Ross Gardner, 39, was SEVERELY overweight that he was forced to pay for two plane seats due to his size when he was on a trip to the Bahamas.
Then doctors warned him he had less than 3 years to live, the Florida native decided to stop eating of 15,000 calories of food a day and drinking excessively every night. He changed his daily diet of pizza, burgers and Jack Daniels. The man has made the unbelievable weight-loss transformation and looks completely different.
Ross, said: “I didn’t recognise the person staring back at me in the mirror, I was absolutely huge.”
“I finally realized what I was doing to my body and decided to make serious changes,” he said.
Gardner wants to show others that it’s never too late to turn your life around. He lost nearly 200 pounds in 10 months and had to have six pounds of excess skin removed from his torso. He didn’t need to have skin removed from his arms because of how big his muscles had become. Those are some serious gains.
Gardner: “My belly button was down by my knees and I had to tuck my skin into my shorts to hide it,”
“I didn’t take my shirt off once in six years in front of anyone, I was too ashamed of my bulging belly. I wasn’t a fussy eater, I would eat it all, you name it and I would eat it.”
“It was humiliating.”
Ross worked as a waiter in a big restaurant chain.
“It was exhausting being that heavy, I was on my feet all day so when I got home I wouldn’t move all evening.”
“My mom would come round my house and leave scales in the middle of my kitchen floor, which was her way of telling me I needed to lose weight, but as soon as she left I would toss them to one side.”
“My clothes were a size XXXL and I had to wear slip on shoes as I couldn’t reach my feet to tie my shoelaces.”
As per his Instagram post, most of his weight-loss journey took place in 2005. Gardner has maintained his physique and still looks awesome. Since then, he’s become a chiropractor and enjoys helping people and motivating others to make changes the way he did.
