“I didn’t want to keep living the way I had been. I decided to give it everything I had.”
When Darren McQueen got in a fender bender in 2014, he went into the doctor to make sure nothing was broken. But it wasn’t the X-rays that were alarming—it was the bloodwork.
Growing up, McQueen was on numerous diets—from Weight Watchers to Nutrisystem—as his parents tried to help him lose the pounds. After he left home and became an electrician, he continued on the dieting track and found it was a yo-yo cycle that got him down to 190 pounds at one point, only to gain it all back when he stopped starving himself, he says.
“I’d leave work and get fast food, then come home and have dinner along with four or five beers, and watch TV all night,” he says. “I’d call myself a professional couch potato.”
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