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If you can set aside one year of your life and dedicate it to your weight loss goal, you will be surprised what you can achieve, AZCentral.com reports.
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Aguilar weighed 280 pounds and was 5 feet 11 inches tall, and his doctor wanted to put him on hypertension medicine.
His energy level was flat and he said of himself: "I was the fat kid (among) my friends.
The motivation: Aguilar wanted to save himself from a family history of health issues and from shopping at a specialty store for large men.
About the same time his doctor told him he should control his high blood pressure with drugs, Aguilar's waist size crept from a 44-inch to a 46-inch, and he no longer could find clothes he wanted in that size.
He promised himself he would dedicate a year's time to losing weight.
The change: Aguilar, who at the time was an internal mail carrier for the state, started by walking to the YMCA in downtown Phoenix to work out during his lunch break.
He soon incorporated strength training four days a week after researching routines on the Internet.
That meant eating three meals a day with two snacks, instead of his usual two very large meals.
He watched portion sizes and ate healthful snacks, such as fruit or a cereal bar, but felt free to eat what he wanted, even fast food.
He lost 90 pounds in the year he allotted himself.
The gain: Aguilar has managed to keep most of the weight off and build muscle over the past three years.
He runs three miles four or five days a week.
He completed training and became a personal trainer at the YMCA where he started working out.
During that time, eating better and exercising became a lifestyle change.
When you really don't feel like going to the gym just put one foot in front of the other.
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, and he is well known as the creator of popular downloadable preparedness programs on financial collapse, emergency food storage, wilderness survival and home defense skills. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams created TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural living video sharing site featuring thousands of user videos on foods, fitness, green living and more. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and martial arts training.
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