An ongoing series examining the challenges and triumphs that accompany answering “You lost weight. Now what?”
Wayne went shopping with his family to find 'slimming clothes," at The Biggest Loser's request. Wayne didn't think much of it when we chatted; to those reading, that might sound like a dig from the Biggest Loser's position. Hasn't he lost enough to not be considered "slim" enough?
But this is an element of life,...
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Wayne Vandenlangenberg will step on the scale on a special live broadcast of The Biggest Loser Couples on Tuesday. Weighing himself is common practice since he woke from a coma and resolved himself to weigh something, to be something, other than 647 pounds.
From lifting a tomato juice can in his ...
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The comments, veiled criticisms or outright attacks on someone’s weight aren’t exactly news to someone who’s overweight or obese. But one thing “weight loss success story” tales don’t mention are those comments aren’t banished with the weight loss.
You could say the food fights with loved ones simply advance onto a new, slimmer battlefields....
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Jeff Neubauer’s first weight loss experience involved him installing a treadmill in his kitchen, losing 50 pounds and finished his first marathon in 5:25 time – at 12.5 minutes per mile for 26 miles, that’s not bad for a rookie that never ran. It was a victory to be sure, but not one that...
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Amid the clamor of her traditional step class, Evelyn Wells looked around. She was stepping with all the same people for 10 years, who were no thinner. And then she looked inward. She ran through the litany of all the “right things” she had been done while struggling with her weight. All the things...
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It took a total of 12 years, 300 pounds and 33 years of life for Mark McCarley of New Orleans to get asked on a date for the first time.
And he laughed. It wasn’t until Mark's suitor made a second request that he realized it was serious.
Towering over a small table in a New...
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We don’t have time for cynicism here at Second Helping. Want proof that people can be extraordinary? Here you go. This article is the first in an ongoing series highlighting how people adjusted to their weight loss successes and answered “Now what?” for themselves.
Although Jackie Ramerez’s before and after photos triumphantly declare "I did...
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