George Foreman Lost 85 Pounds
George Foreman was a two-time heavyweight boxing champion of
the world. At age 45, he became the oldest man in the world to win the title.
In his book, God in My Corner, he writes:
When I started my comeback, I had to get rid of some excess
George. I was extremely overweight. In the nearly ten years I had been out of
boxing, I had ballooned from 220 to 315 pounds. And it wasn’t muscle that I
gained!
To get back into an exercise regimen, I started with the
basics—running every day. I was so out of shape that I couldn’t go far. At
first, I couldn’t even make it around my block, which was about a mile. I had
to stop a few times to catch my breath, huffing and puffing.
Just imagine a big, fat guy, gasping for air, barely able to
jog around the block, who claims that he will be the heavyweight champion of
the world again! I looked ridiculous to everyone who saw me. I’m sure they
laughed as they peeked through their curtains early in the morning while I
slowly shuffled past their houses. Only two people on this entire planet
believed I could recapture the title—my wife and me.
But I had to get my weight down. I would walk and run, walk
and run. Finally, I was able to run the whole time without walking. Then I
began running longer distances, and with the combination of a proper diet and
regular exercise, the fat continued to melt away. I kept running for the next
eight months, until I finally got down to my fighting weight—229 pounds. The
flab was fun to put on, but hard to take off. However, I wouldn’t have won the
championship title if I first hadn’t gotten rid of that extra weight.
Family Quotes
“The family is the
corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude,
the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family
collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a
massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to
strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay
together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and
private concern — will never be enough.”-Lyndon Baines Johnson
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