536 days with MFP and 300.8lbs lost

anl90 · September 2018

This is amazing! Congratulations on your success, I am super proud of you!!

christinedlg50 · September 2018

Incredible! Your story is soooooo inspirational! Can’t wait for you to share more of your journey! We all need success stories to keep us motivated! 🎉🎊🌺

crzycylr · September 2018

Woohoo!! Good for you! Thanks so much for sharing. After seeing your pictures, no wonder your doctor didn't recognize you.

gstaubs1 · September 2018

Absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing!

rptreglia · September 2018

crzycylr wrote: »

Woohoo!! Good for you! Thanks so much for sharing. After seeing your pictures, no wonder your doctor didn't recognize you.

Now I need to go to a high school reunion and see if people recognize me lol

kgb6days · September 2018

YAY!!!! This is awesome! I am so excited for you and your wife as you discover all the benefits of healthier eating and weight loss. Enjoy every minute of your life!

rptreglia · September 2018

kgb6days wrote: »

YAY!!!! This is awesome! I am so excited for you and your wife as you discover all the benefits of healthier eating and weight loss. Enjoy every minute of your life!

I have enjoyed life more in the past year than I probably have in ages.

Our vacation to New Orleans was the best vacation we ever took. We have gone to the Caribbean multiple times but because I was so much more active New Orleans was amazing.

Joining the gym has been fun too, I am liking lifting weights and my wife likes the water aerobics too. Life is great

Smart_Beautiful_and_Strong · September 2018

Congratulations!! You have done a great job! Thank you for posting your story I really needed a shot of motivation. Any tips you can offer?

cjv73 · September 2018

Fantastic job, congratulations!

rptreglia · September 2018

Smart_Beautiful_and_Strong wrote: »

Congratulations!! You have done a great job! Thank you for posting your story I really needed a shot of motivation. Any tips you can offer?

I meal prepped because I won’t buy fast food if I have food cooked already at home. I do the online Walmart grocery shopping and don’t buy junk food, that way it’s not in the house. I only drink water, my wife will drink pop still.

I always scour YouTube for videos of what healthy meals people are cooking and try to replicate them. I limit my red meat intake but that’s only because I love chicken a lot more than red meat. I also hate the smell of raw meat cooking, it turns my stomach.

I also have veggies with my meals and eat them first that way if I’m full I had all the healthier food first.

etfan · September 2018

Awe-inspiring!!!! Congrats and thanks for sharing!

eminater · September 2018

O.M.G ... Just ... OMG!

eminater · September 2018

rptreglia wrote: »

Smart_Beautiful_and_Strong wrote: »

Congratulations!! You have done a great job! Thank you for posting your story I really needed a shot of motivation. Any tips you can offer?

I meal prepped because I won’t buy fast food if I have food cooked already at home. I do the online Walmart grocery shopping and don’t buy junk food, that way it’s not in the house. I only drink water, my wife will drink pop still.

I always scour YouTube for videos of what healthy meals people are cooking and try to replicate them. I limit my red meat intake but that’s only because I love chicken a lot more than red meat. I also hate the smell of raw meat cooking, it turns my stomach.

I also have veggies with my meals and eat them first that way if I’m full I had all the healthier food first.

Love your tips! I am amazed you went from not cooking at home to meal prepping. It literally saved your life! Also like the idea of on-line shopping, you avoid any temptations. It's incredible that you basically just TOOK CHARGE of your life. Well done to the both of you.

fbcarlson · September 2018

What an amazing journey you have had so far! So inspiring! Just what I needed as I start my own journey all over again. Thank you so much for sharing!
I hope you and your wife have a great time in Disney!

rptreglia · September 2018

eminater wrote: »

rptreglia wrote: »

Smart_Beautiful_and_Strong wrote: »

Congratulations!! You have done a great job! Thank you for posting your story I really needed a shot of motivation. Any tips you can offer?

I meal prepped because I won’t buy fast food if I have food cooked already at home. I do the online Walmart grocery shopping and don’t buy junk food, that way it’s not in the house. I only drink water, my wife will drink pop still.

I always scour YouTube for videos of what healthy meals people are cooking and try to replicate them. I limit my red meat intake but that’s only because I love chicken a lot more than red meat. I also hate the smell of raw meat cooking, it turns my stomach.

I also have veggies with my meals and eat them first that way if I’m full I had all the healthier food first.

Love your tips! I am amazed you went from not cooking at home to meal prepping. It literally saved your life! Also like the idea of on-line shopping, you avoid any temptations. It's incredible that you basically just TOOK CHARGE of your life. Well done to the both of you.

I loved cooking but I had grand illusions of what was actually healthy. I just assumed if it was home cooked it was healthy. Our favorite meal was splitting a pound of pasta with hot sausage ground up in the sauce. Tasted fantastic but doing the math it was like over 3k calories.