This guy lost 200 pounds- anyone know if hes on here?

JasonSwetland

Whoa: This chick came up with a scheme to get her tubby hubby to start loosing weight- whoever lost he most weight would get their name tatooed on their spouse. He won. He lost 200 Pounds.

I wonder if hes on MFP. http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/11/fulton_man_loses_198_pounds_in_10_months_wins_bet_with_wife.html

ElizabethRoad

I don't know if he's on here, sorry, but that's pretty impressive!

One thing I always wonder about, though. When someone eats such a staggering amount of food, isn't there more to it than just enjoying food? I would think there is some kind of emotional need there. So how could they just suddenly stop that and eat a normal diet, without addressing the underlying problem?

hdhbam

If the winner had to get the spouses name tattooed on them, I would lose that competition on purpose.

lloydrt

not sure if hes on here jason, but I read his story as well. I guess thats the definition of determination. He did great. I read your profile, how are your liver functions today, after your weight loss..........Im asking because at one time I had elevated liver functions as well, but since I ve lost , they are now normal.......also, how are your triglicirides and cholesterol.......I know they all are common and affect each other, just wonder if youve had new blood work? Great job on your weigh loss.........Lloyd

chrisja

lol. Ditto @ hdhbam...lol

ElizabethRoad

If the winner had to get the spouses name tattooed on them, I would lose that competition on purpose.

The loser had to get the spouse's name tattooed on them.

Namaste1983

I SERIOUSLY WISH THIS LINK WASN'T BLOCKED... CAN SOMEONE POST IT. I WANT TO SEE IT

idshields24

That was a wonderful story and an inspiration. Makes me want to keep striving for my goal.

JasonSwetland

not sure if hes on here jason, but I read his story as well. I guess thats the definition of determination. He did great. I read your profile, how are your liver functions today, after your weight loss..........Im asking because at one time I had elevated liver functions as well, but since I ve lost , they are now normal.......also, how are your triglicirides and cholesterol.......I know they all are common and affect each other, just wonder if youve had new blood work? Great job on your weigh loss.........Lloyd

Hey thanks Lloyd. My Liver test panel came back pretty good about a month ago, the 'agst' and billyrubin and all that stuff had started to normalize. I still get the bloodshot eyes and everyonce in a while a funny tint to my skin but not like before. Tomorrow Is my retest of Cholesterol and triglycerides, which will be the first repeat of the Lipid panel, and they will redo the liver panel as well.

I expect that my Cholesterol panel will show signifigant improvement based on the dietary change, and Ill probably post all the results in a forum to show other people with liver problems that it makes a difference to eat healthy. Thank you for asking!

Sweetcheeks278

Very inspiring, thanks for sharing.

JasonSwetland

I SERIOUSLY WISH THIS LINK WASN'T BLOCKED... CAN SOMEONE POST IT. I WANT TO SEE IT

OMG Namaste!!! I just realized your ticker says you lost 238 pounds! Congratulations what an achievement!!! I want to see an article on you!!! Im not sure how to embed a link here, can you cut and paste the link:


http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/11/fulton_man_loses_198_pounds_in_10_months_wins_bet_with_wife.html

Good job on your fitness goals!!!

groovybeenz

http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/11/fulton_man_loses_198_pounds_in_10_months_wins_bet_with_wife.html

Don't know why the end keeps cutting off it's supposed to be wife.html

mamafrahm

I SERIOUSLY WISH THIS LINK WASN'T BLOCKED... CAN SOMEONE POST IT. I WANT TO SEE IT

highlight the link, copy it into your search bar, at the end will be a .h just at the tml and it should work! that's what I did

amfmmama

bump, I need to look at this when I am not at work.

Johnnyswife

Here is the article:



Even after losing nearly 200 pounds in the last 10 months, Jay Wornick, 30, of Fulton, often still feels like the big guy he had always been. Although he now weighs 168 pounds, Jay still sizes up restaurant booths, silently questioning whether or not he'll fit, and he's surprised when he's jostled and pushed around in crowds -- something that never happened when he truly was a big guy.

On Jan. 1, Wornick and his wife, Angela, kicked off a New Year's resolution and weight-loss challenge Angela had cooked up. The deal was, they would both try to lose weight and whoever lost the lowest percentage of body weight would be required to have the other person's name tattooed on his or her body.

When Jay stepped on the scale that first time, it read 366 pounds.

"I almost passed out," Jay said. "We actually had to go buy a bigger scale, because the one we had just kept (saying 'error'). I thought it was broken, but it could only weigh up to 330 pounds.

"Back then, a regular meal for me was a 20-ounce steak and three potatoes, and I drank 12 to 14 Mountain Dews every day. I would just eat until I couldn't move, basically," Jay said.

He met Angela Doran in 2004, and they married in 2009. Angela, a licensed practical nurse, watched Jay gain almost 100 pounds in the their years together. She warned Jay about diabetes and heart disease, and gently but unsuccessfully invited him to join her when she exercised at the YMCA. But she had no clue how bad his problem was.

"There were times when Angela would go to bed and I would get two large pizzas, a box of Ho Hos and a 12-pack of soda," Wornick said, "and I would eat it all by myself at like 1 in the morning after eating huge meals all day." He also recalled going to fast food restaurants to pick up food for the family, where he would gorge on two triple cheeseburgers and two chicken sandwiches in the parking lot before returning home to eat another smaller meal with the family. "She never knew," Jay said.



Submitted photoJay Wornick


While Jay was getting bigger and bigger, he never weighed himself. "When people would say, 'Wow! You're a big guy! How much do you weigh?' I would say, '300 pounds,' but I was trying to cover up," Wornick said, "I never really knew. I had to keep buying bigger clothes, but I never saw myself getting bigger."

When Angela proposed the challenge, she assumed Jay would blow it off and she would be the winner. "I've always been active -- played softball, went to the gym three or four days a week. I hoped it would motivate him, because I didn't want to nag him."

Jay didn't take the challenge seriously at first. "I thought I would lose 20 or 30 pounds, then just gain it back," Jay said.

But after the first month, Jay had lost 40 pounds. He decided to keep going. After the second month, he had lost another 30 pounds. The rapid weight loss helped Jay greet each new day with anticipation and kept him motivated to keep losing.

As of Monday, he has lost 198 pounds -- two pounds away from his 200-pound goal.

After he lost 75 to 85 pounds, Jay, who doesn't smoke or drink, went to see his doctor for blood work. "I wanted her to monitor it all," Jay said. "It was encouraging because all of my blood work was perfect, even though I had abused my body and I hadn't seen a doctor in 10 years."



John Berry / The Post-Standard Jay Wornick of Fulton, who lost 198 pounds (as of 11/7/11) since January by changing his diet and exercising, works out at the Fulton Family YMCA.


Jay attributes his dramatic weight loss to eating 1,500 to 2,000 calories a day, loading up on high-fiber foods, fruits and vegetables, lean meats and water instead of the 7,000 or 8,000 calories a day he and Angela estimate he had been consuming before starting the challenge. Jay also works out at the Fulton Family YMCA two hours a day, six days a week, doing an hour of cardio and an hour of weight training each day.

"The Y has been a huge support system for me," Jay said. "They're very friendly and welcoming, very helpful."

Jay lost his job as manager of a local movie rental store a year and a half ago. He and Angela take classes at Cayuga Community College. Jay is working toward a history degree, and hopes to be a museum curator and a personal trainer. Angela will soon be a registered nurse. She works part-time at the college while Jay primarily takes care of the kids -- Marcus, 9, Allyson, 8, and Jayce, 4 -- and the house.

"I couldn't afford a nutritionist or a personal trainer," Jay said. "People think they need all that stuff, which is great if you can afford it. I just wanted to see what I could do myself. I Google everything and get a lot of diet tips from 'The Dr. Oz Show.'"

Angela, who describes herself as Jay's biggest cheerleader, shared his story with producers at the show, and Jay taped a 30-second clip to be aired some time in the next couple weeks.

"If he hadn't made a change, he wouldn't have lived to be 50. It means everything to me that he will be here to see our three children grow up, to see our grandchildren, to walk my daughter down the aisle some day," Angela said.

Since Jay won the couple's weight loss challenge, Angela will have Jay's name tattooed on her back as soon as she has the time to do it. But Jay also got a tattoo -- a tattoo of a wedding band on his ring finger -- because his titanium wedding band kept flying off his hand and couldn't be properly sized to fit his now slender finger.

Jay said he wasn't comfortable the way he was, nearly 200 pounds ago. "Don't get me wrong, the food was delicious and I loved eating, but I was sweating and out of breath just walking up eight stairs. I was like a bear waking up in the morning. I'd get out of bed and go straight to the couch to lay down for another hour. I had a 50-inch waist, now I wear 28 and 30-inch waist pants. I was wearing 6XL shirts, now I wear large or XL. Every time I went anywhere, I always scanned the room or the restaurant and I'd think to myself, 'Yup, I'm the fattest one here.' I felt horrible about myself; I felt like everyone was staring at me."

Jay said he encouraged Angela and their children to do things and to have fun without him. He didn't want to join them because he was embarrassed by how big he was. He also couldn't do things that others didn't think twice about. Jay recalls an outing at Darien Lake, when, as everyone looked on, a ride operator removed him from the ride because he was too big to close the safety restraint.

Angela and their children love how much energy Jay has now. "We went camping for the first time this summer," Angela said. "He's able to swim and play with them, to run around and throw a ball. He had never been active with us before."

"My oldest son always tells me how proud he is of me, and the youngest shows off his muscles and announces he's going to work out," Jay said.

"I never thought I'd be able to stay with it, but I have not cheated in over 10 months, not once," Jay said. "I've turned it into my lifestyle. It's not a diet. To me, it's just how I live now.

"I want overweight people to know that there's hope. You don't have to give up or settle, you can be healthy and active. I know what you feel like."

Namaste1983

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS.
HOW SWEET IS IT THAT HE GOT THE RING TATTOO?
THIS WAS A GREAT READ
THANKS AGAIN JOHNNYSGIRL. IT WAS A BLOCKED LINK AT MY WORK

DDsMrs

I'm from Baldwinsville NY and Jay was in our local newspaper for his weight loss. WOW! I'm happy a local story made it to this MPF community!

Johnnyswife

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS.
HOW SWEET IS IT THAT HE GOT THE RING TATTOO?
THIS WAS A GREAT READ
THANKS AGAIN JOHNNYSGIRL. IT WAS A BLOCKED LINK AT MY WORK

Anytime!:flowerforyou: