Me and my wife attended my boss’ daughter’s wedding this past weekend and for the occasion I had to get a new suit. I didn’t actually have a suit before, I had a jacket and some slacks but that was about it. I did have a tux from my wedding but for reasons that will became obvious in a moment I could not have worn that to the wedding. So we went to Banana Republic’s outlet store and got me a new suit, tie and shirts. I had to buy an entire new wardrobe pretty much in the past month and I’m very happy with it but it sure cost a pretty penny. The suit is the crown jewel of my new wardrobe and this is what I look like in it. I think I look pretty sharp if I say so myself.

I have tried to look for some recent photos of me in the monkey suit for comparison but I have failed. I could not find photos of me from recent years because I never wore one. I didn’t have one and I remember that I could not even wear the slacks that I had because they were so tight. So for the last couple of years I was wearing jeans even on holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving. I had to go all the way back to 2000 to find photos of me in a suit and even then it wasn’t trivial.

Here is me in my wedding tux from August, 2000. What a disgusting fat blob I was! I can’t even believe that my wife actually married me looking like that. She keeps telling me that she loves me fat or skinny but I’m still shocked that I looked like that on my wedding day. I distinctly remember that day. It was in the middle of August in the heat of the summer, temperature was over 95 degrees (35 C) and I was sweating my balls off in the heat. I felt very uncomfortable and unpleasant in the suit on my wedding day. I still have  the tux and the shirt I wore that day. The shirt looks like a circus tent on me and even if I would take the waist of the pants in they would still look like pants McHammer would wear, the legs are so wide and the bottom is so huge.

And if you thought I could not have looked any worse, here is a photo of me in slacks and a shirt with a tie around my neck from Christmas, 2000. My gut is huge and it’s rolling over my pants. I seriously have no idea how I could live like that. These photos just really hit home now. Looking at them makes me feel like I have wasted 10 years of my life being big. Who knows what kind of permanent damage I have caused with being this big for this long? Hopefully I still have managed to reverse most of it with my transformation and I can go on and live a happy and healthy life from now on.

So there you have it. A photo update of me in some pretty dapper suit and a walk down history lane just to compare how disgusting I had been looking for the past 10 years.