Doug Lerner is an American who has lived in Tokyo for a very long time. He came to Japan to work on a computer graphics project for Expo '85 in Tsukuba, was supposed to stay for one year, and never moved back to the U.S. He hates packing.

He was obese for most of his adult life, which eventually led to health-threatening issues, including extremely high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and had a heart attack in 2012. While in the hospital he started studying healthy eating alternatives. With Whole Food Plant Based eating, some really basic and vital guidelines for lazy people who want to keep everything simple and sustainable, he finally got his weight and health under control. He started at 284 lb, and lost over 140 lb - more than half of his original weight. His BMI is down to 21.3. His HbA1c blood sugar went down from from a dangerously high 11.8 to a normal 5.1 and he has been off all blood sugar meds for three years now. His cholesterol is heart-attack-proof low.

You can read his personal blog at https://lerner.net. Click on Diet and Health (https://lerner.net/category/diet-and-health/) to see posts about his diet journey, details about what he eats, what he cooks (not much), what kinds of exercise he does (not much), and see all his test numbers over time. Some links of particular interest are: https://lerner.net/milestone-more-than-half-of-me-gone/ and https://lerner.net/oh-boy-doug-food-again/. At the blog site you can also read about Doug's volunteer days at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, see his dog, Pao, and read about Japan and other topics of interest.

Doug isn't selling anything, but maybe someday he'll write "The Fat, Lazy, Middle-Aged Person's Guide to Weight Loss." In the meantime, you can subscribe to his blog, or reach out to him via email, Twitter (@douglerner) or FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/douglerner/.

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