Losing 100 Pounds - And Keeping Them Off

Preston Longino, 52

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Phoenix, Arizona

Preston Longino was always a big guy. 

In his youth he was also in great shape. The 6’1” athlete was on his high school football, basketball, and track teams, lettering in all three. In college, he worked out hard on the crew team.

After law school, however, there wasn’t much time for exercise. In fact, for the next 25 years,  “I spent at least 10 hours almost every day sitting in front of a computer or sitting in courtrooms or airplanes,” says the complex commercial litigation specialist.

By 2006, the bathroom scale had hit 400 pounds. It was then that “a wonderful client and friend,” Bill Goldring, a businessman, philanthropist, and Pritikin devotee from New Orleans, offered Preston a challenge. 

“Look,” Bill told Preston, “your daughter’s leaving for college soon. There’ll be no one at home you need to take care of. This is the perfect time to go to Pritikin. Go for six months. I’ll pay for part of it. Take your computer, take your cell phone, take your work, and get yourself down there and get healthy.”

Preston, 50 years old but feeling much older, thought, “I’m an idiot if I don’t go.”

So in September 06 he flew to Florida and lived at the Pritikin Longevity Center until March 07, returning home only for Thanksgiving and Christmas with his daughter.

In his hotel room at Pritikin, the staff set up an L-shaped office, “so I was able to keep doing my work while doing the Pritikin Program. It made for a long days, but what a fantastic experience.”

And what results!  Preston left Pritikin more than 100 pounds lighter. And he’s kept the weight off for more than a year now.

“I’m so blessed.  All my blood work, like my cholesterol levels, have always been good,” he says. “And though I had gained a lot of weight, I never became a diabetic. I just needed to work on losing weight and exercising. I couldn’t have found a better place to do that than Pritikin.

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