Guy Drops 100lbs After Seeing Himself on Google
Street View is useful for more than just spying on your neighbors and their picture-perfect geraniums.
We're used to seeing pictures and gifs of people who desperately wanted to be captured by the Google Street View cameras. Whether they wore funny hats, chased after the cars, or hung out in the same spot day after day, there are plenty of people eager to be on Street View.
However, Street View also contains many, many, many photos of people who just happened to be standing nearby when the car drove past. Not surprisingly, for one reason or another, not all of them are happy to appear on the Google mapping service.
One such man horrified by his picture appearing on Street View was 56-year-old Bob Mewse. Bob saw his picture and was immediately embarrassed. No, Street View hadn't caught him falling asleep on the side of the road, or peeing against a wall, or with a woman who wasn't his wife. Mr. Mewse was horrified because he realised he'd gained a lot of weight.
"I was horrified when I saw that photo. I was massive. My belly was sticking out and I looked huge," the Telegraph cites Mewse as saying.
"I'd been thinking about losing weight for some time but after seeing that picture, I knew that I actually had to do something about it. I was in such bad condition that I was unable to walk and talk at the same time."
The Telegraph reports that Bob joined the local gym in his hometown of Longwell Green, Bristol, and started to exercise with a personal trainer. The trainer gave him nutritional advice and helped him sort with an exercise regime. A year later, the formerly 297lb Bob has lost nearly 100 lb, a third of his body weight.
"If I can do this, anybody can – I'm just an ordinary bloke. I feel much healthier now," he told the Telegraph.
Source: Telegraph
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Before and After pictures please. Glad he lost that weight. 190lbs is a good weight depending on your height.
Sometimes shock factor can be a good motivator.
"If I can do it, anybody can" Funny how they all say that after they lost the weight. Before they lost the weight i'm sure they were telling people who said that to go F--k themselves. People Gain weight because they eat, and not move much, and to lose it you have to maintain a low level of calorie input per day, BELOW 2500. Ice cream, Pop, Cakes, Chocolate bars.. Plus Supper, and Breakfast, and Lunch, and the Second servings of Supper. All this adds up quick, 1 serving of an average supper/dinner meal is around 800-1000 calories. A bowl of ice cream is around 800 calories, a chocolate bar is around 300-500, pop is 800. It adds up very quickly.
So you want to lose weight, Eat less. And if you don't want to eat less, Exercise a LOT. And if you don't want to exercise, than live with your lack of self control. If you enjoy life being big, All the power to you, life is meant to be enjoyed.
As for this fella, 100 pounds is a Shit ton of weight. But unless he did it right, he may gain it all back, I hope he doesn't.
This is amazing.
I just need to wait for the goglar street view car to pass by to get motivated as well.
The fact that he was that naive and oblivious is saddening. I don't see how this is news on the other hand, so I shouldn't comment.
I've lost 15 lbs since moving and starting University. Can I get a news article?
More proof fat people dont know just how horrible they look.
"If I can do it, anybody can" Funny how they all say that after they lost the weight. Before they lost the weight i'm sure they were telling people who said that to go F--k themselves. People Gain weight because they eat, and not move much, and to lose it you have to maintain a low level of calorie input per day, BELOW 2500. Ice cream, Pop, Cakes, Chocolate bars.. Plus Supper, and Breakfast, and Lunch, and the Second servings of Supper. All this adds up quick, 1 serving of an average supper/dinner meal is around 800-1000 calories. A bowl of ice cream is around 800 calories, a chocolate bar is around 300-500, pop is 800. It adds up very quickly.So you want to lose weight, Eat less. And if you don't want to eat less, Exercise a LOT. And if you don't want to exercise, than live with your lack of self control. If you enjoy life being big, All the power to you, life is meant to be enjoyed. As for this fella, 100 pounds is a Shit ton of weight. But unless he did it right, he may gain it all back, I hope he doesn't.
You really do not know much at all about dieting or exercising......if you do all that work and do not eat well/enough you can actually gain weight (and not in a good way)
I guess you have an axe to grind against fat people but your post generally offended me and I am in great shape (although not as good as freshman year of college
I did it with the Google Maps Diet!
You really do not know much at all about dieting or exercising......if you do all that work and do not eat well/enough you can actually gain weight (and not in a good way)I guess you have an axe to grind against fat people but your post generally offended me and I am in great shape (although not as good as freshman year of college )
You really do not know much at all about dieting or exercising......if you do all that work and do not eat well/enough you can actually gain weight (and not in a good way)I guess you have an axe to grind against fat people but your post generally offended me and I am in great shape (although not as good as freshman year of college )
Calories burned - Calories eaten = weight loss
It's really freaking simple. You can live of chocolate bars and lose weight (although, obviously unhealthy for other reasons).
"If I can do it, anybody can" Funny how they all say that after they lost the weight. Before they lost the weight i'm sure they were telling people who said that to go F--k themselves. People Gain weight because they eat, and not move much, and to lose it you have to maintain a low level of calorie input per day, BELOW 2500. Ice cream, Pop, Cakes, Chocolate bars.. Plus Supper, and Breakfast, and Lunch, and the Second servings of Supper. All this adds up quick, 1 serving of an average supper/dinner meal is around 800-1000 calories. A bowl of ice cream is around 800 calories, a chocolate bar is around 300-500, pop is 800. It adds up very quickly.So you want to lose weight, Eat less. And if you don't want to eat less, Exercise a LOT. And if you don't want to exercise, than live with your lack of self control. If you enjoy life being big, All the power to you, life is meant to be enjoyed. As for this fella, 100 pounds is a Shit ton of weight. But unless he did it right, he may gain it all back, I hope he doesn't.
i try to eat low calorie food, but even than it takes 1000-2000 calories of that to make me full, any less and it hurts because im still hungry.
id rather be fat and not hurt than skinny and hurt.
i try to eat low calorie food, but even than it takes 1000-2000 calories of that to make me full, any less and it hurts because im still hungry. id rather be fat and not hurt than skinny and hurt.
... Drink water before each meal? You're lying to yourself. You're coming up with excuses because that's easier than actually putting in the effort.
I know that's cruel to say, but sometimes the truth is cruel.
Kudo! Bob
I always say that I don't feel bad for fat people because it's their fault they eat so much and don't excercise, but I guess I do kind of feel bad for the ones who work out regularly and still can't lose weight.
I guess I'm lucky, today I had mcdonalds for lunch and 1200 calories worth of chocolate frosted donuts for dinner, eating unhealthy is my life...oh and I'm 5'11 and weigh 145 pounds.
Calories burned - Calories eaten = weight lossIt's really freaking simple. You can live of chocolate bars and lose weight (although, obviously unhealthy for other reasons).
Not quite that simple. The truth is NO ONE can exercise enough(not counting teens and early 20s) to burn that many calories. You must eat less. When I was in my early twenties I ate over 5000 calories a day without gaining weight, but I was functioning at a level of physical activity fewer than 2% will ever EVER experience. When you reach the ripe old age of 30, it's just not possible anymore. Your metabolism(body's rate of repairing itself) is no longer fast enough to keep up with the wear and tear. You will literally wear out all your cartilage/ligaments/tendons if you try.
When you get to be as old as this guy in this article, the exercise becomes merely a means of limiting the muscle loss from dieting...it has virtually NO EFFECT on fat loss...fat loss all comes from the dieting.
I love how everyone here is all of the sudden an expert in weight loss. I might actually believe some of you clowns if I didn't know better. But considering this is a tech site, most of you are probably fat as it is.
Here is some advice for you. Take your own damn advice and stop trying to put others down because your self esteem is low.
I dropped from 245 pounds to 140 in one year.
I did this by quiting Soda's, fried foods, and red meat.
Also the average american should really eat about 1200 calories a day, NOT 2000 or more...
... Drink water before each meal? You're lying to yourself. You're coming up with excuses because that's easier than actually putting in the effort. I know that's cruel to say, but sometimes the truth is cruel.
filling up on watter? tried that as a diet a few years back, well it was more of i didn't have money for allot of food. but watter goes through my system in less than 15 minutes, and for some reason, if i'm any less than 75% full im hungry, and at about 25% it hurts.
so basically the meal that fills me up the most for the longest is about 2 1/2 cups of white rice, (the package says thats 5 servings) about 1/3 can of cream of chicken, about 3/5 can of mushrooms, and about 5/6 a chicken breast. that comes out to about 1200-1600 calories.
and yea i have had so much watter at one point i had been drinking so much watter that i was told by a doctor to cut back.
filling up on watter? tried that as a diet a few years back, well it was more of i didn't have money for allot of food. but watter goes through my system in less than 15 minutes, and for some reason, if i'm any less than 75% full im hungry, and at about 25% it hurts. so basically the meal that fills me up the most for the longest is about 2 1/2 cups of white rice, (the package says thats 5 servings) about 1/3 can of cream of chicken, about 3/5 can of mushrooms, and about 5/6 a chicken breast. that comes out to about 1200-1600 calories.and yea i have had so much watter at one point i had been drinking so much watter that i was told by a doctor to cut back.
Hmm... I know it's not easy. Maybe your body has gotten used to eat a lot so it's out of it.
I'm not saying replace meal with water, but drink a lot before meals makes you fill full faster. I know there's a study somewhere where they told people to eat as they normally would, but drink
before each meal. It turned out it caused them to eat less and lose weight.
Eat salad instead of rice. Also, cream chicken sounds like it's high in fat.
Not quite that simple. The truth is NO ONE can exercise enough(not counting teens and early 20s) to burn that many calories. You must eat less. When I was in my early twenties I ate over 5000 calories a day without gaining weight, but I was functioning at a level of physical activity fewer than 2% will ever EVER experience. When you reach the ripe old age of 30, it's just not possible anymore. Your metabolism(body's rate of repairing itself) is no longer fast enough to keep up with the wear and tear. You will literally wear out all your cartilage/ligaments/tendons if you try.When you get to be as old as this guy in this article, the exercise becomes merely a means of limiting the muscle loss from dieting...it has virtually NO EFFECT on fat loss...fat loss all comes from the dieting.
If you eat 0 calories, you cant burn enough to burn 0 calories? what are you talking about?
If I'm lucky street view will get a glance at my girlfriend's chest.
You really do not know much at all about dieting or exercising......if you do all that work and do not eat well/enough you can actually gain weight (and not in a good way)I guess you have an axe to grind against fat people but your post generally offended me and I am in great shape (although not as good as freshman year of college )
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403803,00.html
More work = More results.
Well done Mr. Mewse!
I love how everyone here is all of the sudden an expert in weight loss. I might actually believe some of you clowns if I didn't know better. But considering this is a tech site, most of you are probably fat as it is.Here is some advice for you. Take your own damn advice and stop trying to put others down because your self esteem is low.
It doesn't take much to understand weight loss, everyone IS an expert. Your body must burn more energy then it takes in to lose weight. This simply means your body will find other resources to get the energy it needs (like fat, and muscle). You can choose to eat 1 meal a day, or you can choose to eat 3 good meals a day and keep it under 2500 Calories while maintaining a decent activity level. Your body will be in perfect running condition.
I'm sure we've all done the research, its very simple and basic. But the hardest thing to do is to cut the eating habit and maintain a healthy eating habit. Years of eating w/e the hell you want is very hard to cut back on.
I dropped from 245 pounds to 140 in one year.I did this by quiting Soda's, fried foods, and red meat.Also the average american should really eat about 1200 calories a day, NOT 2000 or more...
1200 calories per day would cause a 5'10" male who weighs 41kg (~90lbs) to lose weight... Most experts would consider that to be a very unhealthy weight to begin with. You do need more calories than that, even if you are exercising, otherwise you will literally waste away to nothing.
You can't burn more calories than you intake and expect to survive; your body uses energy just maintain itself (circulatory system, digestion, cell division, etc.). Treating this problem as such a simplistic equation doesn't work.
1200 calories per day would cause a 5'10" male who weighs 41kg (~90lbs) to lose weight... Most experts would consider that to be a very unhealthy weight to begin with. You do need more calories than that, even if you are exercising, otherwise you will literally waste away to nothing. You can't burn more calories than you intake and expect to survive; your body uses energy just maintain itself (circulatory system, digestion, cell division, etc.). Treating this problem as such a simplistic equation doesn't work.
Lol, I was thinking of posting something about his post too. The average american isn't a 4 foot 12 year old girl. I currently burn 4000 calories per day (roughly), and I don't do any more work than any other average American. The average American should really eat 1200 calories a MEAL, not a day.
Knowing what needs to be done and actually making the time to do it every day are two entirely different problems. It's too easy to get caught up in every day challenges and forget to make healthy choices. It took being stuck in a hotel for 3 months to motivate me to go to the basement and use their gym, pool & sauna. I lost at least 14 pounds in 3 months (without any dieting) but gained it back when I moved out and returned to my regular routine. I know what I need to do, but it'll probably take seeing my image in profile on google street view to jolt me back into a gym.
Good news!
How many calories would he burned of masterbating everyday lol?
I'm more dumbstruck that he's just down the road from my mum.
I can hear his accent now, arr me luverrr ;-)
"If I can do it, anybody can" Funny how they all say that after they lost the weight. Before they lost the weight i'm sure they were telling people who said that to go F--k themselves. People Gain weight because they eat, and not move much, and to lose it you have to maintain a low level of calorie input per day, BELOW 2500. Ice cream, Pop, Cakes, Chocolate bars.. Plus Supper, and Breakfast, and Lunch, and the Second servings of Supper. All this adds up quick, 1 serving of an average supper/dinner meal is around 800-1000 calories. A bowl of ice cream is around 800 calories, a chocolate bar is around 300-500, pop is 800. It adds up very quickly.So you want to lose weight, Eat less. And if you don't want to eat less, Exercise a LOT. And if you don't want to exercise, than live with your lack of self control. If you enjoy life being big, All the power to you, life is meant to be enjoyed. As for this fella, 100 pounds is a Shit ton of weight. But unless he did it right, he may gain it all back, I hope he doesn't.
12oz can of Mt.dew is 160 cal... what soda do you drink that's 800!?
It'd take about 3 scoops of Baskin Robbins Ice cream to = 800 cal, and their stuff is notoriously fatty.
and a standard Snickers bar is only about 275 cal...
You can eat TONS of junk food and stay below 2500 calories easily.