A Inspirational Story From The MyFitnessPal Website

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I had to reblog this amazing store for those of you who don't believe it possible. I found this story in my email today and this is the real-deal. Read about this incredible story about Eric and the trainer he found and how he changed his life. If you're wondering why Eric seems to always be smiling it's because he's happy he's alive every day. Being healthy gives you the life you never thought you'd have again.  I don't advocate for any weight loss programs, but this isn't about any special program. This is about how one man decided to lose weight, found a program he could stick to and literally changed his life. I know his buddy had a lot to do with this, but if you don't have the will to stick with the program, even your buddy can't force you.

Watch This MyFitnessPal User Lose 176 Pounds Over 2 Years, 1 Photo Per Day

The moment the lightbulb went on for Eric Naiman was when he was literally staring himself in the face. In the fall of 2014, he was putting in 60- to 70-hour weeks managing a restaurant in Orlando. He was stressed and exhausted, using his limited free time to unwind by eating and drinking socially. With all those factors combined, he found himself weighing close to 400 pounds.
“I remember waking up one morning, feeling like total crap,” he recalls. “I looked at my face in the mirror and said out loud, ‘How did I get here?’” That’s when the revelation hit him: “I can’t do this anymore,” he remembers thinking. “I have to do something else.”
That marked the beginning of Naiman’s journey. He was lucky in that he had had enough — “I was ready to make a change,” he admits. But he also had an accountability buddy in his friend and soon-to-be-roommate Paul Antonelli, who had a degree in exercise physiology and had lost 70 pounds with MyFitnessPal. With Antonelli’s help, Naiman set a weight-loss target of 176 pounds. The early strategy was simple: overhaul his diet, log it all on MyFitnessPal and get his steps in to stay moving. Every day, he would take a photo of himself to track his progress and hold himself accountable.
When he saw the “two pounds per week” strategy was starting to work, he had another revelation. “How cool would it be,” he thought, “to show my family the actual shrinking?” So he began building a time-lapse video of his transformation, day by day, through his entire journey.
“You look at folks’ before-and-after photos,” he explains. “The before always represents, ‘He’s not going to be able to do it.’ The after is always,’I can’t believe he did it.’ The interesting thing to me was the in-between, the journey.”

Naiman has taken the entire trip: In just over two years, he has dropped all 176 pounds, and also added muscle thanks to rigorous training at Orangetheory Fitness. He’s even won a handful of weight-loss competitions held by the trendy health-club chain. But he’s found something even more important: his self-respect.
He hopes that his story will help inspire others who are overlooked to make the changes they need to feel good about themselves.
“Most people, when they look at an obese person, they keep on looking,” he says. “They barely see them and don’t give them much attention — unless you’re on an airplane with them, or if they get kicked off a ride at Universal Studios because they’re too big. 
And that’s the philosophy he wants to pass along: “You have to be willing to take many small steps. If you had told me that two years ago, I wouldn’t have wanted to do it. But if you do that, you get a series of small results.”
And that’s what making a big change is all about.
Congratulations to Eric, I hope he stays with his workout routine, it's not that he wants to be some superstar with a "movie star" body, the object is to stay healthy and happy and fit.

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