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College professor goes from fat to 'Mr. Low Body Fat' (link)

Story Highlights:
* Professor Muata Kamdibe weighed 310 pounds with 44 percent body fat
* At his heaviest, he felt miserable and disguted with himself and lacked confidence
* Kamdibe began counting calories and using his own body weight to work out
* He lost 133 pounds and reduced his body fat to 6.5 percent in four years

He decided 310 pounds was too much, lost some weight but plateaued on Atkins, then:

Originally Posted by Mr. Low Body Fat (story)

He knew something was wrong and began doing what he knew best -- research. He began reading everything he could about weight loss, how the body processes food and exercise regimens for Olympic athletes.

Kamdibe discovered he had to take a different approach to his diet and exercise regimen. Instead of lifting weights he used his own body weight for resistance. He also modified his extremely low-carbohydrate or no-carb diet -- and focused on how much food he was eating.

"You have to control how many calories you take in," says Kamdibe. "[Before] I didn't care about calories, I constantly ate throughout the day ... I didn't realize how many calories I was actually consuming."

Kamdibe chronicled his progress online on a blog he called "Mr. Low Body Fat." It started out as a way to hold himself accountable and update friends, but it also allowed him to inspire others who were trying to lose weight.

"I wanted to create a blog for the average person to understand that they can lose weight. They don't have to pay a lot of money to a trainer, they don't have to follow all of these different programs," Kamdibe says. "I decided to call it Mr. Low Body Fat to challenge myself."

And here's his Blog (link)

(I could have posted this under 'exercise' too, it's both)