Weight Loss Success Stories on Reddit

Reddit.com is a great source of genuine weight loss success stories. The photos shown here were submitted by jxmac just seven hours ago and she has already received over 2,000 comments. She has lost 65 pounds. Check out her weight loss story and other people's comments here.

Western Food is Making the World Diabetic

Listen to this interesting 13 minute NPR audio on Diet and Diabetes, where one doctor discusses the differences he noticed between Afghan patients and the bodies of North American patients. He says;

"Typical Afghan civilians and soldiers would have been 140 pounds or so as adults. And when we operated on them, what we were aware of was the absence of any fat or any adipose tissue underneath the skin," Patterson says. "Of course, when we operated on Canadians or Americans or Europeans, what was normal was to have most of the organs encased in fat. It had a visceral potency to it when you could see it directly there."

Weight Loss Before After

"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can." ~ Lowell Thomas

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." ~ Robert Collier
"Impatience never commands success." ~ Edwin Chapin
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." ~ Shakespeare
"Just Do It!" ~ Nike
"Do it or not. There is no 'try'." ~ Yoda
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." ~ Jim Ryun
"Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~ Emerson
"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration." ~ Evan Esar
"Nothing happens until I make it happen." ~ Scott Wilson
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." ~ Walt Disney
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." ~ Dale Carnegie
"Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth." ~ Frank Tyger
"A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles." ~ Gunderson
"One way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life." ~ Cyril Connolly
"More die in the United States of too much food than too little." ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Keep up the hard work. Who knows the next before and after picture might be yours?
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