run, and occationally defend myself against men two and three times my size and in much, much better physical condition. This morning I weighed in at an embarrissing 310!! It's horrible, and I feel and look horrible. I have always been over weight, and have just gotten used to it, I figured I just would always be like this, but seeing your story changed something inside of me. You are a real person, and you arent trying to sell anything, it's just you and your amazing story. I want to have an amazing story too. I want to change my life, my body, and be an inspiration to my kids. I want to teach them to make the right choices in life, so they wont face the same struggles I have. So today, I dropped them off at school, and came home, and went for a walk around my neighborhood. Like I said, I am a single mother, and money is always tight, so I can't really afford a gym membership, but I figure I can use the weight i'm already carrying around everyday to my advantage. Believe me, it feels like it's enough!! The walking was painful, and I kept asking myself why was I doing it, when I could be home in my comfortable bed enjoying my day off. I don't know how to change my way of thinking other than just trying to do it. So anyway, I just thought I would write to you and tell you thank you for showing me that it can be done, by a real person that has a child and pets and bills just like me. Also, I think i'm writing this so there is another person in the world who knows i'm doing this. See I don't want to tell anyone i'm doing this, because then if I fail, everyone will know. It's happened before, and i'm not sure if it will happen again. So in closing, Thanks again for your story, and I will continue to follow it during the course of my journey. Sincerly, Amy Trevino Corpus Christi, TX Dear Tyler,
My name is Amy, and I woke up this morning with this terrible realization that if I don’t change my life style, I am going to die. I know you are probably really busy, but I wanted to send you this email to tell you how you have made me decide that today is the day that I will start my own weight loss journey. First, let me just tell you a little about myself. I am 33 years old, and i’m a single mother of two of the best kids I have ever met, but don’t we all think that way about our kids? They are ages 16 and 10. I am a correctional officer here in Texas, so being over weight is not only detrimental to my health, and my family’s well being, but it is also a job hazard. I need to be able to move, run, and occationally defend myself against men two and three times my size and in much, much better physical condition. This morning I weighed in at an embarrissing 310!! It’s horrible, and I feel and look horrible. I have always been over weight, and have just gotten used to it, I figured I just would always be like this, but seeing your story changed something inside of me. You are a real person, and you arent trying to sell anything, it’s just you and your amazing story. I want to have an amazing story too. I want to change my life, my body, and be an inspiration to my kids. I want to teach them to make the right choices in life, so they wont face the same struggles I have. So today, I dropped them off at school, and came home, and went for a walk around my neighborhood. Like I said, I am a single mother, and money is always tight, so I can’t really afford a gym membership, but I figure I can use the weight i’m already carrying around everyday to my advantage. Believe me, it feels like it’s enough!! The walking was painful, and I kept asking myself why was I doing it, when I could be home in my comfortable bed enjoying my day off. I don’t know how to change my way of thinking other than just trying to do it. So anyway, I just thought I would write to you and tell you thank you for showing me that it can be done, by a real person that has a child and pets and bills just like me. Also, I think i’m writing this so there is another person in the world who knows i’m doing this. See I don’t want to tell anyone i’m doing this, because then if I fail, everyone will know. It’s happened before, and i’m not sure if it will happen again. So in closing, Thanks again for your story, and I will continue to follow it during the course of my journey.

Sincerly,
Amy Trevino
Corpus Christi, TX

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