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Real Life Success Stories
“When I was a kid, my mom used to say I was ‘husky.’ The other kids had different names for it. It’s been like that my whole life. It never got any better for me really, but people aren’t as mean when they grow up so it was easier for me to ignore.
“Then I ended up having kids of my own and it seemed like it all started over. When my wife got pregnant for the second time, our little girl who was almost 3 kept saying ‘Daddy’s pregnant too.’ The more I told her that I wasn’t, the more she said it. She thought it was a game. She even did it in public which was REALLY annoying. My wife saw it was getting to me and said ‘Look, she’s not the problem. Your weight’s the problem. If it’s bothering you that much, do something about it.’ I said ‘Alright, I will’ without really thinking about it. Then I felt like I had to do something about it because I shot off my big mouth. I was stuck.
“As it turns out, it was the best kind of stuck I could be. A buddy at work was always working out on lunch at the gym in the next building, so I asked if I could come along. With 2 kids, it was the only time I had. That was another happy accident because I now had someone else pushing me to go AND getting on my case about all the junk I was eating at work.
“I hated the gym at first, I admit it. And at second. It wasn’t until weeks later when I went down a notch in my belt that I actually stopped hating it. Suddenly I was excited. And the roast turkey I ate instead of my meatball sub most days tasted a whole lot better.
“So I’ve been at it about 6 months now. I’m down about 15 pounds. I have a LONG way to go. I’m not even half the way there yet. But I think it’s a success story just the same because this is the furthest I’ve ever gotten. Looking back, I never really tried all that hard. In a way, this is the first time doing it for REAL.”
–Nick L., Mt. Oliver, PA
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