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I used to play rugby and I was in shape. Could run for hours and felt like I could take anybody on the field. I had abs!! Then I went back to grad school (at 210 lbs) and sat down for three years eating my way to a Masters degree in geology. I graduated with 30 extra pounds.

I then accepted a job in Houston, TX where I thought I would pick up the rugby ball once again and get myself back

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I used to play rugby and I was in shape. Could run for hours and felt like I could take anybody on the field. I had abs!! Then I went back to grad school (at 210 lbs) and sat down for three years eating my way to a Masters degree in geology. I graduated with 30 extra pounds.

I then accepted a job in Houston, TX where I thought I would pick up the rugby ball once again and get myself back into shape. I tried three practices and I wasn't doing the team any favors so I quit. For the first time in my life, I quit a sport and it was solely due to fitness.

I was in Houston for almost 5 years weighed up to a whoppping 268 pounds. That's 58 pounds in six years or ~10 pounds a year added onto my frame.

Unbelievable.

As of 12/29/10, I weighed 256 pounds. I've cut out soda during lunch and super heavy meals late at night and, as a result, lost a little bit over the past few months. But I am out of shape which brings me back here...for the fourth time.

The first three times I made it a week or two and then stopped. I always let something get in the way...work, life, it didn't matter, I wouldn't resume my workouts. A full honest effort on my part, including the diet, which I find the hardest thing to correctly do, is the only thing that is called for here.

I want to get it done.

A bit more...I'm a native Chicagoan, I now work as a petroleum geologist with a major in Pittsburgh, PA. I have been in Pittsburgh a few short weeks as I write this. I love it here and this city has much to offer.

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