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Nov 18, 2008 1:33 p.m. billydlight:

Hey Guys, I know better than anyone that sometimes the Guitar Player/Rock an Roll lifestyle can really ruin your health. I used to weigh almost 400lbs. But if you want to you can change your life. I got some help and now I do motivational speaking to try to help others who have had the same issues I had. If anyone in the South Jersey Philadelphia area is interested I am speaking at a Seminar in Marlton NJ on Saturday Nov 22nd at 1:00p at Smart Bodies Personal Fitness on Rt 70 at the Marlton Circle in the shopping plaza behind Champps Bar and Grille. Come out, its free and you need to know if you want YOU can change your life

Here's a little motivator

Before

After

Anything is possible. PM me if you have any questions!
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Nov 18, 2008 1:50 p.m. Tsar Nicholas :

Love that suit, Billy.
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Nov 18, 2008 1:57 p.m. billydlight:

It is a winner. Wait till you see the two new ones I just got!
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Nov 18, 2008 1:58 p.m. Tux:

Does this thread lead to Amway?
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Nov 18, 2008 2:10 p.m. billydlight:

D'oh you got me. Nah no tricks. I just want to help people.
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Nov 18, 2008 2:14 p.m. Richard Hudson:

That's a startling reminder Billy. It's amazing how much control we have over our own destiny. BTW, you look great in your new suit man. Congratulations.

Richard
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Nov 18, 2008 2:24 p.m. CnW:

Fantastic, Billy!

When we're young, we can survive and feel great on nothing but Cheetos and Budweiser. But the years have a way of telling on us. I know the answer, but I'll ask anyway; how you feelin' these days?
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Nov 18, 2008 2:32 p.m. MR TROUBLE:

Yea I need this...but I need to be shipped off to a camp somewhere where you can only eat greens and drink water. It's tough when you're surrounded by fast food joints, bombarded by fast food commericals, and my wife and I are tired from working so we hardly ever cook something healthy. In the academy I was doing pretty good...running all the time...but when you have a drill instructor yelling at you saying you're going to "fk'ing die!!" it's a pretty good motivator.

I have a new BoFlex and a treadmill. Now it's just a matter of using them. Ok tonight I'm gonna use them...it's just hard sticking to a schedule. Maybe I should just go down to Home Depot and buy a staple gun and staple my jaw shut.
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Nov 18, 2008 2:53 p.m. roadjunkie:

That's some good work Billy! Not to be a smartass but you made that Guild look small! The benefits of hard work show. Good job! Before you posted this I had no idea! I just thought you were a ridalin kid!
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Nov 18, 2008 3:27 p.m. seadevil:

I'm lucky enough to stay skinny with virtually no effort. It's staying focused on other less tangible goals that's hard! Your achievements (on guitar as well as weight loss) are an inspiration.
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Nov 18, 2008 3:30 p.m. Proteus:

Billy, that's powerful testimony to any of us who have ever tried to change ANYthing about our own runaway lives. It's a physical thing for you, but it's also an "outward and visible manifestation" of the inward state it required to make it happen.

Maybe it's not overweight with each of us – but it's bound to be something else holding us down and holding us back and distorting our lives.

Your health, vigor, drive, and discipline show (and are heard) in the way you approach playing, and in your music.

Kudos to you, and congratulations, and damn right that suit looks good, and you've earned it.
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Nov 18, 2008 4:22 p.m. crowbone:

I didn't know Guild made mandolins like that!!

Ok, OK...I'll post mine too.
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Nov 18, 2008 4:26 p.m. Ric12string:

Billy, you are a tremendous role model for each of us on here. Thanks for sharing, not only with us, but with so many others to whom you speak. Congratulations to you on your achievements!
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Nov 18, 2008 4:27 p.m. DangerousMan:

Good for you Billy - and fair play to you for using your positive experience to help others. I stopped smoking over a year ago now. I haven't helped anybody quit and I have no intention to either. Screw 'em. Bunch of idiots.
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Nov 18, 2008 4:58 p.m. Mark G:

Wow that is an inspiration!

Proteus said: but it's also an "outward and visible manifestation" of the inward state...

That sounds sacramental.
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Nov 18, 2008 5:17 p.m. Deed Eddy:

I was going to say "Holy Moly", but Mark G said it for me. Amazing determination, Billy...good on ya.
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Nov 18, 2008 5:36 p.m. billydlight:

Thanks everyone!

However what I need to know is: Who can I help? who is in my area and will come to the seminar for some old fashioned hellfire and brimstone life changing info?? I tell ya this: IT IS NOT AS HARD As YOU THINK. And I was NEVER in any kind of shape. I was a fat kid who grew into a fat adult, and at the ripe old age of 38 got told I had a very short time to live, and two years and 200lbs later I have been given a clean bill of health. I feel a real obligation to pass that info on to those who need it.
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Nov 19, 2008 6:36 a.m. billydlight:

C'mon fellas who wants to live?!
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Nov 19, 2008 7:15 a.m. Curt:

There might be a few that don't quite understand Billy, I was one of them 'till we met. A truly positive person with a ton of energy and fun to be around. Great job Billy!

Was that a half scale Guild?
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Nov 19, 2008 8:23 a.m. cielski:

Billy I don't have that problem. What I want to know is more about that Guild. I've got an M65-3/4 that looks quite similar to yours. I don't have the Franz PUs, tho. That looks to be a well played and enjoyed guitar.
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Nov 19, 2008 10:42 a.m. billydlight:

That Guitar only looks Half scale. It is a CE100D and truly one of the most inspiring guitars I've ever laid my hands on. It just looks small on a 400lb Guy
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Nov 19, 2008 12:23 p.m. Tux:

billy, You did a great job. wtg.
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Nov 20, 2008 9:15 p.m. TNO:

"I tell ya this: IT IS NOT AS HARD As YOU THINK."

Care to give us the nickel tour of how you changed your life?
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Nov 20, 2008 9:46 p.m. texarock:

Right On Brother!
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Nov 20, 2008 10:03 p.m. truthtellerspook:

Good for you, Billy.

I just finished cooking up some fresh green beans. Cooked a potato... no butter, no sour cream.

Late morning/early afternoon meal, sour dough garlic bread, no hydrogenated fats. Some refried beans, no lard, zero fats. A touch of prime rib, small (very) pieces for flavor, amounting to a sliver cut up into niblets, not the type of gorge that most associate with prime rib.

Fruits during the day, banana, blueberries, watermelon.

Will work the bullworker a bit in about an hour.

Yeah, I subscribe to a healthy weight.

Garlic, raw.

Pure yogurt. Milk and bacteria and that's it. Have made my own. No crud. Put fresh blueberries, blackberries, black grapes in.

I'm going to clue some of you in about something.

There was a day when the food supply didn't use corn syrup solids, corn syrup sweeteners. From the time that crud was introduced into our food supplies to now, obesity and attendant diabetes have risen with the increased percentages of that mess.

Turns you into a porker (some less prone to effects, the majority puts it on), overloads your system, blowing out your pancreas', "program," for regulating during your lifetime, rendering you diabetic meds prey. Cause and solution. Akin to parent corporation having tentacles in both a tobacco company and a drug company knocking out cancer meds.

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