[ocirion]

I think its great that you accomplished this, and I guess seeing as its hit the front page of HN you may inspire a few tech folk to believe they can too. But I still find nothing new to take from this that you can't find on just about any Paleo, low carb, excercise site (i.e Mark's Daily Apple).

You changed to Paleo. You worked out 3 times a week. You took some supplements. You saw some results. You did this with a day job (albeit 4 day a week job) and a family.

What new obstacle did you overcome ? what breakthrough did you achieve ?

I think your achievement is commendable, just not sure what its doing on the front page of HN.

[ryancarson]

The hard part was achieving this during a tremendously stressful period of my life (raising money and launching a company).

Also, I was never able to achieve success before, even though I tried multiple times.

[madaxe]

Good on you, dude - thought you were looking rather more trim the last time I spied you in town. Did the same, and dropped from 18.5 stone to 13 over 9 months. Eat food, not too much, mostly leaves. Run. Done. Oh, and withings scales. Can't be without them.

That said, I still need to lose the final, irksome bit of gut. pulls finger out, decides to get some new running shoes

[is74]

It's valuable because his example proves to everyone that such change is possible. Simply knowing someone busy who managed to get fit is motivating. It gives me (and others, I'm sure) the confidence that I could get fit with a very reasonable amount of effort.