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Jamie Costello
Age: Guess
Height: Almost 6'
Weight: Guess Again
Club: Brick Bodies Padonia
Trainer: Sharon Neher |
- Wants to weigh less than the baby elephant at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.
- Wants to stop looking like a Thanksgiving Day Balloon sitting next to Denise…
- Frustrated that pin stripe suits are now crooked stripes on the air.
- Tired of racing Inner Harbor East to see which would expand faster…The city? Or my belly?
- Need to take off the pounds so that I can stop getting punched in the ribs every night by my wife for snoring.
- Better for the heart!
- I coach two baseball teams and I preach to my players to stay in shape…its time to do as I say.
- Thanks to Lynne and Victor Brick, my trainer Sharon & Diet to Go. This is the most motivated I’ve felt to get in shape in YEARS.
- Week 1: 251.4 lbs.
- Week 2: 244.4 lbs.
- Week 3: 241 lbs.
- Week 4: 236.8 lbs.
- Week 5: 235.2 lbs.
- Week 6: 233.6 lbs.
- Week 7: 231.4 lbs.
- Week 8: 231.2 lbs.
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Denise Dory
Age: I've conveniently forgotten
Height: My ideal height, minus 3 inches
Weight: I think the scale may be off.
Trainer: Johanna O'Connell |
- Wants to lose 12 pounds (15 would be better).
- To be fit and healthy
- To be the size I was before my second child was born. I could never be the size I was before my first child. Too much has shifted.
- Fit into the clothes I could wear comfortably two years ago.
- Toned arms, legs and abs.
- Develop a healthier routine.
- You know how Vienna sausages are packed into a can? That's how I feel in my clothes.
- You have to be comfortable in your own skin. The key is to be a healthy weight.
- My husband is so supportive and he's now motivated to exercise more and eat better. We joke that right now I'm his before picture. I can't wait to be the after picture.
- Week 1: 140.6 lbs.
- Week 2: 138.4 lbs.
- Week 3: 137.2 lbs.
- Week 4: 137.2 lbs.
- Week 5: 136 lbs.
- Week 6: 134.2 lbs.
- Week 7: 133 lbs.
- Week 8: 132.4 lbs.
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C. Ross Cooke
Age: 55
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 229 lbs.
Club: Brick Bodies Perry Hall
Trainer: Chip Kafka |
- Wants to lose 45 lbs.
- Is a firefighter captain, wants to get in shape so he can perform at a high level and set an
example for the younger firefighters.
- Wants to help jump start the physical fitness program that his department is trying to implement.
There are 1000 people in his department.
- Wife has had cancer since 2005 and in 2007 it became stage 4 meta-static disease. His wife
has been going thru treatment and is fighting this with all she has. He is going to use her as
his inspiration for this weight loss challenge.
- Has high blood pressure and kidney stones, all he thinks can be eliminated if he loses
weight and gets healthier.
- Is the father of 4 teenagers.
- Week 1: 231.0 lbs.
- Week 2: 218.4 lbs.
- Week 3: 210.8 lbs.
- Week 4: 203.2 lbs.
- Week 5: 200 lbs.
- Week 6: 198.2 lbs.
- Week 7: 193.8 lbs.
- Week 8: 187 lbs.
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Jessica Cruise
Age: 31
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 196 lbs.
Club: Brick Bodies Perry Hall
Trainer: Ben O'Donnell |
- Wants to lose 40lbs.
- Sadness & depression from a miscarriage last May have lead to her weight gain.
- Recently engaged, wants to feel comfortable at her wedding.
- Wants to take control of her life and make good decisions.
- Currently in school to be a Dietitian, wants to practice what she preaches.
- Week 1: 193.4 lbs.
- Week 2: 184.4 lbs.
- Week 3: 183.4 lbs.
- Week 4: 181 lbs.
- Week 5: 178.8 lbs.
- Week 6: 177.4 lbs.
- Week 7: 175.4 lbs.
- Week 8: 168.4 lbs.
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Dennis Tokofsky
Age: 36
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 269 lbs.
Club: Brick Bodies Perry Hall
Trainer: Jason Phipps |
- Wants to lose 30 lbs.
- Motivation to lose weight is for wife, son & recently deceased father.
- Father died of a heart attack, just before he passed away his father had told him that he
wanted nothing more than for his son to get in shape and lead a healthy lifestyle.
- Currently works for Rite Aid Pharmacy, wants to lose weight and get promoted to higher
management in the company.
- Wants to coach his son’s baseball team, son is embarrassed of his father and wants him to
lose weight before he coaches him.
- Has had a hard time dealing with the passing of his father.
- Week 1: 266.0 lbs.
- Week 2: 256.6 lbs.
- Week 3: 253.8 lbs.
- Week 4: 248 lbs.
- Week 5: 244.2 lbs.
- Week 6: 243.4 lbs.
- Week 7: 235.2 lbs.
- Week 8: 231.4 lbs.
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Lisa D. Collins
Age: 36
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 201 lbs.
Club: Lynne Brick's Belvedere
Trainer: Brandie Sylfae |
- Wants to lose 70lbs.
- Motivation to lose weight is to live currently has Breast Cancer, losing weight will make her
stronger & healthier.
- Contributes weight gain to cancer and having type 1 diabetes.
- Currently she is taking a lot of medication feels losing weight will get her off some of her
medication.
- Being overweight worsened the Endometriosis in her pelvis resulting in an abdominal hysterectomy
last August. This means she will never be able to have children.
- Week 1: 200.4 lbs.
- Week 2: 200.6 lbs.
- Week 3: 198.6 lbs.
- Week 4: 198.2 lbs.
- Week 5: 194.6 lbs.
- Week 6: 194.4 lbs.
- Week 7: 193.2 lbs.
- Week 8: 194.4 lbs.
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Ed Morris
Age: 27
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 313 lbs.
Club: Brick Bodies Reisterstown
Trainer: Larry Ray |
- Wants to lose 70 lbs.
- Motivated to lose weight for his wife and children.
- Was a former baseball player during that time his father was very proud of him, now not so
much, wants his father to be proud of him again.
- Want to lose weight very bad, had the fear of not being picked for this challenge.
- Uses food as a problem solver, has been his downfall.
- Week 1: 314.2 lbs.
- Week 2: 303.4 lbs.
- Week 3: 290.4 lbs.
- Week 4: 280 lbs.
- Week 5: 270 lbs.
- Week 6: 260.6 lbs.
- Week 7: 255.2 lbs.
- Week 8: 243.8 lbs.
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Michelle Barrett
Age: 22
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 225 lbs.
Club: Lynne Brick's Owings Mills
Trainer: Marion Bolding |
- Wants to lose 40lbs.
- Getting married in October, wants to look good and feel healthy for her wedding.
- Very low self-esteem, seems to overdue herself to make up for inadequacies, crack’s jokes,
work’s extra hard and is overly helpful to make people like her. This leavers her exhausted.
- Parents divorce was an emotion time for her, she dealt with this by over eating to numb the
pain.
- Has just recently reconnected with her father after years of little to no communication.
- Quit smoking as of January 1st.
- Week 1: 225.4 lbs.
- Week 2: 221.2 lbs.
- Week 3: 217 lbs.
- Week 4: 213.4 lbs.
- Week 5: 213 lbs.
- Week 6: 211.6 lbs.
- Week 7: 207.6 lbs.
- Week 8: 207.2 lbs.
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Darrell Green
Age: 52
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 333 lbs.
Club: Brick bodies Reisterstown
Trainer:Rommie Wheeler |
- Wants to lose 40lbs.
- His motivation to lose weight is for his 17 year old son, wants to help him and be there for him for a long time to come.
- Divorced 8 years ago.
- Social life is lacking would like to meet a woman he can spend the rest of his life with.
- Gets winded after walking up 3 flights of stairs.
- Former owner of Darrell’s Almost Famous Ice Creamery.
- Huge sports fan wants to get in shape and run the Boston Marathon.
- Week 1: 334.6 lbs.
- Week 2: 324 lbs.
- Week 3: 320.6 lbs.
- Week 4: 319.8 lbs.
- Week 5: 311.6 lbs.
- Week 6: 308.4 lbs.
- Week 7: 304.8 lbs.
- Week 8: 301.4 lbs.
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Tawney Wood
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 224 lbs.
Club: Brick Bodies Padonia
Trainer: Gary Greenberg |
- Wants to lose 65lbs.
- Wants to lose weight for her daughter to teach her balance and a healthy lifestyle.
- Also wants to lose weight for her husband he was deployed to Iraq last October, wants to
surprise him when he comes home to a healthy, sexy wife.
- Sleeps all the time due to lack of energy.
- Was on antidepressants. Recently stopped due to unwanted effects.
- Week 1: 220.0 lbs.
- Week 2: 219.0 lbs.
- Week 3: 216.2 lbs.
- Week 4: 211.6 lbs.
- Week 5: 210.6 lbs.
- Week 6: 207.8 lbs.
- Week 7: 206 lbs.
- Week 8: 202.6 lbs.
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