Hi everybody.
I would like to share pictures of my weightloss over the last two and a half year.
If you have every thought that diets would not work for you I'd like for you to know that I always thought the same way before. I tried a diet group here in town and lost about 25 lbs and after stopping the group I gained it back plus more besides, I have tried diet pills (Apple Cider) and they never did anything for me and so after all that I reached my top weight of 378 lbs wearing 2-3 XL in shirts and jackets and size 48 in jeans and they started to get tight. I did not want to even think about going to a size 50 in jeans, noway, nohow.
I was getting ready for work one morning and seen myself in the mirror and then and there I said "Enough is Enough" it's either take control of my life NOW or face health problems at my young age. I started cutting back on the junk foods and soda pop and doing a lot of walking and in almost two years I lost about 75 lbs and I felt great at what I have accomplished in that time. I was working alot of hours at work and that cut my walking time out and around March to June of 2007 I gained about 20 lbs back and this lowered my spirits for about two weeks then I told myself "I AM NOT GOING BACK THERE AGAIN" I got off work one day and looked up diets on google and came across an ad for the Joey Atlas Blow-torch weight loss diet plan that was on sale last summer and I ordered it asap. I checked out the info on this guy Joey Atlas and found out that he was a personal trainer for many people around the world and even celebs. Joey has his M.S. - Exercise Physiology and he has written books and appeared on Oprah. I have read comments that people have left for him where they have tried his diet plans and have been successful with it and they are keepig it off.
Joey shows us how to eat right and keep fit, not just for the diet now but for the rest of our lives. I believe those people now because I'm a little over 7 months on the diet and have lost 80 lbs and 14.55" off waist and I'm keeping it off. So now in two and a half years my total weight loss so far is 158 lBS and 28.72" off waist and my pants size have gone from tight 48" down to size 36" ad they are loose in the legs. I feel 110% with lost of energy and my blood pressure use to be up to 155 and now it's down to 117-122 which is awesome.
I want to thank Joey for sticking with me and giving me the advice and support needed to be successful not for my weight loss but for future endevours I am to face and how to handle them. My weight loss on his program gave me confidence to overcome anything life has to offer me and I know that I will overcome them with flying colors.
My weigh loss in the last few years have certainly impressed the people around me from family members, friends, co-workers and neighbours, I have never gotten so many compliments and praise on how I look and it makes me feel #1. My success has started some of these people to take action in their lives like I did. Some have started eating right, cutting back on junk foods, drinking water instead of soda's and walking more than driving and I'm so proud of them for going for it. My brother has even cut back and has lost weight too and I'm proud of him for it.
You don't know sometimes whose lives you touch in some little way to inspire them and I'm glad to be like a role model for them and I hope they continue to reach for their goals, I know I am.
I have come a long way in two and a half years and I'm NOT looking or going back to that dead end again, NEVER!
I hope my weight loss success will help people who are struggling to change their minds and get fit. Try Joey Atlas programs and you'll never be sorry. I have been a positive influence to manyof my friends and now they are taking control of their lives and living healthier. Joey has a book that came out on June 5th, 2008 called "Fatness to Fitness" and becuse of my huge success with one of his programs I'm proud to be part of his book and now I hope that it may help anyone who reads it and want's to take charge of their lives. The book can be ordered on www.amazon.com and the link to the book with my story on back cover is found here, www.yourfitnessbook.com
Take control of your life now before it's too late.
Keep Fit !
I have pics from my daily walks of the beautiful scenery and wildlife in the local Nature Trail/Wetland Park. www.freewebs.com/scenesofnature