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Success Stories

Some Success Stories are simply amazing. All are motivating and testament to the strength of your fellow Veterans.

The challenges are numerous and varied. We have selected the most common challenges to allow you to narrow the list of Veteran stories that may be similar to yours. Use the options below to filter the Success Stories based on common issues.

If you have a success story you’d like to share, contact a member of your local MOVE! team to help you share it with us. We look forward to seeing your story here!

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# Success Stories

Recent Success Stories

Bruce
Jackson

Age: 61

Lost: 25 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, pain
Roland
Little

Age: 75

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, pain
Kenneth
Wright

Age: 51

Lost: 219 lbs

Challenges: bariatric surgery, obesity
Robert
Horowitz

Age: 77

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Thomas
Benson

Age: 55

Lost: 83 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Billie Jo
Blasdel

Age: 47

Lost: 51 lbs

Challenges: heart, obesity
Gary
Schmitz

Age: N/A

Lost: 34 lbs

Challenges: heart, obesity
Wes
Strevel

Age: N/A

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity

2019

Wilber
Abshire

Age: 70

Lost: 120.6 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Leo
Avery

Age: 69

Lost: 30 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Francis
Entrup

Age: N/A

Lost: 120 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Parvati
Govinda

Age: 34

Lost: 42 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Barry
Hepsley

Age: 70

Lost: 78 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Robert
Holsberger

Age: 70

Lost: 63 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, obesity
James
Manthey

Age: 63

Lost: 63 lbs

Challenges: obesity
John
McColloch

Age: 58

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: obesity, pain
Danielle
O'Brien

Age: 37

Lost: 18 lbs

Challenges: obesity
John
Pnaife

Age: 56

Lost: 53 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Jimmy
Smith

Age: 76

Lost: 42 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity

2018

Nathaniel
Anderson

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity
James
Bancroft

Age: N/A

Lost: 56 lbs

Challenges: depression, obesity
Tonyia
Barela

Age: N/A

Lost: 43.6 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Carolyn
Barnes

Age: 61

Lost: 35 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Ivelisse
Bowman

Age: N/A

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: breathing, obesity
John
Bozarth

Age: 72

Lost: 50+ lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, obesity
Leo
Brown

Age: N/A

Lost: 160 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes
Kenneth
Bullard

Age: 71

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity
Marcia
Busby

Age: N/A

Lost: 69span> lbs

Challenges: depression, arthritis, obesity
Ricardo
Colon

Age: 53

Lost: 90 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, obesity, thyroid
Robert
Coughlin

Age: 68

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Jim
Davis

Age: N/A

Lost: 82 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Ralph
DeStefano

Age: N/A

Lost: 24 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Thomas
Dixon

Age: 83

Lost: 75 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, pain
Stanley
Gray

Age: 48

Lost: 38 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Robert
Gregory

Age: N/A

Lost: 40+ lbs

Challenges: injuries, obesity
David
Grupy

Age: 57

Lost: 42 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Rodney
Hamm

Age: N/A

Lost: 52 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity
Donald
Herbel

Age: 70

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Charles
Hooker

Age: 66

Lost: 150 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol, obesity
John
Kelly

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity, hypertension, cholesterol
Bernard
Kopecky

Age: N/A

Lost: 35 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Joe
Love

Age: N/A

Lost: 55 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, heart
Wayne
Maccoux

Age: 67

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Robert
MacDonald

Age: N/A

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Jerry
Mandler

Age: 62

Lost: 42 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, obesity
Carl
McLaughlin

Age: 70

Lost: 33 lbs

Challenges: obesity
David
McSweeney

Age: 64

Lost: 41 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, heart, obesity
Stephen
Moniak

Age: N/A

Lost: 80+ lbs

Challenges: breathing, obesity
Roger
Morris

Age: 52

Lost: 60 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Lary
Nold

Age: N/A

Lost: 91 lbs

Challenges: obesity, pain
Amber
Parker

Age: 36

Lost: 94 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Anika
Quinn

Age: N/A

Lost: 29 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Madeline
Richard

Age: N/A

Lost: 57 lbs

Challenges: pain
Francis
Robertson

Age: 69

Lost: 85 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Bryan
Stroup

Age: N/A

Lost: 75 lbs

Challenges: obesity, hypertension, cholesterol
Joseph
Traumer

Age: N/A

Lost: 182 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, hypertension, obesity
Charles
Twine

Age: N/A

Lost: 30 lbs

Challenges: joint-replacement, pain, obesity
David
Wilson

Age: 70

Lost: 105 lbs

Challenges: obesity, pain
Benjamin
Wunsch

Age: 68

Lost: 61 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, heart, obesity

2017

Lance
Brown

Age: N/A

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Joseph
Bray

Age: N/A

Lost: 150 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, thyroid
Thomas
Burnham

Age: N/A

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity
Caryn
Cash

Age: N/A

Lost: 45+ lbs

Challenges: obesity
Christopher
Froelich

Age: N/A

Lost: 115 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Ralph
Gochenour

Age: 70

Lost: 148 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Pat
Groce

Age: N/A

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Leonard
Hester

Age: N/A

Lost: 35 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Walter
Hood

Age: 64

Lost: 181 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Donald
Johnson

Age: N/A

Lost: 67 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, depression, obesity
James
Johnson

Age: N/A

Lost: 350 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, depression, obesity
Terrill
Leff

Age: N/A

Lost: 31 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Tom
McLaughlin

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A7%

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes, obesity
Darryl
Middleton

Age: N/A

Lost: 53 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, injuries, obesity
Vincent
Murphy

Age: N/A

Lost: 58 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Jim
Nys

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Mark
Proffitt

Age: N/A

Lost: 100 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Dale
Pruitt

Age: N/A

Lost: 54 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Joe
Reagan

Age: N/A

Lost: 60 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, obesity
Rene
Rendon

Age: N/A

Lost: 67 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
John
Spaans

Age: N/A

Lost: 80 lbs

Challenges: obesity
James
Tallman

Age: N/A

Lost: 43 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Donald
Walton

Age: N/A

Lost: 55 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Floyd
Whitfield

Age: N/A

Lost: 54 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, obesity
Joseph
Worley

Age: N/A

Lost: 40+ lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, medications
Michelle
Yost

Age: N/A

Lost: 38.6 lbs

Challenges: obesity, cholesterol

2016

Robert
Burbridge

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol, pain
Lee
Cashin

Age: N/A

Lost: 32 lbs

Challenges: obesity
John
Coffman

Age: N/A

Lost: 63 lbs

Challenges: arthritus, obesity
John
Crago

Age: N/A

Lost: 142 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol
Terry
Cranford

Age: N/A

Lost: 60 lbs

Challenges: obesity, heart
Larry
Farrell

Age: 69

Lost: 127 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, diabetes
Michaeal
Favreau

Age: N/A

Lost: 87 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, bariatric surgery
Felix-Fitzpatrick

Age: N/A

Lost: 115 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, blood pressure
Nathaniel
Friedman

Age: N/A

Lost: 26 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Stephen
Greig

Age: N/A

Lost: 36 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, blood pressure
Gilbert
Hall

Age: 66

Lost: 44 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Robert
Hart

Age: N/A

Lost: 137 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Dallas
Hembree

Age: N/A

Lost: 63 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes
John
Hutchison

Age: N/A

Lost: 64 lbs

Challenges: obesity, cholesterol, diabetes
Mark
Lang

Age: N/A

Lost: 103 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Ed
McPherson

Age: N/A

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: obesity, cholesterol, blood pressure
Robert
Puleo

Age: N/A

Lost: 46 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, blood pressure
Jodi
Rich

Age: N/A

Lost: 278 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, bariatric surgery, obesity
Raymond
Rys

Age: N/A

Lost: 100 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
George
Sarkesian

Age: N/A

Lost: 41 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, diabetes
Hilry
Smith

Age: N/A

Lost: 60 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, cholesterol

2015

Bill
Creager

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol
Brenda
Daniels

Age: N/A

Lost: 48 lbs

Challenges: heart
Ronald
Despain

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A lbs

Challenges: diabetes
David
Flory

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A lbs

Challenges: obesity
Lora
Gervais

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: arthritis, cholesterol, blood pressure, plantar fasciitis
Roy
Gochenour

Age: N/A

Lost: 37 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, arthritis
JC
Grover

Age: N/A

Lost: 125 lbs

Challenges: obesity, arthritis
Peter
Haislip

Age: N/A

Lost: 115 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Lori
Haram

Age: N/A

Lost: 44 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol
Tina
Hayes

Age: N/A

Lost: 129 lbs

Challenges: obesity, bariatric surgery, blood pressure, cholesterol
James
Heather

Age: N/A

Lost: 37 lbs

Challenges: pain, PTSD, heart, diabetes
Michael
Hollemon

Age: N/A

Lost: 107 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Steve
Kraslen

Age: N/A

Lost: 10 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol
Clyde
Nicholson

Age: 73

Lost: 135 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Michael
Ofstein

Age: N/A

Lost: 125 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Diana
Owens

Age: N/A

Lost: 188 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, blood pressure
Warren
Pennington

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, arthritis
Jerry
Phelps

Age: N/A

Lost: 68 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Weldon
Sadler

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: diabetes
Kathleen
Sasfy

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity, arthritis, pain
John
Scalph

Age: N/A

Lost: 169 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Frank
Sinclair

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Larry
Summers

Age: N/A

Lost: 56 lbs

Challenges: obesity, alcohol
Monty
Sutton

Age: N/A

Lost: 30 lbs

Challenges: obesity
William
Wade

Age: N/A

Lost: 100 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure
Charles
Whitlock

Age: N/A

Lost: 93 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Terry
Woodard

Age: N/A

Lost: 58 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, blood pressure

2014

LaVerne
Ayers

Age: N/A

Lost: 35 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Richard
Brown

Age: N/A

Lost: 80 lbs

Challenges: obesity, heart, blood pressure
William
Carpenter

Age: N/A

Lost: 28 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Murray
Darby

Age: N/A

Lost: 55 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol, blood pressure
Phillip
Durno

Age: N/A

Lost: 52 lbs

Challenges: heart, cancer, diabetes, cholesterol, breathing
Darryle
Endfinger

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes
Michael
Gilbert

Age: N/A

Lost: 90 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol, arthritis
Lana
King

Age: N/A

Lost: 208 lbs

Challenges: medications
John
Kinjerski

Age: N/A

Lost: 75 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, neuropathy
Alan
Krayniak

Age: N/A

Lost: 132 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, medications
Dorothy
Latson

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Dennis
Meehan

Age: N/A

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol
Macey
Paynter

Age: N/A

Lost: 53 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Miles
Pearson

Age: N/A

Lost: 94 lbs

Challenges: breathing, obesity
David
Sias

Age: N/A

Lost: 63 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, asthma
John
Skinner

Age: N/A

Lost: 72 lbs

Challenges: obesity, heart
Fernie
Velez

Age: N/A

Lost: 48 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Dennis
Vernazzaro

Age: N/A

Lost: 101 lbs

Challenges: obesity

2013

Tony
Adams

Age: N/A

Lost: 40+ lbs

Challenges: obesity, pain, diabetes
John
Bacher

Age: N/A

Lost: 213 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes, sleep problems, arthritis
Lewis
Benko

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity, medications
Danny
Brewster

Age: N/A

Lost: 100+ lbs

Challenges: diabetes, obesity
Al
Bruton

Age: N/A

Lost: 20 lbs

Challenges: cholesterol
Don and Nancy
Burke

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 / 75 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, cholesterol, asthma
Michael
Campbell

Age: N/A

Lost: 62 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol
John
Chiccino

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Eileen
Dever

Age: N/A

Lost: 58 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Michael
Fox

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Arthur
Hannon

Age: N/A

Lost: 64 lbs

Challenges: obesity, liver
Bradley
Harris

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Don
Hedlund

Age: N/A

Lost: 173 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, diabetes
Jim
Iseman

Age: N/A

Lost: 49 lbs

Challenges: heart, diabetes, blood pressure, surgery
Stewart
Krevolin

Age: N/A

Lost: 100+ lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Derek
Longo

Age: N/A

Lost: 65 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Anthony
McArter

Age: N/A

Lost: 20+ lbs

Challenges: obesity, pain, medications
Roger
McGill

Age: N/A

Lost: 46 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure
Jesse
McMurtry

Age: N/A

Lost: 45 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Ed
Mikulski

Age: N/A

Lost: 40 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Olivia
Movsky

Age: N/A

Lost: 103.8 lbs

Challenges: obesity, thyroid
Joseph
Nepi

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: heart, diabetes, achilles
Eric
Ollenborger

Age: 48

Lost: 50+ lbs

Challenges: obesity
Walter
Pietruk

Age: N/A

Lost: 80+ lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Mike
Rovin

Age: N/A

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
T.J.
Schaff

Age: N/A

Lost: 110 lbs

Challenges: injuries, osteoarthritis, diabetes, cholesterol
Robert
Schrock

Age: N/A

Lost: 100 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Roger
Scott

Age: N/A

Lost: 33 lbs

Challenges: obesity
George
Sims

Age: N/A

Lost: 53 lbs

Challenges: diabetes, hyperlipidemia
John
Thomas

Age: N/A

Lost: 81 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Michael
Tobin

Age: N/A

Lost: 10%

Challenges: pain, paralyzed diaphragm
Clifford
Tubbs

Age: N/A

Lost: 59 lbs

Challenges: obesity, surgery
The
Tunisons

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A lbs

Challenges: obesity, mental health
John
Wagner

Age: N/A

Lost: 100 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
Ronald
Williams

Age: 67

Lost: 101 lbs

Challenges: heart, arthritis, diabetes, artificial knee
Kalo
Willis

Age: N/A

Lost: 68 lbs

Challenges: obesity, heart, diabetes

2012

Rodney
Allen

Age: N/A

Lost: 78 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Bill
Ashworth

Age: N/A

Lost: 70 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
William
Benedict

Age: N/A

Lost: 108 lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes
Robert
Black

Age: N/A

Lost: 107 lbs

Challenges: heart, diabetes
Henry
Charles

Age: N/A

Lost: 74 lbs

Challenges: obesity, diabetes
William
Collins

Age: N/A

Lost: 47 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Donald
Contois

Age: N/A

Lost: 29 lbs

Challenges: diabetes
Richard
Davidson

Age: N/A

Lost: 42 lbs

Challenges: obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol
Tony
DeNoi

Age: N/A

Lost: 101 lbs

Challenges: obesity, pain
Wm. (Bubba)
Grothe

Age: 67

Lost: 135 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Robert
Henderson

Age: N/A

Lost: N/A lbs

Challenges: blood pressure, medications, heart
Monty
Hunter

Age: 64

Lost: 92 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Almer
Jackson

Age: N/A

Lost: 40+ lbs

Challenges: obesity, depression, sleep problems, medications
Ken
Jordan

Age: N/A

Lost: 35 lbs

Challenges: obesity
Edwin
Lopez

Age: N/A

Lost: 66 lbs

Challenges: obesity, depression, pain
Rae
McAvoy

Age: N/A

Lost: 96 lbs

Challenges: obesity, bariatric surgery
Lourene
Meyer

Age: 41

Lost: 100 lbs

Challenges: PTSD, depression
David
Miller

Age: N/A

Lost: 50 lbs

Challenges: obesity, cholesterol, sleep problems, arthritis
Chris
Schriedel

Age: N/A

Lost: 46 lbs

Challenges: heart, obesity, arthritis
Andrew
Seed

Age: N/A

Lost: 108 lbs

Challenges: obesity, breathing, medications
Stephen
Spitzberg

Age: N/A

Lost: 70+ lbs

Challenges: obesity
Gary
Voelker

Age: N/A

Lost: 70+ lbs

Challenges: obesity
Billy
Williams

Age: N/A

Lost: 90 lbs

Challenges: obesity