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Dropping LBs: Weight loss success stories

Searching for the desire to lose weight? Read weight loss success stories by local Long Islanders, including their diets, exercises, and general advice that got them in shape.

Bob Timpson, walks about 6 miles a day

Photo credit: Handout; Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | Bob Timpson, walks about 6 miles a day broken into two sessions. He also does a daily 45-minute calisthenics routine. "It was something I designed myself, and it works for me," Timpson says. Between September 2012 and March 2013 Timpson lost 100-pounds.

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