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.

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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

Sunday, January 28, 2007

BIG DAY! I sponsored three guys (two from Willow Creek and Denis my Lead Trainer) for swim training today.

When I made up my mind to seek 10 - 20 people needing to lose at least 40 pounds to run a triathlon with me in July of '07 (6 months from now), my initial concern was "the swim"

From all I had read... the primary intimidation of a triathlon for most folks is the swimming portion. The run only concerned people with bad knees or disabilities and the cycling only concerned people with no bike (or disabilities).

So... I treated my three friends today to "state of the art" swim training. The same training I took (at the recommendation of Bill Bachrach... my "Ironman" friend). The idea of this special training is to "swim like a fish" as effortlessly as possible. It works! After nearly 25 years of not swimming, I was able to swim a kilometer after only one day's training.

My three friends today (two of whom will run the tri with us in July), were amazed at the improvement in their swimming today.

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