At 19, the speaker weighed 230 lb, had six arrests, and struggled with drugs and alcohol. A cruel comment at a party and a confrontation with his father after his sixth arrest forced him to change. He lost nearly 100 lb, moved to California, and built discipline around goals and values instead of feelings.
When I was 19, I had been arrested 6 times. I was drinking, doing drugs. I was 230 pounds. My life was going nowhere. That was really when I turned my life around, learning how to live my life in accordance with my goals and values rather than my feelings. And that was really what taught me a lot of discipline. I ended up losing almost 100 pounds, moved across the country from Michigan to California. There must have been some wake-up call where you decided to start making that shift. There was 2 moments. I was at a party, like, I'm pretty overweight now, I hope nobody says anything. I hear a guy and he's like, what a shame. I was like, what? You were really pretty, but you're just really fat now. Oh, in that moment, I was like, what he said is true. The second moment was the sixth time that I was arrested. See my dad sitting on the couch. If you keep doing this, I think you're just gonna end up yourself. I felt so terrible that I made someone who loves me so much and only made my life better feel so shitty by who I was being. That terrified me enough to immediately change literally everything.
