How I lost 360lbs in 15 months - with photos

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  • HealthyWarrior
    HealthyWarrior Posts: 394 Member
    You truly are amazing. You're lucky to have a friend like Jackie in your life. Keep up your hard work. You are truly an inspiration.
  • 2199216
    2199216 Posts: 15 Member
    You are truly a blessing to me. am so glad I read your story. I desire to lose weight and I am constantly struggling and I guess what you did was make a conscience decision to lose weight and not go back. Wow your weight lost has really inspired me and it shows me that I can lose weight despite what people say. I must talk positively to myself and know that I have a goal and stick to it. I really like the fact that you gave yourself different goals to strive for like the marathons. thank you for your help
  • roxigirl89
    roxigirl89 Posts: 39 Member
    You did so well. Congratulations on your amazing progress! :happy:
  • Pheandrea
    Pheandrea Posts: 2 Member
    Wow! This is awesome. You are an inspiration.
  • arenad
    arenad Posts: 142 Member
    Wow, your story is so inspirational. I m so happy for you and you deserve to be happy also. Congrats!!
  • brian3245
    brian3245 Posts: 71 Member
    I am now 249.6 - officially into the 240's!! 375.4lbs lost! :-)))
  • chrissyhook
    chrissyhook Posts: 2 Member
    You look Amazing! Congrats!
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    wow. that's amazing!!
  • karmasays
    karmasays Posts: 82 Member
    You're amazing!

    Thank you for keeping your story around, I pretty much read it every day, it motivates me a lot!

    Keep up the great work.
  • nicol150
    nicol150 Posts: 8 Member
    Thank you for sharing! I am new and you are inspirational!
  • 93nan
    93nan Posts: 130
    What a great story of courage, success and happiness! :drinker:
  • Rainbowtop74
    Rainbowtop74 Posts: 24 Member
    thanks for sharing :smile: i can only hope to do as well as you.
  • daniellabella986
    daniellabella986 Posts: 325 Member
    Thank you so much for sharing, this is probably one of the best success stories I've seen so far. Congratulations, you look fantastic!!!!
  • kammyrios
    kammyrios Posts: 47 Member
    WOW! Congratulations!!! I am amazed at your transformation! I have a question maybe you can answer? I have about 100 pounds to lose. I recently started running.. errr trying to run. I am having a terrible time trying to breath. I ran around the track once for the first time today. I thought my heart was going to explode and was breathing about 75 times a minute and my lungs felt like I had inhaled acid. Did this happen to you? How long can I expect to have to endure this before running becomes comfortable? I don't mean lazy boy chair comfortable, just able to breathe without feeling like I am dying. I see people running lap after lap, and I so want to be able to do that. Any tips?
  • joesimtre
    joesimtre Posts: 48 Member
    Beautiful story. Congrats and much respect for the hard work and sacrifice. It's very inspirational
  • grrupp
    grrupp Posts: 159 Member
    Wow Brian what an AMAZING and INSPIRATIONAL man you are!!!!! Reading your testimony ans seeing your pictures literally brought me to tears. You should be incredibly Proud of yourself and how fortunate to find a friend like Jackie to help you through and being blant with you when you needed it most. I wish you all the luck in the world and congrats!!!!!
    P.s. thank you, you helped motivate me with your story :)
  • newyanni2014
    newyanni2014 Posts: 1
    You are truly an inspiration .God bless you and all your hard work. !! You look amazing and overall, happy.
  • brian3245
    brian3245 Posts: 71 Member
    Hey Kammy,

    I'd recommend you try interval training. There's a great free app out there call Couch-to-5k that trains you to run in brief spurts and helps build up your endurance. It worked wonders for me. I had the same problem - I was 290-300 when I first started running. It was tough! The app starts around 30 seconds per duration; so you run 30 seconds, walk 2 minutes, run 30 seconds... repeat. It gradually adds time to it until about 5 or 6 weeks into it, you'll be running 15-20-and even 30 minute intervals. It works really well!

    Let me know if I can be of any help!

    - Brian
  • CharzieGirl
    CharzieGirl Posts: 44
    Holy crap!!!!! What an inspiration you are! Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment, and I wish you many more successes in your life :)
  • elohnes
    elohnes Posts: 3 Member
    im just under a month in and your story is really inspired me to keep going!
  • Fit4_Life
    Fit4_Life Posts: 828 Member
    What an AMAZING journey you've had, Brian! And a woman that stayed by your side this whole time, knowing that you were struggling with a variety of different battles in life and was there to motivate and give you courage..Yay Jackie! You look fantastic! So very proud of you Brian! Just loved your story.
  • valente347
    valente347 Posts: 201 Member
    Your story is so amazing! The photos brought tears to my eyes. Congratulations!!
  • blessedwith3boys
    blessedwith3boys Posts: 136 Member
    Congratulations on your weight loss! Jackie sounds like a god sent. It's wonderfully motivating that you lost all this weight and without the help of surgery! Thank you for sharing your story, the good, the bad and the happy.
  • stevesilk
    stevesilk Posts: 204 Member
    Congratulations Brian. You had plenty of times where you could have quit and you didn't! Keep up the great work.
  • stevesilk
    stevesilk Posts: 204 Member
    Congratulations Brian. You had plenty of times where you could have quit and you didn't! Keep up the great work.
  • EricMurano
    EricMurano Posts: 825 Member
    Dude you're handsome! Nice work!
  • austinartgirl
    austinartgirl Posts: 26 Member
    Mad respect Brian. I'm so glad that I read your post... and I'm signed up for next years Austin Half-Marathon! I am so inspired. Thank-you!
  • Kimdbro
    Kimdbro Posts: 922 Member
    Thanks for sharing your incredible story!!
  • playadelcarmen2
    playadelcarmen2 Posts: 38 Member
    You are very inspirational, I am so glad I took the time to read your story, it truly brought tears to my eyes. For that you get my first post. Best of luck to you, in your journey.
  • joyceiheartnews
    joyceiheartnews Posts: 1
    Wow! I was also big, before using fitness pal! I was 337 pounds on July 2012, I started exercising, and doing the not so healthy diet of mine (killer diet, almost not eating) to lose weight and gain confidence. I did the insanity workout twice a day, morning and at night. I lost 207 lbs in 6 and a half months. It was suicidal.


    Anyways, You are a inspiration to all of the people like s before, you are an example of a person who is dedicated and has a goal achieved!

    I am still on my journey to being fit, well, stay fit. Because once we started this lifestyle, we will die with it.

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