If He Can Exercise, So Can You!
Take a minute to watch the video contained within the link below:
If He Can Exercise, So Can You
This man has lost over 100 pounds and continues to hit the gym 5 days a week. A portion of his story is listed below (original source):
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Thirty-nine-year-old Jeff blames overeating for his all-time heaviest weight of 770 pounds. “I just wouldn’t quit eating,” he says. “When I’d get upset or nervous, food comforted me. I’d probably take 8,000 or 10,000 calories a day in. I could eat a bucket of chicken just like it wasn’t [anything].” Jeff finally had an aha! moment when he realized the toll his weight was taking on his health. “I’ve got to [lose weight] if I want to live, because I’ve almost died,” he says.
Jeff decided to revolutionize his lifestyle by limiting his food intake and starting an exercise regimen. Instead of chowing down on buckets of greasy, fried chicken, Jeff eats smaller portions of baked or grilled foods. Five days a week, Jeff hits the gym, where he does water aerobics and lifts weights. His hard work has paid off already—Jeff is down to 621 pounds. But he’s not done yet!
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In some ways, the story above is similar to this past entry. Both men embarked on major lifestyle changes. Jeff (from above) is still in the early stages, but is certainly on the right path. Neither man uses a revolutionary plan however. Instead, both men demonstrate, without question, that simplicity works. Exercise regularly and clean up your eating habits. Repeat the process and the results will come. It’s only a matter of time. It really is that simple.
Ross
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Thanks for providing us the inspiration, Ross…great stuff.
Andy
Saw another good one on CNN this morning:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/02/weightloss.brandon.hollas/index.html
Make sure to scroll through the pictures.
Good job.
I hope this guy keeps it up.
Keep going that man.
He looks like that rapper Fat Joe.
A true champion. I’m truly happy to see people doing thing s the right way and not turning to surgery and even more so letting it go to waste by not exercising after.
Hi,
I don’t mean to sound like someone jumping on the bandwagon but….
May 14th, 2007 I stepped on a scale and weighed in at 412 pounds with a 58 inch waist.
Today, I’m at 290 with a 44 inch waist and I’m not going to stop till I get to 250. That’s when I start turning it around and start bulking up. I’m planning on getting into power lifting and am well on my way currently up to a 400 pound dead lift and a 200 pound squat, over 300 pound shoulder shrugs AND being in a calorie deficit for the past 13 months.
What did it for me was the fact that I couldn’t stand to look at myself in the mirror any more, felt like Sh*t day in, day out, got winded just walking to my office from my car. The most exercise I got was jumping to conclusions and getting the run around at work.
I think though the thing that really hammered it home was my then fairly newborn son. He was born in November of 2006, the doctor looked at me in May of 07 and basically said he’d give me 6 months at most at the rate I was going. I wanted to be around to provide for my son, to be able to see him grow up and graduate high school, see him go on to college and to be a role model physically, mentally, emotionally…I didn’t want him to become what I had been. At 19 months old, ‘experts’ say that children at that age don’t remember, some things, but he remembers, he recalls things that happened several months ago. He sees things and he remembers them. I see him mimicking me when I’m working out and that makes me proud. He chooses fruit, nuts, oatmeal over candy, cakes and ice cream.
I joined a gym, hired a personal trainer and a nutritionalist (thank God the trainer and nutritionalist are one in the same). I’m now running two miles a day (when I couldn’t run more than 10 steps a year ago) and actually feel guilty when I miss a day at the gym or don’t get a chance to work out at home.
I’ve got more energy, more stamina (able to work sun up to sun down on my yard/house now) and found that being at the gym or working out is actually an anti-depressant for me.
Overall, the whole process for me is more of a journey. Something that I can look back on and say look what I did. Look at what I was, and look at what I am now. I took a pile of crap and turned it into something that I can be proud of.
Sorry if I’m on a soap box, or long winded, but I just wanted to get my story out for people to realize that it’s not just the ones that make the news, or not just the ones that are on the Biggest Loser that are out there doing it. Taking a skin filled with fat and sludge and turning it into something.