I'm glad to see this thread and if this stays active I'll continue to post here as well.
High School Weight: ~~240ish
College Weight: ~~260ish
Last Spring: ~~New Record 280ish
I've made a few changes mostly in my career which has me up and moving/lifting and not at a computer all day.
Weight As of 30 seconds ago: 265
At 6'3" I don't look that big in fact when I ask people they say I don't know 230 and never expect that I weigh so much.
I've never taken fitness seriously or ever tried to really get into good shape even when I played sports in school. I lifted and ran at practice but never did anything extra on my own. Even when I lifted it was just going through the motions and I'm not really a gym person. I just bought a home gym last week and am going to try to take things serious this year to get into the best shape of my life.
My Tools for success are
1) My Fitness Pal App (2600+ Calories to maintain current weight looking for 2400 daily to lose)
2) George Foreman Grill (Mostly just chicken I like to cook but hate to clean and this is easy to use)
3) Kitchen Scale (for correct serving/eating amounts)
4) Bowflex PR1000 Home Gym (Estimated delivery Tuesday 01/20/2016)
5) Using the "Portion Control Plate Method". I don't mind veggies but usually the meat/starch section takes 70% of plate and little veggies. Also the starch going to stick with whole wheats, beans, and high fiber things not high processed whites and sugar starches.
6) Other changes I don't eat a lot of fast food or drink much soda but I do go out to eat a lot (chinese, applebees, pizza, wings, mexican, and etc). Going to try to cut that down to 1 super splurge meal a week where I go HAM instead of every other day or several days in a row. I drink Arizona Tea 150 calories 39g sugar per 23oz can. I water it down though and drink it over 2-3 days instead of 1 24oz pepsi 250 calories 69g of sugar. Same for real non concentrate juice I do 1 or 2 parts water for 1 part juice.