Travel Health and Fitness - CNN: "With family life as goal, man drops 177 pounds"

This guy's transformation is totally WOW:

With family life as goal, man drops 177 pounds

(CNN) -- At his heaviest, Brent Schmitt weighed 419 pounds. Even at 6 feet 3 inches tall, that was very overweight and he had high blood pressure.

Many people in his family -- aunts, uncles and grandparents --suffered from diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease and high blood pressure.

The iReporter's life-changing moment came during an intense family discussion back in 2009 about his relatives' ailments.

It finally clicked for him: It was time for him to take a different path.

"If I didn't do something about my health, then I was concerned I'd never live long enough to get married and have children or be healthy enough to spend quality time with my future family," the Evansville, Indiana, man said...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/01/lose.weight.safely.ireporter/

Before:

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After:

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