And the gears keep turning...

Well as you can tell by the story I got bigger, the problem got out of hand and I was stuck holding the bag. Well to say the least I had to do something about my situation or DIE and that was simply the decision I was faced with. Well since my mom didn't raise no quitter I decided to LIVE, plain and simple I decided I wanted to live. I wanted to have a child, raise a family, have a good wife. All those things that were taken away from me by a thief in tight dress I wanted back and this was the way I was going to do it. So I decided that I neede to get my own place, well that needed money..something I had no way of earning in any way shape or form since over the last 5 yrs everything had been provided for me so I applied for Social Security Disability and after 8 months of fighting for that, being turned down 3 times I finially went to an arbitration hearing and WON. Ya I guess me being 800+ lbs didnt quaalify me as being unable to work even though I had seen 5 of thier Dr's all whom had said I was disabled to the tune of 70-80%.

Well I had been down before in my life but never like this, so after I got the disability I found a small little single Apt. in Van Nuys Calif. right off of Van nuys Blvd and Magnolia for $450.00 a month shit my check every month was only a little over $500 so I neede to supliment my income by working out of the house for a company named Kapilow & Son. They we're public Insurance adjusters based out of Santa Monica Calif. and they neede a person to read the FIRE calls that the fire Dept. had been called out to over night and for me to find all the "Juscy" fires and route and send the adjusters out on the call with all the owners info from micro ficsh and everything else I could find on them. Well this helped out to the tune of $600 more a month so I was now supporting myself with a little left over.

But I still had 1 BIG problem, I was still 800lbs and did not know where to turn, so I turned to the only person I knew I could trust and that was MYSELF. Now despite all the shit I had been thru over the last 5 yrs I still had the bacis skills of what I learned plaing football for Amherst high just outside of Buffalo NY. I knew I had to exersize and get my body moving again. Well the place I lived was a small. old apt building on Tilden Ave. and it had a pool. So every day I would waddle myself to the edge of the step, sit on the top step and slide my butt down 1 step at a time down the stairs till I got to the bottom. Embarassing HELL YES, necessary HELL YES, and I would take my shirt off embarrassing as all hell since I had tits bigger then most ladies in the bldg. And I would just roll off the side of the pool into the water and there I would stay for dam near most of the day. MAN did I have the best tan in town..I swear.

Well I did this day in and day out, every day down the stairs 1 ass cheek at a time and up the stairs the same exact way. You see the weight on my legs was too much to risk falling down the stairs and seriously injuring myself. And I'll tell you getting in that water was like floating on the moon, since you are 1/3rd your weight in water my whole body would just go AWWWWW at the mere weight being taken off my joints, back, knees, hips everything started to feel better. I dropped weight for about the first 2 months at the rate of 1 lb a day as near as I could figure and my body was bouncing back nicely. I have a very good personality when it comes to talking and meeting people, so it was easy for me to get to know the neighbors who saw me everyday swimming in the water. I'd babysit, well pool sit the kids since I was always there. You see I floated like a dam bouy and I had some good float in me. You could put 3 kids on my shoulders and my head would not go under water...funny shit but the FAT has a lot of air in it so I floated.

Well as the months passed I was feeling good, finially bought a van a 1976 Dodge van with a unicorn painted on the side of it. Rumor was from the previous owner that the base player for the band MONTROSE owned it and he had the painting done. Now I dont know if tis was true or not but I do know the paiting was habd done and well done to boot. Faded in spots but I will dig up a pic and post it up here as soon as I start digging. I would keep track of my weight loss by gettingin the back of my friend pick up and eventually my van and driving down to the post office In Burbank Calif. where I would go and get weighed on a scale that was used to weigh pallets of packages and mail that would come off the big trucks. This is how I knew I started out at the huge weight of 800+. Now the 800 lbs is just a very educated guess since I did not have access to the scale till after I was in the process of losing the weight. But my first official weigh in at the post office was 786lbs so wasnt hard to figure that I had dropped 40-50 lbs in the first month and a half of swimmin.

Well folks as you can see I am on my way to getting better but this story is only beginning. There is a lot of work yet to be done to get where I am sitting today and a lot of you I know are just dying to hear it but I can only give it to you a little at a time. But I am going to be adding some video here so accompany this story and some audio I did doing radio interviews around the country. So thanks again for the support and tell you friend I, hoping to be on Oprah and Dr Phil real soon....they have contacted me but that dont mean to much..at least not yet.

Well God Bless and thanks again...

The cabbie back @ ya soon.