I know I join many other members in offering you a warm welcome to the Board! Yes, you are in the right place, and I know you will continue to receive helpful information. I am a retired health-care professional, gay and just turned 70. Your desire to lose weight is a sound one, and a choice that will be worth it in living a healthy and fulfilling life. I am into bodybuilding, bodyshaving, tanning with tiny tan lines, and rio-style men's microbikinis. I love to cook and eat healthfully. I love to walk, and try to work aerobics into my daily life. My addition of the abdominal vacuum to my other ab work has produced a shield of abdominal muscle from bottom edge of pecs to shaft. My body is still a work in progress, and quite a ways from the pale, scrawny kid who got bullied quite often in the 1950s and '60s. I'm sure the guys will have many suggestions as to the best sources for Speedos and the like, but here are some tips to get started. Get something as skimpy as you like to start with and enjoy plenty of "Mirror Time" in the privacy of your home! Get used to the idea, feeling AND liberation of exposing so much of your body! Take a good look at yourself with this new point of view. Views on this next point vary, but here's mine: consider total bodyshaving (yes, even THERE
!) I use a PhilipsNorelco Bodygroom razor every few days (then smooth on some cocoa-butter lotion). I personally think the skimpier suits look better without pubic hair, but everyone has a personal preference. (My microbikini is the M73 from Skinz. I wear it straight across as low as possible in the front for maximum abdominal exposure. The top front edge rests right on top of my smooth shaft. If I'm "excited" by the "scenery"
, even more of the tanned, smooth shaft is visible
This size suit and the way I wear it showcases both my abs and my navel (which is located 9 inches above the shaft and is a focal point of pleasure). If you have access to a tanning bed and have no reason not to use one, consider getting some tan to enhance your appearance in your new skimpy suit. (I tan in my Rio because I like tiny tan lines;being a Rio, the top inch or so of my butt crack ain't pale, and that's fine with me!) Or throw caution to the wind and tan nude with a " cocksock " (available from Amazon). I try to take a holistic approach to everything in caring for my body and enjoying my life. And I think every member of the Board will agree when I say that the enjoyment of such "reasonable exhibitionism" will greatly increase your sense of, and enjoyment of, your sensuality and sexuality. Because they DO INDEED work together as a whole. The points made about where to best enjoy micro wear are spot on. If you have access to a beach where microwear is welcome, great! If you can visit a nude beach, also great! Anything to get you off to a comfortable and fulfilling start! Feel free to reach out to me by Private Message if you like, and I can give you some diet and exercise tips. Good luck, and keep us informed of your progress!