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After a Conversation With His Doctor, This Texas Man Started Running\u2014and Dropped 91 Pounds

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After a Conversation With His Doctor, This Texas Man Started Running\u2014and Dropped 91 Pounds
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“We are all in this together, and remember, you’re lapping everyone on the couch.” 💪

To this day, I’m grateful he had that conversation with me, and I knew I had to do something. I had a hard time fitting exercise into my schedule—I had a desk job during the day, and my wife and I had two children at the time .

On top of that, I had a poor diet—lots ofA month or so after that visit, I mentioned to a coworker that my doctor said I needed to lose weight.. I think I said yes because it just seemed like a good way to just start doing something. I figured I didn’t have anything to lose. On that run, I had no idea what I was doing. I dressed in an old cotton t-shirt, basketball shorts, and some four-year-old shoes that had little cushioning. My coworker showed me a couple of landmarks and their distances to use as a guide. I started off okay, but at the quarter-mile mark, I was miserable. My calves were on fire, and I was out of breath. I thought there was no way I could this. I had never felt this out of shape.I walked to the half-mile mark and decided to start running again. I made it about another quarter mile then walked the rest of the way back. I waited for my coworker to return. He asked how it went, and I told him it was terrible. He laughed and told me that I had lapped someone on the couch. That’s exactly what I needed to hear—and the next day, I went running again.A couple of weeks later, I was running Monday through Friday, even in the Texas heat.half marathonThere were many ups and downs to get to that point. I remember getting pretty upset and thinking why I had to work so hard to lose weight. The key was to give it time. As I went farther, the weight came off; I lost about 25 to 30 pounds. But then I started cleaning my diet up, and that was a game-changer. I started getting my portion sizes under control and eating more

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