Man loses 156 lbs. in 9 months with diet and exercise: ‘If I can do it, anybody can’

Image: Jeff Brinker to FOX Television Stations "I didn’t want to come to terms with why I ate the way I did, why I had an unhealthy lifestyle," Brinker said in an interview with FOX TV Stations.In 2016, Brinker had weight loss surgery and saw some success — he lost about 100 pounds — but he "fell back into old habits" pretty quickly."I never addressed the issue between the years of what I was supposed to be eating," he said.Image: Jeff Brinker to FOX Television Stations Brinker’s children, both in the Air Force and "very fit," had pleaded with him to lose weight for years.

He had started to "whittle it down a little," he said, but it was a trip to his doctor’s office in September 2021 that fueled his incredible weight loss journey."He asked if I wanted to be on diabetes medication, then started rattling off a list of other medications.

I said no," Brinker recalled. "I came out of doctor’s office and haven’t had sweets since, haven’t had a beer since."Brinker immediately reduced his calorie intake to 1,200 a day, but he now says that probably wasn’t enough food."I probably crash dieted for the first four or five months," he said. "Now I eat 1600-1800 calories a day, but I’m burning that much at the gym."Image: Jeff Brinker to FOX Television Stations Not long after he left the doctor’s office, he downloaded an app to track his food intake and measure just how much he’d been eating before he quit "eating garbage" cold turkey."I was a little astounded.

I was kind of bury the head in the sand prior to that," Brinker said. "I’m like, there’s no way I’m eating that much, and I was."Brinker spends 90 minutes at the gym every day and doesn’t keep any sweets in the house.