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Greetings and salutations, My name is Brian Greene. I am a helpdesk/tech support agent for Real Living realtors as well as an independent author and a podcast host. More importantly for the purpose of my being here and speaking with you, I am fat. Huge. I am over 300 pounds large. I have been miserable for years now. Two years ago I had an accident in a store while trying on clothing and my back gave out. I went to a hospital and was told I had several herniated disks in my back and that I was being diagnosed with Degenerative Disk Disease. I became depressed over the issue and sank further into a slump in my health. Here it is two years later and my issue is getting worse. I have had several back problems that have caused me to go to the ER and to be bed ridden for periods of time. Currently I am in a position to work off the excess weight. I refuse to do the American thing and simply get operated on; that's deplorable behavior. I have decide, instead, to turn this into a project to share with others in hopes of educating people in the same position I am in. Currently, I am a fat, lazy American that has devoted my life to striving for the American Dream of excess like most of us in this country. I have woke up from that dream to the reality of the world I have created for myself and for the people I love. It is my goal to lose 100 pounds in the six months that I will be working on recording this project. My current weight, embarrassingly enough, is around 325 pounds. It fluctuates on any given day, but roughly around 3 hundred and a quarter. I wake up sick to my stomach, I hurt, I ache, I am losing a battle with my back, I am nauseous on a daily basis, and I am extremely tired all the time. I used to be energetic and full of life. I would like to regain my health and move back towards that lifestyle before it is too late. I mentioned a podcast and a documentary. I work with othermediaproductions.com as a pod cast host and an independent author/blogger and they have greenlit my project for production. I am calling it Obesity: The True American Dream. It will be posted here: othermediaproductions.com/odmain.html This is a two part project. Part A. will be a weekly posted podcast recording about my work at losing weight. I will be discussing methods I have read about and the diet plan(s) I will be utilizing during the project. I will be having guests on the show; other people that have been fat and lost the weight as well as people that are currently going through what I am going through telling their personal stories. I will be reading letters that people have written me about their own struggles and successes. The video documentary will be posted once the entire project is complete and I have lost the weight I set out to lose or the six months go by and I have failed to lose it. Either way, I will be putting out the most honest portrayal of being fat in America in the present day that I can. I will be discussing topics on the podcast such as "Why do we eat outside of needing sustenance?", "What is emotional eating and why do we do it?", "Why does the American Dream try to tell us that we need excess in our lives and how does that lead to a nation of overweight people?", "The pain of being fat, both physical and emotional.", "The pressures faced on a daily basis due to being fat.", as well as other topics relating to being an overweight American in our society. I would like you to participate in my project. If you have something to put in my podcast, a letter, a thought, a tip, a weight loss plan that you feel everyone should know about, and, most importantly, if you have been morbidly obese and have struggled to overcome your issues I would like it Very, very much if you would write to me and let me know. Outline what worked, what didn't, your emotional state over the course of your weight loss struggle, the experiences you faced while being fat in our society (Let's face it, society has not been kind to fat people.), and the biggest temptations you faced from the media, and from society in general, while you were losing your weight. I will keep your identity anonymous if you ask me to, otherwise I will be reading letters and identifying the first name and the initial of the last name of anyone that writes in as well as the state they are from. Please, send your letters here: obesitytad@othermediaproductions.com My hope is that I can, not only lose my own weight and save my life, but help others wake up from the American Dream of excess as well. Together we can make a difference. Sincerely, Brian Greene Other Media Productions obesitytad@othermediaproductions.com Last edited on 19 Feb 2012 02:43 pm by |
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