His goal? To be even healthier at 47 than he was at 46.
David Young, a 46-year-old superintendent at Abilene Independent School District in Abilene, Texas, used to meet up with his district’s human resources officer for some bacon cheeseburgers on the regular.When he was sitting in the cardiac waiting room at the hospital with his friend’s wife, he knew he had to make a change, too. “All I could do was picture someone with my wife having that conversation, that’s what did it for me,” he said.
At 320 pounds, Young had battled with his weight for years, but his friend’s health scare made him realize he needed to take it more seriously. Young and other administrators decided they needed to make changes for themselves and for the human resources officer to come back to a healthy environment. “Quite honestly I thought to myself, ‘I just gotta make it through a couple months sucking it up, and then I can go back to what I was doing.’ I’ve seen that in myself before,” he said. “As I got into it this time, I could really tell I wasn’tYoung said that in the past, food had been entertainment or stress relief for him, but this time, he wanted the changes to stick. He even met with his doctor and told him “you need to kick me in my shins about my weight.
With the help of his doctor, he set a goal of 2,000 calories a day, and day-by-day, he works hard to hit that. And this time, Young’s been successful. In 10 months, he’s lost 104 pounds, and now weighs in at 216. Here’s how he did it.“I didn’t do anything but change what I ate and how much I ate for first 30 to 35 pounds,” Young said.from those. Previously, Young ate many of his meals out, so he committed to his wife that he would come home and cook a healthy dinner. That’s been helpful getting his weight down, and it’s also given them more quality time together.
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