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Fall 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

[lead]In 2013 Durham\u00a0was turning 50 and concerned that his best years were in the past. The high school drama teacher wanted to make a drastic lifestyle change, and the TV series \u201cExtreme Weight Loss\u201d gave him the tools, motivation and support to make it happen. A little more than a year later, the former 麻豆原创 Homecoming King has shed 188 pounds along with a ton of regret.[\/lead]<\/p>\n

\u201cDiets are science to me.<\/strong> You put in less and move more, and your body is going to drop weight. That is not where transformation happens. When I think of the past year, I never think of the weight loss as the transformation. The real change was in my head \u2014 putting myself first and truly loving myself. It was revolutionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo love yourself, you keep your promises to yourself.<\/strong> The word \u2018no\u2019 became part of a new arsenal that I had not used before. Most people who are morbidly obese, there is something triggering it. Food becomes something that it shouldn\u2019t be. You run to it when things get difficult. What I needed to do, was to get rid of the \u2018difficult.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in my life, I did. Instead of saying, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ll do it tomorrow,\u2019 I did it.<\/strong> And I learned that I was a bit of a warrior through the process. I found out that I\u2019m as strong as an ox, and that I could do things like run a 5K even though I\u2019d never walked a mile. When you do something like that, then you know you can do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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