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Busta’s fitness inspired someone close to him to get in on the routine: his mom, Geraldine Green. The 57-year-old Geraldine, recently lost more than 100 pounds and uses her experience as an example for others fighting obesity.
On November 1, 2002, Green began her diet weighing 328 pounds. She is 5foot-9. She reached her goal weight of 183 pounds August 6,2003, and has kept off the 145 pounds for more than a year now. “It wasn’t easy, but with dedication, lots of prayers and exercise, I made it,” Green tells JET.
One of the events that persuaded her to take on a diet plan occurred in 1997. Green was diagnosed with diabetes. “My husband is a diabetic and I said one of us has to be healthy to take care of the other, so I decided I was going to try to lose weight,” Green relates.
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“It took three months of me praying and thinking day and night about this diet and finally coming to terms with myself, because it’s all in your head.”
Green keeps a strict routine to help keep the pounds off. “I don’t call it a diet, this is my new lifestyle,” she explains. “I’m maintaining by cutting out [carbohydrates], having vegetables and salads and I watch portion size. When I do have fruit, if it’s a big apple, I will have a half. I drink a lot of water. I eat beans and fish. I don’t cook with a lot of grease; I bake, broil, I steam, I rarely fry. No cakes, no bread, no pasta, nothing like that. I go to the gym five days a week and run four miles on the treadmill and lift weights Monday through Friday before I come to work.
Busta Rhymes’ Put Fitness Where Your Eyes Can See was originally published on blackdoctor.org
