Same here haha! But hokas are my every day shoes, so comfortable and around the same price as brooks. Yeah I was 304lbs at the start of this year, the wife (hard-core vegan) put me on a strict ass diet and I am 286lbs this morning 260 is my first goal then 245. My pops is 6'5 & 260. I shouldn't weigh more than him at 31 years old lol.
Good for you brotha! Drop those pounds! I've gained weight since moving from a very hot and humid climate. I was a working contractor and that burned a lot of calories. Not to mention, it's too hot to eat a lot! Always drop pounds in the summer as my diet changes, I was on the coast, so lots of lean seafood and where I am now, it's all meat and taters!
Sorry about the vegan thing! My wife is an ovo lacto pescatarian technically. We eat more vegetarian than not, but vegan is too hardcore for me to do full time. Need that bacon!