Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In this special Get Fit Guy episode, you're going to discover how 55-year-old triathlete Jim McIntosh use the same kind of advice you'll find jam-packed into my new book,

Get Fit Guys' guide to achieve your ideal body type, to lose over 130 pounds in his health

quest to lose weight and achieve his dreams. If you want to learn how to get fit for your body

type and how to

achieve your goals no matter who you are, what you weigh, or what kind of shape you're in,

then this episode is for you. You'll also find more information about Jim's journey over at

get fit guy.quickanddirty tips.com where you can find the show notes for this episode.

With me today on the call is a guy who I've gotten to know really well over the past few years.

He first came to me a few years ago to talk pretty seriously about weight loss.

And boy, have we come a long way since then and he's now

doing some pretty cool things. Jim McIntosh is his name. He's got a website over at ain't done yet.

Dot net where you can check out some of his writing and some of the cool things that he's up to.

Let's just go ahead and launch right in for folks and tell them where you were at.

What was it?

Four years ago?

I think it was four years ago.

Yeah.

Four years ago, I certainly wasn't a very happy person.

I'm 5'10, and I weighed about 340 pounds, and I was trying to lose weight.

I was doing what I could physically, but I was just not getting anywhere. I wasn't even a hamster on the

wheel. And I started looking for answers as why not. And of course, I turned to traditional medicine and the pop culture, what was being taught and out there.

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