{"id":1265,"date":"2014-01-06T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:37:45","slug":"goodwill-store-manager-lost-142-pounds-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/goodwill-store-manager-lost-142-pounds-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodwill Store Manager Lost 142 Pounds and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exactly one year ago Todd Bozes\u2019 wife brought him a gift. It was a brand new scale – one that registers higher weights than the standard bathroom model. Without thinking too much, Todd stepped up.<\/p>\n

401pounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never eating again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the start of a new year and this week hundreds of thousands of Americans are making commitments to lose weight. According to a University of Scranton study, weight loss is the number one New Year\u2019s resolution. But unfortunately, only 8% will achieve their desired goal.<\/p>\n

Last year, Todd Bozes, a Goodwill store manager, was one of those people and made the resolution to lose weight. He is also a member of that 8% group.<\/p>\n

To date, Todd has lost 142 lb\u2019s. He has dropped from a 58\u201d waist to a 44\u201d waist and went down three shirt sizes. He even lost weight in his feet! Todd\u2019s shoe size went from 12 \u00bd to 10 \u00bd. His wedding band had to be adjusted. It went from fitting his ring finger to fitting his thumb.<\/p>\n

Goodwill stores don\u2019t resize jewelry, but Todd could find everything else he needed on the racks at Goodwill. \u201cI bought new pants every four inches and donated clothes that I no longer could wear,\u201d he said. Todd has met other people who do the same.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hope to get into a size \u2018large\u2019 shirt and 34\u201d jeans when all is said and done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The question he is asked the most is: \u201cHow did you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n

His reply, \u201cNo pills, no surgery, no restrictions. I count calories and use portion control.\u201d He stopped drinking soda and instead drinks four bottles of water each day. He doesn\u2019t snack at night, cutting off his food intake at 7pm. Instead of eating a heavy lunch, he walks two miles.<\/p>\n

The simple gift of the scale was the encouragement Todd needed to protect the well-being of his family, his wife Beth, 4-year old son and brand new baby boy born January 3, 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to do whatever needs to be done to ensure that you are around to support and love those close to you for a long, long time. Losing this weight now is putting me in a better position to do just that,\u201d explained Todd.<\/p>\n

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        By stylist and blogger, Annette K.   Exactly one year ago Todd Bozes\u2019 wife brought him a gift. It was a brand new scale – one that registers higher weights than the standard bathroom model. Without thinking too much, Todd stepped up. 401pounds. \u201cI\u2019m never eating again,\u201d he said. It\u2019s the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,17,18,26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}