Big Elvis

As usual I landed on this page through complete happenstance:

Big Elvis: Big man, big voice - Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun


Big Elvis, formerly the 900 pound man, has lost half his body weight through diet and exercise.

Fuck how hard is that? the deal is when a person loses that much weight the pure pain of hunger is intolerable. the stomach constantly begging for food, the spine crunching feeling of starvation, this guy had to have gone through hell. and he wants to lose another buck and a half and get down to my weight of 250.

I recently went to a V.A. appointment due to a growth on my tonsil, ( months away from any conclusion there, go go V.A. care!) and the doctor didn't waste any time mentioning that my weight could use a bit of work also. He reminded me of a liver enzyme issue that they want to do an ultrasound and explore and something about stage two diabetes (eh?) My blood pressure was 150+ over something hideous a couple years ago but through ignoring it and eating whatever I feel like and exercising only on full moons I've managed to get it down to 124 over 72. I give full credit to my wife and our 6 month old son to be completely honest.

So 220 pounds at 13 500 by my age and he aims to be my weight one day down from 900. I wish big Elvis luck, though at this point it seems he had it all along and in Vegas at that.