Stress can stop your weight loss goals about as much as eating a family size bag of Nacho chips and a 2-Liter bottle of pop can.
My approach to weight loss was in gaining my health. Losing 300 pounds was not the first thing that occurred to me, but rather what could I do to get healthy and eat right. It was a very strange approach given that I was obviously clinically obese and immediately needed some quick weight loss.
I had no idea that our body used food in a very specific manor and that we could improve our energy levels by working with the body, not against it. There were some very specific rules to follow, so being the good student I followed them. It became a religion for me and as I preached it, I made many people quite crazy. I became an outcast because I had to prepare my food differently and would not eat with the gang at meal times. My food was prepared differently, eaten differently and eventually I even came to ask food servers to use different spatulas to flip my veggie burger from the grill.
I followed the rules and I increased my energy. I began eating better and my energy levels increased enough that my weight loss began and I started to...