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Dropping Pounds: Bob Timpson of Holbrook

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.

HIS STORY "There were a couple of times in my life when my weight was down quite a bit, but mostly I was overweight all my life and just accepted it as the albatross around my neck," Bob Timpson says. "Over the last 10 or 15 years, it was 200-plus, easy."

He says he was always conscious of his weight but hadn't really resolved to do anything about it.

"I always did some exercise, but...

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