The Fitness Race - How I lost 140 Pounds Eating At McDonald's: May 2006

The Fitness Race - How I lost 140 Pounds Eating At McDonald's

...And you can too! In the fall of 2004, I had had enough. I knew I had been morbidly obese for years, but the grim reality of a short lived future slapped me in the face. After years of hearing what the doctors told me about my weight, I actually listened to what he said. He told me I wouldn't live much longer, and when I did go, it would be a "drop dead" event. The following is a short description of my story, and the journey I followed to go from where I was to where I wanted to be.

About Me

Name: Mark Little

Location: Schaumburg, Illinois (888)467-8593, United States

After struggling with his weight for more than twenty five years, in Nov 2004 Mark McKenna Little made up his mind that being unhealthy was no longer acceptable. Through sensible eating and increased physical activity (absolutely NO drugs or surgery) he lost 140 pounds and now does four triathlons per year. Early in 2007 he challenged a group at his church that if they were serious about losing more than forty pounds each... he would mentor them to make a total body transformation. SO, THE 2007 FITNESS RACE WAS BORN... Mark Little owns an unrelated business, which he operates, but is mentoring 15 individuals to make similar health and fitness transformations in their lives by September 30, 2007. Many of those in this group have well over 40 pounds of excess weight, but have set a goal to get light enough to do the 2007 Accenture Chicago Triathlon with Mark on August 26, 2007. FOLLOW THEIR STORIES BELOW

Thursday, May 25, 2006

I went to the Annual McDonald's shareholders meeting this morning. I was so fed up with people who got up during the Q&A, that I got up and told them how thankful I was for McDonald's role in my weightloss and asked what they had planned for even more healthy choices on their menu. You can go to this website to see the meeting: http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/invest/multimedia/2006AMWebcast.html. I met a lot of people that were important in the building up of McDonald's over the years. I also learned that McDonald's is the country's largest purchaser of apples.....so if the old addage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" is true....wouldn't that mean that McDonald's is America's greatest health promoter?!?!
I am surprised they aren't the nation's largest supplier of vanilla yogurt. I think I ate a few tons of that stuff over the last year and a half. I still love it.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

I just read the book Fast Food Nation. What a hatchet job on McDonald's. This book has an agenda and the author (Robert Redford's son-in-law) doesn't seem at all troubled by the facts. The whole premise of the movie is that McDonald's is a place where unhealthy people go to eat unhealthy food. He never interviewed me! What am I to believe this guy's convoluted conspiricy theory or my simple story of making sensisible choices eating what my registered dietician describes as "exceptionally nutritous" food at McDonald's the result being a 134 pound weight loss and maintaining that loss for more than a year while watching my cholesterol do a dive bomb down to what my cardiologist describes as "healthy low levels" while eating an average of more than 60 times per month at McDonald's???????