So I was at work assisting someone that was denied health insurance coverage the other day. They had minor medical issues and were a little high on the BMI risk chart. When I hung up, I pulled out the underwriting guidelines to look up the BMI chart and the risk classifications. After looking up their weight on the chart, I decided to look up mine.  Well the ole chart says I fall into the “Morbidly Obese” risk section. Now I’m a big guy but not in the gets-winded-just-going-to-the-fridge way. I couldn’t believe what I was reading….that I had let myself go so much to fall into this category. Fortunately I’m only a few pounds away from not being in the MO category. So being a new dad and realizing I need to get me arse out of the category, I have motivated myself to finally lose weight! I have started Weight Watchers and decided to get into running. I’ve also instructed my wife to call me MO if I start to lean away from my weight loss goals. I’m going to use my blog to note my progress and struggles over the next year.

Sorry to all my Facebook friends that have been curious as to what Operation MO was and thinking it was some big revenge scenario that I was planning.

So here we go………