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The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Chris Coleson, one-time surfer, hiker and MVP on his high school soccer team, weighed in at 185 pounds before he got married in 1998. "After the kids came, she lost her pregnancy weight, and I kept mine," Coleson, 42, told the paper. He eventually tipped the scales at nearly 300 pounds, gaining 45 pounds alone from August to November 2007. He had tried time and again to lose weight, but his attempts were nothing but false starts.
So he made a bold promise to his wife, Tricia Sumner. He would lose the weight, and he would do it by eating nothing but food from McDonald's. He chose McDonald's only because its locations were convenient for him. "There was a level of fear after I said that," Coleson told the Times-Dispatch. "At that point, I had to stick with it." (For the record, Coleson has no affiliation with McDonald's--other than eating there twice a day.)
So what does he eat? Mostly salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce. Occasionally, he has a cheeseburger without the bun. He eats two meals a day and tries to keep his calorie count to 1,200 to 1,400 calories. This isn't something you should emulate. The average man needs 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day or his metabolism will slow down, warns registered dietician Mary-Jo Sawyer, who is with the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center at Stony Point. She also told the Times-Dispatch that Coleson not only should be eating breakfast, a meal he skips, but also needs more nutritional variety in his meals. Still, he was successful. He started the diet on December 3 and dropped from 278 pounds to 199.
