First Weigh In
Welcome to roly-poly weight loss. I’m Roly Poly. And I’m inviting you to join me on my - our - weight loss journey.
To start with, we are going to get a “before” - Weight, measurements, photographic evidence, all that jazz. So I have been on the dreaded scale. And I’m going to announce my current weight to all of the internet.
Okay, so I am 273.6 pounds. And that’s my heaviest ever weight.
Now, I’m also going to do another very scary thing, which is show my “before” self.
So this is my requisite sad, roly-poly, unhappy, before photo. This is me, right now. And it is sad, and unhappy, and roly-poly.
But! There’s a more important word in that sentence. It’s “before”. And it's gonna change. I’m not gonna be this way anymore. And that’s scary, but it’s time. And that’s the part that I invite you to join me on.
In the vein of John Oliver’s #MutuallyAssuredHumiliation, to make the internet a safer place, I’m doing the same. As he put it,
“If we all put our worst photo into the world together, none of us will ever be in a position to judge anyone else, ever again.”
I believe in the same idea here. I am sharing my “before” with the hashtag “#BeforeTogether”.
Because I think that scarier than sharing what you look like right now is doing nothing and never having an “After” to compare it to. So like I said, submit your befores, and we’ll all get to an after.
So let’s do this! Take your own photos! Take your own videos! Share your scale shots. It’s scary, but I did it first! Use #BeforeTogether, and @ me!
