I lost 140 pounds. Here are the Before and after Pics!
WilliamAndersonLMHC
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Great Job.... It helps me see i can do it too..3
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WOW!!2
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Well done and congratulations - it's inspired me to keep going1
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wow! congratulations, you look fantastic!1
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Thank you all for the compliments and praise! If I can help you, I will.3
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Hi William - congratulations. Did you have any issue with skin?0
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Loose skin can't be helped, except with surgery. I'd rather have the loose skin than still be overweight like I was, or undergo the surgery. I've been thinking about it for years, but still not ready. It's risky and expensive, and for me, not too much of a problem. Otherwise, I'd get the surgery.3
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You look so much taller! Congratulations!1
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Terrific job! Well done, it's great to see these successes, it keeps me motivated and encouraged. X x2
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You look amazing. You are such an inspiration!2
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Well Done!
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Well done, good sir.1
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I'm so impressed! Well done!2
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Wow - what a transformation! Well done!
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WOW!!! Well done.1
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Just to add to the choir--fantastic!1
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Thanks William. From your photo's it looks like you are in great shape with no evidence of loose skin.2
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I have a lot of loose skin, but a saggy abdominal flap can't be seen with a bathing suit on, unless I bend over. As I said, I'd rather have that than the excess weight or the surgery. Still thinking about the surgery, but so far, it's a no-go.3
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Tremendous progress, what were your before and after weights?
Candidly I wouldn't have guessed the loss was as high as 140lbs, you carried your weight well
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Your powers of observation are pretty good, Theo! I started at 320 and have maintained 180 within 10 pounds since 1985. In the "before" swimsuit picture, I was actually about 270, and I use that to compare with the 180 swimsuit picture because people seem to like that comparison picture. There is no way I would have let anyone take a picture of me in a bathing suit at 320. In the "before" swimsuit picture, I had lost about 50 pounds and was quite proud to be skinnier! Here's a "before and after" using a picture of me when I was at my highest.
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Any tips that worked to help you maintain your weight loss for three decades?
That feat is even more impressive than the original loss.
I'm curious if you tracked calories, had a strict diet, or just monitored the scale for cues to take action.3 -
@Theo166 Thanks, I tracked calories for a while, did not have a strict diet but a diet of what I liked, and I get on the scale often. [advertising element removed by MFP Moderators]1
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@Theo166 The key to success is creating the right behavior and cognitive behavior that creates the result of automatic unconscious habit that produces proper weight maintenance. So the best tip I can give in a short answer would be that success is a result of behavioral therapy such as cognitive behavior therapy, self-hypnosis, covert behavior modification, etc.1
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Wow, you've maintained for a very long time. Your arms look so toned, I know you said you have loose skin, but you hide it well. This is very inspiring, thanks for sharing.2
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looks much better, good job2
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great job! very inspiring2
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You look like a different person!2
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Thank you all for the compliments! Even after 30 years, it's very rewarding to get the attaboys.2
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WilliamAndersonLMHC wrote: »@Theo166 The key to success is creating the right behavior and cognitive behavior that creates the result of automatic unconscious habit that produces proper weight maintenance. So the best tip I can give in a short answer would be that success is a result of behavioral therapy such as cognitive behavior therapy, self-hypnosis, covert behavior modification, etc.
@WilliamAndersonLMHC in another thread today about the guys that lost weight by juicing it clicked that it worked as did my health reboot using Low Carb High Fat. I have maintained for the past two years by just weighing my body only and without going hungry.
It hit me the mental intent to recover from failing health must be the common thread that permits very divergent diets work to reboot health. I pictured myself in my coffin and people coming by it saying the fool killed himself with food. CBT was something I studied like 40 years ago in undergrad school.
I learned in my case overeating of calories was not my over riding cause of my obesity.1 -
@wsandy8512 After I lost the weight, I had that look that former overweight people have who did not have much muscle. I had only walked 1/2 hour per day during the last half of the weight loss period. I was a bag of flesh and bones. But I knew that my body would respond like everyone else's to resistant weight exercise. So I traded in the 1/2 per day of walking to 3-2 hour sessions at a gym with a body-building routine and 20 minutes on a bike or treadmill. I still do that.2
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