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| Success Story |
Losing ItBy Ronnie Killen
The following week, I signed up at another gym for two more sessions per week. In addition to working out, I loaded an application on my iPhone called “Lose It” and put all of my stats, like height, weight and age, into the program. The program asked for weight loss goals, with my most aggressive being to lose 100 pounds over the period of a year.  To lose that amount it said you may eat 2,686 calories per day. I am a chef and I thought that 2,600 calories is a lot for me to consume each day. I know that one pound is roughly equivalent to 3,100 calories, so in order to lose one pound a day I would have to burn an extra 500 calories per day. After that, I could only eat what I burned over the 500 calories.In other words, if I burned 2,200 calories in one day at the gym, I could consume 1,700 calories. This gave me a deficit of 3,100 calories a day. I lost 32 pounds in September alone. Soon after, my son was involved in an accident in which he was kicked in the abdomen by a horse that resulted in a dissected pancreas. He was unable to eat by mouth for more than four months. Because I was already making a lifestyle change, if my wife and daughter decided to go out to eat, I stayed home with my son. He was OK with me drinking protein shakes and protein bars–“dirt and worms” as he called them. That helped me greatly. I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason. I lost my first 100 pounds in about three months by using the formula of 500 calories plus what I burned, which was all I would allow myself to consume. I didn’t starve myself, just ate the correct food that I enjoyed. One of my biggest problems was I never ate breakfast. Being a chef is a demanding occupation and it is hard to eat when you are serving people. For the first three years of Killen’s Steakhouse being open, I was too busy to worry about breakfast. I was the most overweight starved person around. I would usually eat a huge lunch around 2:30 p.m. and by then, I was already starving. I would then eat a late dinner (usually fast food), then go straight to bed. I was eating on the average of every eight to 10 hours a day. This makes the body go into starvation mode and store all of the calories you intake. I had to learn to look at food completely different and not live to eat, but eat to live! It got harder after the first 100 pounds. I started training myself after three months, but I am now training with Chuck Stephens at One2One Training Center, and he is the real deal. My body has transformed over the last few months more than I could ever imagine. I am down 217 pounds, but I still want to lose another 30 and possibly begin competing in bodybuilding competitions. I aspire to compete in the Mr. Texas contest next year. As hard as it was losing this much weight, I now know anything is possible. If I can do it, even though I am around food all day, anybody can do it. You just have to want it. Share your workout success and motivate others! Send your 500-600 word story to H&FSM with a photo of you before and after your success. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
