From: The Historian on
I stumbled on this while searching the newsgroups for information on
bikes for fat people.

http://speedleopard.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-story-with-before-pictures.html

The "Preston" mention is Preston Crawford, a regular on the bike
groups. He lost 170 pounds. His wife's accomplishments are even more
inspiring, since she was in denial even after her husband lost a lot of
weight.

From: Chris Braun on
On 22 Nov 2006 05:44:18 -0800, "The Historian" <Spamscone(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:

>http://speedleopard.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-story-with-before-pictures.html

Wow! This is worth reading, guys!

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004
From: The Historian on

Chris Braun wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2006 05:44:18 -0800, "The Historian" <Spamscone(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >http://speedleopard.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-story-with-before-pictures.html
>
> Wow! This is worth reading, guys!
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

Are you implying I sometinmes post items not worth reading? :-)

Neil
385/281/220

From: Beverly on

The Historian wrote:
> I stumbled on this while searching the newsgroups for information on
> bikes for fat people.
>
> http://speedleopard.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-story-with-before-pictures.html
>
> The "Preston" mention is Preston Crawford, a regular on the bike
> groups. He lost 170 pounds. His wife's accomplishments are even more
> inspiring, since she was in denial even after her husband lost a lot of
> weight.

I've seen Preston posting in the biking newsgroups for several years
and have always been impressed by he and his wife's stories. It just
shows that starting an exercise program can turn into a passion for it
:)

I can remember a few years back when I thought a 10 mile bike ride was
a loooooong distance<g>

Beverly

From: dkw12002 on

The Historian wrote:
> I stumbled on this while searching the newsgroups for information on
> bikes for fat people.
>
> http://speedleopard.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-story-with-before-pictures.html
>
> The "Preston" mention is Preston Crawford, a regular on the bike
> groups. He lost 170 pounds. His wife's accomplishments are even more
> inspiring, since she was in denial even after her husband lost a lot of
> weight.

It reminds me of the old joke: I lost 150 pounds of unwanted weight.
What did you do, go on a strict diet. No, I divorced my wife.

The website does show the importance of having both people thinking
along the same lines. It becomes very difficult when people around you
are telling you it is OK to eat something not on your diet or worse yet
when they prepare food that is not on your diet and expect you to eat
it or their feelings are hurt. dkw