Don’t Weight

By Jon Eckert

Obe­sity is a huge prob­lem in the United States. With fast food, larger meal por­tions, and increas­ing lazi­ness, Amer­i­cans are becom­ing fat­ter and fat­ter. Being a big guy, I under­stand the strug­gle to shave off pounds and keep them off.

It’s far from easy and for some it’s not just quan­tity and qual­ity of food, their metab­o­lism works against them as well.

How­ever, all hope is not lost, espe­cially for a good friend of mine: “Big Jon” Evans. Jon recently started a “healthy liv­ing” cam­paign and so far has been pretty suc­cess­ful. This non-diet (Jon doesn’t want to diet, he wants to com­pletely change his lifestyle) is spe­cial because Jon decided to video doc­u­ment his jour­ney at his web­site www​.don​tweight​.us. It takes a lot of guts to pull off some­thing like this because (as Jon would tell you), the road is often rough. As view­ers, we get to see the ins and outs of trans­form­ing a lifestyle. This project is the ulti­mate account­abil­ity. Each evening, Jon posts a video in which he chron­i­cles his day’s suc­cesses and fail­ures. He is ecsta­tic that he had time and energy to work out twice that day, but admits he ate one too many wings at lunch. He is always excited, don­ning crazy hats and funny pairs of glasses, while he starts off each episode with a healthy “tip of the day”. Once a week, on Weigh-In Wednes­day, Jon gets on the scale and announces his weight loss for that week.

Don’t Weight is an inspi­ra­tional (not to men­tion funny) video blog that keeps you com­ing back. If you haven’t yet checked it out, go to www​.don​tweight​.us, start from the first episode and catch up. You won’t regret it!

**NOTE: Look at Jon in the very first episode, then check him out in his lat­est. There’s a very notice­able difference.

Article, and artwork provided by Jon Eckert of joneckert.com