New York Times reporter Brian Stelter admits that couldn't do it alone: Losing weight would require a "cheering section." So Stelter recruited one, using Twitter to get the word out and keep the world posted. The public humiliation wasn't easy, Stelter reports in this piece in the Times, and his Tweeting wasn't always 100 percent truthful, but it did work: Stelter says he's down from 270 pounds to less than 200 pounds, and still going.
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