How Being Overweight & Alcoholic Changed My Life

June 22, 2010 By Mark

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What happened

Sometimes in life things happen to us, we don’t necessarily want them to, but they do, nonetheless. About eight years ago I was somewhere I never expected to be, a couple of years beforehand I was in a job that I hated. It wasn’t necessarily the job itself more so the company and some of the people working there.

So one day the time came, and I decided that enough was enough, I handed in my notice in, and didn’t have a job to go to, because I knew exactly what to expect this probably made matters worse.

I had always to some extent had a bit of a thing for alcohol, every time something went wrong or wasn’t exactly how I wanted to be I turned to alcohol. In order to squash the negative feelings that I was having at the time.

Over the years, this gradually built up it wasn’t always a permanent thing but the roots were starting to take a grip. Because I had lost a lot of jobs in the past and history was repeating itself yet again. This was probably the last straw for me.

In the wilderness

Everything from this point forward things started to go rapidly downhill, as it got nearer and nearer to the time when I left my job, I was starting to drink almost every day, this became something of a ritual, six months went by, and eventually I decided that I needed to do something, so I started to look for a job. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts nothing came of it, this just compounded things, and I drunk even more.

Eventually it caught up with me although at the time I didn’t know it was the alcohol that had done it. However, I had this confirmed by a visit to the doctors by having some blood tests done. It had affected my liver, once I found out about this, I stopped drinking immediately.

For a good few many years because of this my health went up and down and all over the place like I have never known before, eventually things did start come right it didn’t happen overnight. In 2006 because of what happened to me, I was very overweight as a consequence of my liver being the way it was.

I was constantly eating all the time I always seemed to be hungry that is how I became overweight in the first place, in August of 2006 being as I was trying to lose some weight. I thought it would be a good idea to have a way to track my progress, so I set up a blog on the blogger platform and started to track my progress.

With weekly weigh ins and wrote the odd post about what I was eating and various other things. This particular year was a turning point for me because it was the first time getting towards the end of the year where I was starting to feel quite normal. Apart from one tragic event which was losing my father.

Things changed

In 2007 I ended up on antidepressants due to the tragic event of losing my father at Christmas. About summertime is when I went on them, and gradually I started to feel better and began to see the world from a different perspective.

At the end of July in the same year someone told me to sign up for something called the 30 day challenge, which, in a nutshell, is a way to learn how to promote a site or a blog on the Internet and earn 10 dollars within the 30 day period.

When I was doing this something changed in me, and I felt alive for the first time in a long time, it gave me such a huge confidence boost. That I decided to lease the domain lose losethattyre.co.uk and that was the start of my journey of change. As far as this blog is concerned this year has been one of the best as far as traffic levels are concerned.

And it continues to popup on various sites on the Internet, in all honesty, I think this is only just the start, so now you know how something bad can cause something good to happen. I can say without doubt what is happening to me now is definitely changing my life. So really I am quite glad I was overweight, because if I wasn’t this blog would never have come to exist.

You can do it

The moral of this post is even if things aren’t as you want them to be change is always possible no matter how bad things can seem at the time. And in the closing I hope this post will give hope to people and inspire them to become what they want to be. Whether it to be happier, determined, and who you truly are.