The Year That Was: Ed Levine Started a Diet
The Year That Was, as measured by Ed's waistline.
Ed started his diet on January 10. He flirted briefly with 100-calorie snack packs, was rebuked for it, and then renounced them. Still questionable: Ed's ideal diet breakfast—Diet Coke, potato chips, and a banana. Then again, he did discover his inner bok choy, which makes a weird kind of sense, I suppose.
And for a series of posts that you'd think would have been fairly innocuous, it managed to incite mild controversy when The-Feedbag's Josh Ozersky attacks Ed and then posts a retraction.
My main beef with Ed's diet posts is that they have inspired my girlfriend to get on my case about starting my own serious diet.
But let's focus on the positive. Ed started his diet at 254 pounds and is now down to 233 pounds. Net loss for the year so far: 21 pounds. Good job, Ed!
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7 Comments:
awww, way to go. stellar job! :)
aidank at 7:38PM on 12/30/08
Ed--it happened so slowly, I didn't realize how dramatic that was-- 21 pounds, why that's amazing! My overweight chihuahua weighs 10! You've lost more than 2 overweight chihuahuas!
HeartofGlass at 7:46PM on 12/30/08
Congratulations, Ed!
Steen at 7:50PM on 12/30/08
Congratios!
Nebagakid at 8:25PM on 12/30/08
Way to go Ed! I'm still on a multi-year plan to get down from my top ever weight of 260 to 190. The holidays have set me back a bit as always, but I've got 30 more to go and I'm hoping to have that down to 15 or less by the end of '09. So keep up the good work!
trialbyfood at 10:22PM on 12/30/08
I'm so glad he gave up the 100-calorie packs. *shudder*
cakespy at 1:26AM on 12/31/08
The slower the weight loss the better. Congratulations Ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ended the year 20 lbs lighter and still have another 15 to go.... At times it is discouraging but down is always better than up......keep moving forward...............
Jbout at 10:43AM on 12/31/08