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Lake Placid Diet

LAKE PLACID DIET: Haystack was a tough little mountain

This week: 395 lbs. Last week: 395 lbs. Start: 470 lbs. Total lost: 75 lbs. - When it comes to hiking, I didn’t know my physical limit until Sunday, June 29, when I climbed Haystack Mountain — the little one in Ray Brook, not the third tallest mountain (4,960 feet) in the Adirondacks ...

LAKE PLACID DIET: A promise to stay active in the Adirondacks

This week: 395 lbs. Last week: 400 lbs. Start: 470 lbs. Total lost: 75 lbs. - The last time I saw my friend Randy Lewis was New Year’s Eve. With a scarf on her head, she told me about her battle with cancer. I had no idea it would get worse. I had no idea that would be our last ...

LAKE PLACID DIET: A family that runs together gets fit together

This week: 400 lbs. Last week: 395 lbs. Start: 470 lbs. Total lost: 70 lbs. - Looking through the results of the Biggest Loser 5k Run/Walk in Plattsburgh on June 1, a name near the top of my age group caught my eye because he lives in Lake Placid: John Flanigan, 44. I’ve never met ...

LAKE PLACID DIET: Time to hit the trails

This week: 395 lbs. Last week: 390 lbs. Start: 470 lbs. Total lost: 75 lbs. - I took a one-week break from the newsroom after finishing the Lake Placid Half-Marathon to rest and think about what fitness challenges I’d like to tackle this summer. As expected, I decided to head back ...

LAKE PLACID DIET: My Lake Placid Half-Marathon experience

June 10: 390 lbs. June 3: 395 lbs. Start: 470 lbs. Total lost: 80 lbs. - I was seconds away from being hauled off in an ambulance. “Are you all right?” asked my twin brother Steve Flynn, who was walking the Lake Placid Half-Marathon with me and our childhood friend Dan ...

LAKE PLACID DIET: Feeling stronger with my Fitness Revolution family

This week: 395 lbs. Last week: 396 lbs. Start: 470 lbs. Total lost: 75 lbs. - As I train for the Lake Placid Half-Marathon alongside physically fit athletes — some of them Olympians — walking the roadways of Lake Placid and working out at the Fitness Revolution gym, I gawk in ...