Zotime Congradulates the Twins

No... not those twins, but the twins on the Biggest Looser. Jim and Bill Germanakos who combined lost 370 pounds in 15 weeks on the TV show The Biggest Loser.

Bill, who is a medical salesman, stands 5-feet-8, and took home the $250,000 grand prize by going from 334 pounds to 170 over the 15-week series. Twin brother Jim, a Freeport police officer from Massapequa, earned $100,000 for dropping from 361 to 175, and losing 132 of those pounds at home after his fifth-week elimination.

Bill described the defining moment of his life as an obese person. He stated that he took his daughter to an amusement park and waiting in line for an hour to ride the front car of a roller coaster. “And I didn’t fit. They tried so hard, it was painful, when I got up and we had to walk away with everyone looking at me.”

He said that after the show’s reveal party, “We went right back to the amusement park, we got right on the roller coaster, and I proceeded to bring her on every roller coaster.”

I think that everyone has that magic moment when they say to themselves... enough is enough and set the wheel in motion to improve themselves. I know for me that moment was seeing a picture of myself. In it I was smiling and looked real big. I had never been so big before and I was having problems with most of my dress pants. I came to the fork in the road... I either had to buy a whole new wardrobe or had to loose weight to where my clothes would fit again. I choose loosing weight.