I lost 140 pounds. Here are the Before and after Pics!

WilliamAndersonLMHC
WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
edited November 18 in Success Stories
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  • fmps5
    fmps5 Posts: 45 Member
    Great Job.... It helps me see i can do it too..
  • becky10rp
    becky10rp Posts: 573 Member
    WOW!!
  • summerblues21
    summerblues21 Posts: 5 Member
    Well done and congratulations - it's inspired me to keep going
  • cozytimes
    cozytimes Posts: 111 Member
    wow! congratulations, you look fantastic!
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    edited April 2017
    Thank you all for the compliments and praise! If I can help you, I will.
  • sherlock343
    sherlock343 Posts: 2 Member
    Hi William - congratulations. Did you have any issue with skin?
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    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.
  • Steff46
    Steff46 Posts: 516 Member
    You look so much taller! Congratulations!
  • SleepingSwan
    SleepingSwan Posts: 50 Member
    Terrific job! Well done, it's great to see these successes, it keeps me motivated and encouraged. X x
  • heidi4fox50
    heidi4fox50 Posts: 18 Member
    You look amazing. You are such an inspiration!
  • Austex_Egger
    Austex_Egger Posts: 44 Member
    Well Done!
  • SiegfriedXXL
    SiegfriedXXL Posts: 219 Member
    Well done, good sir.
  • cassglass
    cassglass Posts: 85 Member
    I'm so impressed! Well done!
  • gianna42
    gianna42 Posts: 5,991 Member
    Wow - what a transformation! Well done!
  • sbrookes9
    sbrookes9 Posts: 445 Member
    WOW!!! Well done.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Just to add to the choir--fantastic!
  • sherlock343
    sherlock343 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks William. From your photo's it looks like you are in great shape with no evidence of loose skin.
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    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.
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    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 :wink:
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    edited April 2017
    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.
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    edited May 2017
    @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]
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    edited May 2017
    @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.
  • wsandy8512
    wsandy8512 Posts: 1,897 Member
    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.
  • princess0lexi
    princess0lexi Posts: 3,938 Member
    looks much better, good job
  • monaalford34
    monaalford34 Posts: 6 Member
    great job! very inspiring
  • long_for_me
    long_for_me Posts: 184 Member
    You look like a different person!
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    Thank you all for the compliments! Even after 30 years, it's very rewarding to get the attaboys.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    edited May 2017
    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.
  • WilliamAndersonLMHC
    WilliamAndersonLMHC Posts: 117 Member
    @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.
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