How I Lost 50 Pounds in 7 months

Rob Thompson
3 min readJan 8, 2024

As I sit down to write this, I am weighing in at 174 pounds. I’m down 50 pounds from my high of 224 in May of last year.

How did I do this?

I am a programmer and retired military. I treated this like an algorithm and incorporated the daily habits needed into my ‘battle rhythm’. More on this in a moment…I think it’s important we talk about the why. To do this, you need a why.

My Why

In the span of one week in May of 2023, a couple of things happened. First, my daughter called me ‘Jelly Belly’ (this…

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