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Michael Searls vividly recalls the time he knew his weight had gotten out of hand. He was in the store buying pants—he knew he’d put on a few pounds, and figured he was now too big for his usual 32 or 34 waist size. After he tried sliding on a pair of 38’s, however, he

Growing up, Brady Golden had always been a big kid—”chubby,” as he puts it. Weight gain happened steadily for most of his life: By the fourth grade, he weighed 180 pounds, and by high school, he was tipping the scale at 350. “I just ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and I barely moved

At his heaviest, Matthew Izzo couldn’t bring himself to step onto the scale. His best guess is that he probably weighed around 250 pounds. What he knows for certain: He didn’t feel good about himself, though he wasn’t fully aware of it at the time. “Looking back, it’s a night and day difference, but part

Like many guys, Ryan Bamford let himself go a bit after he and his wife had their first kid. “Over the span of a year or two, I creeped up to a max of 213 pounds,” he says. That didn’t make him terribly obese, but on his 5’7″ frame, he was still noticeably out of

Christopher Carman used to love gaming. When he was in his twenties, he’d come home from work, crack open a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew, and play World of Warcraft for hours at a time. Rather than cook his own meals, he’d just order in or pick up some fast food. “If I could’ve burned