I began to realize I had to address my weight when I kept having to buy pant sizes larger and larger. The day I joined Retrofit, it was like a little switch went off, and I said, "Well, time to make a change. It's on." So I just jumped right in.

Before Retrofit, one of the things that was happening is I would come home from work exhausted, eat a giant meal because I was ravenous, and then just flop down on the couch in exhaustion. Then get up and do it all over again.

Now, I'm not doing that. I'm actually feeling better even after a long arduous day. Eating a sensible meal, getting my steps in, feeling better, and sleeping better. I'm in my fifth week of the program. I've lost 13 pounds. That's 6% of my body weight.

I think the power in Retrofit is bringing the data together with the network of experts and collaborating to make you a healthier individual. When I saw this, it was data driven, scientific, and quantifiable. To me, it just made a lot of sense to have something like that helping me get to my goal.

The transition in my eating habits was actually pretty easy with the help of the dietician. I went from eating irregular giant meals to just eating five smaller, controlled meals with sensible portions, and my wife says that I am no longer snoring like I used to. Less snoring means that I'm no longer getting little elbows or kicks in the middle of the night. So I can stay sleeping for a better period of time, and it means my wife is getting better sleep herself.

Well, a great milestone is that I can fit into pairs of jeans that I haven't been able to fit into for a few years. The bad thing about that is that I've actually donated or gotten rid of a lot of cool clothes that I could probably fit into now.