He lost 197 lbs. It took him 11 months

[WeightLoss Story]

Rick Genter, 44
He lost 197 lbs. It took him 11 months
When Rick Genter’s mother died of cancer in 1988, he couldn’t shake the feeling that her weight had something to do with her death. The software engineer from Arlington, Mass., vowed to free himself from his family’s legacy of obesity.

For 14 years, Genter, 6’2”, had tried program after program, but his weight loss never stuck. After an embarrassing incident at a parking lot—he couldn’t squeeze into his car on his way to lunch with coworkers because another car had parked too close—he snapped. “I got angry and said to myself that I just had to do something about my weight,” he says. He signed up for the Decision Free program with Health Management Resources (HMR), a medically supervised low-calorie diet plan.

Instead of the buffalo wings he had been eating several times a week, Genter drank only special shakes for four months, before graduating to prepackaged entrées. After less than a year, he was down to what he’d weighed at the age of 12. “Having been heavy my entire life,” he says, “once I lost the weight, it took me about a year before I could recognize myself in the mirror.”

How He Did It: Health Management Resources
Health Management Resources (HMR) is a medically based weight-management program administered by hospitals and medical facilities throughout the U.S. More than 800,000 people have participated.


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