Fitness Mentor Weight Loss Success Story
Name Jim Mayfield
Home Point Pleasant, NJ
Age 38
Height 5'8"
Job Branch-manager vice president for a brokerage firm
Weight before 218 lb
Weight after 152 lb
THE GAINMayfield's long workdays included cheesesteak or pasta lunches, delivered to his desk and expensed to the company. He'd grab fatty fast food before and after his 2-hour commute, and his nighttime routine consisted of TV and bed. He was 70 pounds overweight and had no energy.THE CHANGEWhen his company stopped footing the bill for lunch, Mayfield grabbed the chance to get healthy. He recruited Christian Forsyth, a coworker and leukemia survivor, to be his fitness mentor. "Even when Christian was going through his chemotherapy treatments, he would work out," Mayfield says. "I thought, 'If a guy who's fighting cancer can do this, then why can't I?" He began riding his bike 20 miles after work and improved his diet with Forsyth's help.THE RESULTMayfield took off 66 pounds in a year. On his new regimen, he eats a banana or a plain bagel at work each morning and drinks several glasses of water throughout the day. Lunch is usually ham, turkey, and cheese on whole-grain bread, or soup and pretzels. For dinner, he'll have a light pasta dish or a fish fillet lightly breaded and baked.THE REWARDMayfield loves to dispense the advice Forsyth gave him. "It's nice to help other people," Mayfield says. One beneficiary: a coworker he inspired to walk 17 blocks to the train station with him every day after work. Mayfield and Forsyth finished a 111-mile bike race for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Tucson last year and plan to do another this month.JIM'S WORKOUTMayfield runs 6 to 8 miles three times a week and bikes at least 25 miles twice a week. He also jumps rope and does three sets of 30 pushups twice a week.JIM'S TIPS
Home Point Pleasant, NJ
Age 38
Height 5'8"
Job Branch-manager vice president for a brokerage firm
Weight before 218 lb
Weight after 152 lb
THE GAINMayfield's long workdays included cheesesteak or pasta lunches, delivered to his desk and expensed to the company. He'd grab fatty fast food before and after his 2-hour commute, and his nighttime routine consisted of TV and bed. He was 70 pounds overweight and had no energy.THE CHANGEWhen his company stopped footing the bill for lunch, Mayfield grabbed the chance to get healthy. He recruited Christian Forsyth, a coworker and leukemia survivor, to be his fitness mentor. "Even when Christian was going through his chemotherapy treatments, he would work out," Mayfield says. "I thought, 'If a guy who's fighting cancer can do this, then why can't I?" He began riding his bike 20 miles after work and improved his diet with Forsyth's help.THE RESULTMayfield took off 66 pounds in a year. On his new regimen, he eats a banana or a plain bagel at work each morning and drinks several glasses of water throughout the day. Lunch is usually ham, turkey, and cheese on whole-grain bread, or soup and pretzels. For dinner, he'll have a light pasta dish or a fish fillet lightly breaded and baked.THE REWARDMayfield loves to dispense the advice Forsyth gave him. "It's nice to help other people," Mayfield says. One beneficiary: a coworker he inspired to walk 17 blocks to the train station with him every day after work. Mayfield and Forsyth finished a 111-mile bike race for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Tucson last year and plan to do another this month.JIM'S WORKOUTMayfield runs 6 to 8 miles three times a week and bikes at least 25 miles twice a week. He also jumps rope and does three sets of 30 pushups twice a week.JIM'S TIPS
- Buy a heart-rate monitor that calculates calories burned. "If I burned off 800 calories today, I know I'm 800 calories ahead of the game."
- Plan ahead. "I'll make a big portion of something healthy on Sunday, then I'll have it during the week. If you're hungry coming home, you know it's there, and you won't grab a couple of slices of pizza."
- Leave leftovers. "I don't take home any leftovers from dinner parties or even my mother's Italian cooking. If it's in the house, I know I'll overdo it."
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