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so before I had something to track me I constantly struggled weight lost my entire life so I've always been like a heavy kid like I've tried losing weight I'd cut stuff I'd go exercise but I'd always stop and I'd always put it back on and sometimes I put on more weight than when I started so the series for Apple watch has been out for about a week now while there's been a ton of heat on the iPhone I think the general consensus is that the watch has been a hit we've seen it all over Apple keynotes those stories on how the watch saved a life how it impacted someone I thought it'd be cool to actually find someone like that me Gregory who lost 100 pounds using the Apple watch my starting weight was 280 I'm down to 175 now took about two years to get there but I've maintained it you know ballooning a little here and there but maintaining 175 and still looking to get better though now for me the biggest benefit of the Apple watch has always been that it encourages you to be active because chances are you are more than likely less active than you think I always thought I moved around a lot or more than the average person I think a lot of people like to overestimate how much they're actually moving around so for me when I got home and I saw that I only took like 2,000 steps I was going oh man and then you see that the calorie rings only a hundred filled and you have to burn 600 calories it's a little disorienting that first I'd start going on walks too short little walks 15-minute walks on my breaks and that would help fill the gap eventually I just want to lose more and start going more so I'd start walking home from work and would about be like an hour walk and you get like 10,000 15,000 steps and after a while I just got tired of walking all the time and took up a lot of time so I just started running and I picked it up from there started going half mile mile two mile and then eventually 5k so when I saw Gregory story it really motivated me I've been up the fitness game a little bit more than I would have liked to admit lately so to see him go from a mile to two miles to a 5k oz like jeez he is completely out doing that his step my game up I sent the tweet out I sent a tweet sharing the video that I actually had a hard time making telling people about how I lost the weight so I did want to share it with my audience and let them know where I came from and how how heavy I was how much I progressed and it was important to me so at most I was expecting a like all of a sudden sitting at work and all of a sudden I see a message and I'm like oh shoot my heart rates pumping up I can I couldn't handle it I can't believe I let myself get that heavy I barely recognize myself when I look at older photos and sometimes people will say in my life that you weren't that heavy and then I'll remind them and I'll show him a photo and they go wow that was you I have a friend from college Evan he lives in Massachusetts and we haven't seen each other for a while and you know we're sitting there and it's like the elephant in the room no one brings it up and then we're sitting on a drive back home one day and he's goes man you lost a lot of weight huh if I could do it at 280 I think a lot of people can do it I'd say find something that works for you if it's an Apple watch that can help you track your movement or if it's something like MyFitnessPal that can track your calories just try something start doing it every day and keep at it so with that I thought it'd be awesome to bring Gregory out to hang out and run with them see what he does on a day-to-day because right now my cardio and endurance I'm gonna admit is trash so Gregory is gonna kick my butt all right so brought the kickoff this run with Greg I'm a little worried that it's gonna kick my butt but we'll see what happens I'm gonna try and run two miles with them let's see how it goes Mansa were like six seconds in his pace though like I knew was gonna kick my butt but going man so I'm bringing this pace down right now we're about a little under half a mile I'm breathing need of tea and he's just chugging through it like a champ man I got all the credit in the world great like I knew I was out of shape but holy crab is just like a giant slap in the face like dude you got a run more Joshy murdered me like destroyed me like I just go home after this yo Sal was expecting like this calm peaceful jog you know he's downplaying it the whole time it's no big deal I just kind of I run for fun my pace isn't that fast I say go it's not that fast dude there's like Blair Witch footage of me trying to catch up to you and you just like knee high running uphill just booking it so damnit I'm sweating so much from Gregory this mic won't stay on so you do that like if I didn't screw it up you would have been going the entire yeah you stopped a couple of times stop with you and walk I never stop do my whole 5k let's go straight through he was telling me how it slows them down and makes him feel it's actually harder when you slow down just keep going get over with oh man I feel so bad like I need to get my stuff together either way though man like already from the get-go a hundred pounds is like a it's an amazing accomplishment so you should be so proud for that but the endurance you built up kind of blew my mind thank you so everybody out there mad props smash the like button for Gregor he also does some really awesome tech videos on top of just being this like boss human being so check them out I need to get my stuff together because good god am I out of shape later I did by Jimmy I think everyone does uh hey guys this is do it again do it again yeah hey guys hey guys hey guys a lot finer pounds