400 down, less than 100 to go

[thescoutranch]

Losing 400 lbs is an amazing accomplishment. It doesn’t matter how long it took you, you lost it! Fantastic job and keep it up, we want you around for years to come.

Hopefully this will serve as an inspiration to others who have been packing around a couple (10/20/40,etc) pounds for the last couple decades and say they can’t lose it. Me included, LOL

Congratulations

 

[pronstar]

I can’t even comprehend the discipline it took to drop that much weight.

Kudos to you, Ben

Great way to help ensure you’ll be with us for a long, long time…because we’re still waiting for you to write that book of your life experiences


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[SURVIVOR619]

Agree with @pronstar …. impressive discipline.

Great job sir!! It can be reasoned that over the span of 20 years, your loss resulted in a net gain of added years to your life.

Thanks for sharing - we celebrate with you. Cheers!

 

[Daley_G]

As a few others have just stated, your amazing accomplishments are inspirational and while I don't know you (yet), I'm glad you're doing this in order to both prolong your life but improve the quality of it.

Congratulations indeed, and all the support to keep going!

 

[Iuprof]

Wow. Just. Wow! Congratulations and it makes me embarrassed I. Ant lose 20! But, motivating too!

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[vmax]

Fabulous
I bet all of your metabolic health markers are much improved

 

[benenglish]

I bet all of your metabolic health markers are much improved

I'm not sure which ones are of interest. Lord knows they run a lot of tests producing lots of numbers about twice a year.

For example, my total cholesterol is at 119. I thought that was pretty good.

 

[seeker_two]

 

[jonevill]

Congratulations Ben. Great job. And I thought I was doing good losing 40 lbs.

 

[Charlie]

Good job, sir!

 

[Brains]

Nothing short of an incredible accomplishment. That post pic must have been a while back, you still had hair

 

[DoubleDuty]

Doc weighed me yesterday, like she does every 3 months.

I have officially lost more than 400 pounds.

I was oddly underwhelmed at the news. I thought I'd feel like celebrating but I don't. Instead, I'm mostly looking forward to the home stretch.

Just wanted to share.

Dude way to go. Your body and organs appreciate it

 

[smittyb]

Congrats, sir.
119 Cholesterol!! I’d have to loose a few hundred myself to get there!

 

[jrbfishn]

Congrats Ben. An amazing accomplishment. But you never cease to amaze. Keep it up.
And tell Sister hi for me.

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[candcallen]

Outstanding Ben.

While were posting pics this was me at about 330 to 350

And now about 200 to 205

It's worth the struggle. It took 20 years to go from 200 to 350 plus and back down again.

Keep it up. I'm off almost all my meds.

 

[deemus]

Congrats Ben. Proud of you for sticking with it. It’s hard to do.

 

[candcallen]

Outstanding Ben.

While were posting pics this was me at about 330 to 350

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And now about 200 to 205

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It's worth the struggle. It took 20 years to go from 200 to 350 plus and back down again.

Keep it up. I'm off almost all my meds.

That Disneyland pic was about 2005. I was carrying a Glock 17 all day. Fat hids guns good. Lol

 

[benenglish]

Fat hids guns good.

I've concluded the opposite. My blubber spilling over the gun may hide it but the pistol also painfully digs into my flesh.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Outstanding pappa prayers up

 

[thescoutranch]

If it is not too personal, what did you do to lose the weight over the 20 years? Was it watching what you eat? Was it moderate exercise? A combination of both? Did you give up any certain types of food, specifically?
Watching what you ate, or how much you ate? I would love to read more detail if you are willing to share it.

Epp