Hey Rochard - let's have some (healthy) fun!

Please do.

Very nice.

I tend to weigh myself every other day. It's great motivation and helps keep me on track. I was able to use the last notch in my belt today, albeit a bit tight. I weighed in at 236.7. The last time I comfortably used the last notch I weighed 230, so I'm right on track.

Taking a passport visa photo right now and won't be as horrified with the pic as I would have been 1-2 months ago.

Sorry but update pics without your bare feet showing could be construed as someone else pretending to be you losing weight.

Please post all future update pics with your bare feet to avoid all suspicion of cheating :D

Weighed in at 235.8, down 0.9lbs. for the week.

Steady as she goes...

Outstanding.

You can actually see the long shadow that casts Rochard's baguette . . .

Down 1.1lbs to 234.7

Slowly but surely . . .

Great news!

Keep it up, RandyRandy . . .

219 this morning....

That's awesome!!! Broke into the teens!

I didn't have a great beginning of the week, but I turned it around the last few days. Wound up EXACTLY where I was last week, 234.7



I need a solid push to get over that 230 hump.

We appreciate the socks, Rochard . . .

I surely haven't forgotten this; I've just been super busy. I work for YNOT full time, plus my wife's bricks & mortar business, and also a new mainstream company. Sometimes I am working eighteen hour days and I'm exhausted. My wife doesn't help much because she likes the occasional fast food.

This morning I am back up to 221.

I am also going to the YNOT Cam Awards in Hollywood this week so less exercise and more crappy food. Great.

Hey Rochard!

I haven't forgotten this either. Crazy couple of weeks. I ended my Chef's job in New York and I'm now in Bangkok for about a year to open a new brand of NY style pizzerias.

I didn't bring a scale, but my clothes are fitting ok so I'm guessing I'm about 233 - 234. There's a pay scale outside the Family Mart downstairs from my condo, maybe I'll give it a try - of course it's in kilos.

I'll probably buy a scale soon - my wife keeps sending me threatening messages to weigh myself.

I'll keep you updated . . .

You guys are porking up on Halloween candy and holiday food so you're not posting those sexy scale pics anymore!!

Pizza? Yum.

I just got back from road trip but I seem to be holding at 221. My shorts no longer fit me, and I had to buy a new belt this weekend.

Scale pic or BAN!

No candy for me. Halloween isn't a big deal in Bangkok. Plenty of good Thai food however...

Richard in my experience eating starch holds water.. not even going to try and prove it. I eat 1/2 a pizza next day I have 3lbs... gotta be water. dump starch you will start dropping more weigh - I go between 184-188 depending.. thinking I'll go to 175'ish.

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thanks it seems kinda weird but this is what I'm experiencing … chat later... in production

It’s been a while!

Here's the recap: I left a chef’s job that proved too physical. 12 hours on my feet, was just too much. But it was a great job. Really pissed me off that I couldn’t handle it.

Took a cushy consulting gig in Bangkok in Oct 2018 (that’s when I last logged in) and it was good, lost a few pounds, down to 235 I think.

The consulting gig ended and I took a pizza gig on Hawaii that I knew was going to be pretty physical – but I wanted to give it a shot. Got into better shape and down to 225.

Got a call to open a shop in Michigan and that was going to be super physical, more than the chef’s job I couldn’t handle before. But I went for it.

Trained 45 days in 2 NYC shops that almost killed me and the opening 2 months in Michigan was the most physically demanding job I’ve ever had. But I pushed through it and on Christmas I was 195!

Just before Christmas I got a crazy call: a documentary series that I’m in was being world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. They wanted to fly me out for the screening and do promos and Q&A at the theatre. If I was the fat fuck I was before, NO WAY would I want to go to Sundance. I would have hid. But I did go. Had a great time with my wife – she loved the “red carpet” photos – and I didn’t mind either! Even got my photo on People/Entertainment Weekly! And I had a great time doing the promos and Q&A.

All of that would have never happened if I was still so fat. What a waste. Some people have confidence no matter what they look like. Not me. I like to say I have no confidence at 300lbs and full confidence at 200lbs

Today I weighed 186 and the world is my oyster...

Here's a couple of pics, 5 years apart:

Wow, that's awesome Randy, very impressive! Sounds like you have the blueprint to living healthy down and can keep the weight off even with your profession. Looks like you beat Rochard, I don't see him getting below 190 anytime soon.

Good to see you around and sorry for your wife's eye condition, RandyRandy ! !

Since we bumped this..... By January 2019 I ended up at 235 and was stuck there.

I live in an HOA and they had closed down the entire pool / gym complex during a year long expansion. (We went from two pools to four pools, one of them indoors, and the gym is now five times bigger.) I promised myself when the new gym opened I would go every day until I was under 200 lbs. Well, the gym opened and... I went on the very first day and discovered I could watch Netflix. I started going two or three times a day. Now I have a new ten inch Amazon Fire Tablet and.... I am still going to the gym two or three times a day, plus riding my bike when I can, and more recently walking our new puppy.

I got under 200 lbs right before the new year, and and I am down to 195 and holding.

I couldn't be happier.