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K-State fan credits coach Bill Snyder for 40-pound weight loss

A Kansas State football fan said Bill Snyder’s "16 goals for success," tenets the 75-year-old coach uses to guide his on-field achievements, helped him lose 40 pounds.

Patrick Hines, a 25-year-old Kansas State grad, posted a YouTube video chronicling his weight loss from 216 pounds to 176 pounds. In the video, Hines claims that Snyder’s words of wisdom helped motivate him.

“I saw a poster in my room with the K-State 16 goals on it,” Hines said in the video. “An idea popped into my head that I could apply these 16 goals as motivation to keep working out and improving my health. I was going to have the commitment and discipline to doing the right thing on a consistent basis. The first month having that mentality, I lost 10 pounds.”

Snyder’s 16 goals are: commitment, unselfishness, unity, improve, be tough, self-discipline, great effort, enthusiasm, eliminate mistakes, never give up, don’t accept losing, no self limitations, expect to win, consistency, leadership and responsibility.

Each person in the Kansas State program knows the goals and there’s even a page on the Kansas State athletics website dedicated to breaking them down with a video on each goal.

Hines told The Wichita Eagle via email that once he hit 176, he started lifting weights and vowed to get into the best shape of his life. He said the goal “no limitations” helped him the most.

“It made me realize that I can avoid complacency if I expect more out of myself every day,” Hines wrote to the paper.

We all knew Snyder was a wizard on the football field, but now he’s a self-help guru as well. Perhaps when he retires — if he ever retires — he should put his efforts into self-help books.

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