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I did this and lost 40 pounds, weirdly while exercising less.
When I lost my 40 pounds a few years ago, I did it simply by restricting those things, which admittedly suggests I have a bias based on my personal experience.
I dream of a day when our patients can shed their excess pounds and cure themselves of insulin resistance, because as medical professionals, we've shed our excess mental baggage and cured ourselves of new idea resistance sufficiently to go back to our original ideals: open minds, the courage to throw out yesterday's ideas when they don't appear to be working, and the understanding that scientific truth isn't final, but constantly evolving.
There's a firefighter that's stuck, actually, in traffic, and so the firefighters themselves are running a mile and a half to the site itself with upwards of 70 pounds of gear on their back.
For example, at the bottom of the ocean, under thousands of pounds of hydrostatic pressure, a completely soft animal can move and interact with a much stiffer object than him.
So here he is, this shepherd, experienced in the use of a devastating weapon, up against this lumbering giant weighed down by a hundred pounds of armor and these incredibly heavy weapons that are useful only in short-range combat.
I also wanted somebody who would weigh 20 pounds more than me at all times, regardless of what I weighed.
And I weighed 220 pounds.
And then I started getting honest with myself about what had become my lifelong struggle with obesity, and I noticed this pattern, that I was gaining about two or three pounds a year, and then about every 10 years, I'd drop 20 or 30 pounds.
And so, on New Year's Eve of 2007, I went to the zoo, and I stood in front of the elephants, and I said, "This city is going on a diet, and we're going to lose a million pounds."
People were signing up, and so the pounds started to add up, and the conversation that I thought was so important to have was starting to take place.
When we reached a million pounds, in January of 2012, I flew to New York with some our participants who had lost over 100 pounds, whose lives had been changed, and we appeared on the Rachael Ray show, and then that afternoon, I did a round of media in New York pushing the same messages that you're accustomed to hearing about obesity and the dangers of it.
Instead of just coming out of the prison with 46 pounds in their pocket, half of them not knowing where they're spending their first night out of jail, actually, someone meets them in prison, learns about their issues, meets them at the gate, takes them through to somewhere to stay, connects them to benefits, connects them to employment, drug rehabilitation, mental health, whatever's needed.
Investors have put in 3.1 million pounds.
So David Cameron's put 20 million pounds into a social outcomes fund to support this idea.
Now I eat whenever I'm hungry, and I've lost 10 pounds.
This is called your set point, but that's a misleading term, because it's actually a range of about 10 or 15 pounds.
And this is while holding 50 pounds of draw weight on each shot.
Today, rather than the same size as the average elite high jumper, the average elite shot-putter is two and a half inches taller and 130 pounds heavier.
MT: He weighs 300 pounds.
The one brought to Taft's table weighed 18 pounds.
I'm going to be 25 in March, and I've never weighed over about 64 pounds in my entire life.
Those men would eventually be convicted of placing a van filled with 1,500 pounds of explosives into the sub-level parking lot of the World Trade Center's North Tower, causing an explosion that killed six people and injured over 1,000 others.
I tried it and gained 10 pounds in the wrong places.
These things weigh, like, seven pounds each.
If you want an annual income of 1,000 pounds, you should have a capital value of 20,000 pounds so that five percent of 20,000 is 1,000.
A coconut tree that is 90 feet tall, and has coconuts that weigh two pounds that can drop off at any time.
Across the world, people are struggling to manage their weight, and there is a variety of strategies that we have to help us keep the pounds off.
The biggest anteater in the world lives in the rain forest, tips the scale at 90 pounds.
A specimen from here in Brazil tipped the scale at 201 pounds.
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