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 07, 2007

I found a great personal trainer working at the South Barrington Club. His name is Humberto Medina, he's a very talented experienced highly educated and motivating person. He is pushing me to my limits which is all I can ask for.

He's come up with an idea to do mini triathlons once per week. A perfect plan for winter training... there's snow on the ground and I'm still going to be doing triathlons indoors.

The way it will work is this... he envisions doing the triathlons in reverse order:

      1. run on the treadmill for 20 minutes
      2. ride on the stationary bike for 20 minutes
      3. swim for 20 minutes
    we'll measure my distances in each event. This is going to be great, hopefully my distances will increase over time. You know like how long I can run in 20 minutes etc.
great plan
    I can't wait to get going


posted by Mark Little | 7:39 PM

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