AT 410lbs, David Roden realised enough was enough and has now lost around 200lbs - nearly half his body weight. By the time David, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was 15 years old, he weighed 300Ibs and had super high blood pressure. He told Truly: “I was 18 years old, weighed over 400Ibs and just fluctuated over the next few years till I was 22 which is when I really made the shift to take more control of the actions I was doing in my life." With an addiction to diet soda, David drank 15 to 20 cans a day and would drink privately rather than publicly. David knew he had to cut his weight in half and had a vision of looking 200Ibs lighter. After hitting 50Ibs down, everything changed and he felt in control to make it work. David continued: “I remember looking at myself in the mirror, and broke down crying. I changed not just physically but mentally and spiritually on how I treated myself and others around me. After that it was just a massive shift."
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00:00I was addicted to diet soda. I was drinking 15 to 20 a day and I weighed over 400 pounds
00:05If I wanted more pop I got more pop. I wanted more video games. I got more video games. I
00:11Knew what I was doing to myself was truly killing me
00:18Losing 200 pounds seems so astronomically impossible. I was like, you know what I'm doing this right now
00:23I remember stepping on the scale down 50 pounds looking at myself in the mirror and being like
00:30You can do this
00:36So we are back at my old high school and this is the football stadium where I spent a lot of time
00:43Screaming in the stands. I was too big to even play football
00:48By the time I was 18 a senior in high school, I weighed over 410 pounds. I
00:53I
00:55Mean I I had a lot of friends in high school
00:58I was the funny fat kid that would jump on people and whip my boobs at people. I was just a goofball
01:04I put on a face to make it look like I had my life together, even though it wasn't I
01:10Was bigger than everybody else. I was given sunshine and rainbows of an infinite
01:16No checks to life. If I wanted more pizza, I got more pizza if I wanted more pop. I got more pop
01:22I wanted more video games. I got more video games and that was just the the reality
01:27I was pre-diabetic had super high blood pressure. Not even my best friend Phil from high school knew
01:33How dark my situation was and how I looked at myself
01:38There were a lot of jabs at David
01:41About his weight, but he did he always seemed to kind of brush them off and you know, I admired that I
01:46Would eat almost in Costco sized bag of Reese's almost every day like a 24-pack every single day
01:53It typical Friday night would involve going to Buffalo Wild Wings
01:57He would have 24 wings and a platter of fries and then by 9 o'clock, you know
02:03He'd be wanting to go to Taco Bell or Applebee's and then have a whole nother meal
02:08It would be common for him to put down 8 to 12 sodas in
02:13An evening. Nice man. Yeah, Diet Coke was his drug of choice the amount that he put down per day was
02:21Sickening. I was addicted to diet soda. I was drinking 15 to 20 a day
02:26It's crazy to think that like back when I was in high school when I'm playing video games
02:30I'm out here just each video game when I'm done. I'd
02:35crank out a 12 pack of Diet Coke in a matter of three hours and like that was
02:40That was a normal thing for me to do I'd hide the Diet Coke cans so my parents didn't know how many I was drinking
02:48When you're drinking this amount of Diet Coke all the
02:51Synthetic sugars just it makes you feel hungry and it just makes you feel like crap
02:55There's a little Reese's peanut butter cup for you. I still do eat them on occasion
03:00I'm not gonna say I don't but I don't eat them at the same level as I used to I would eat 30 to 40
03:05The biggest thing for me was the idea of looking at losing 200 pounds seems so
03:10Astronomically impossible, so I'd never really tried and I never really looked at myself of just saying hey, you got to change who you are
03:19So when I was 22, I was in my junior year college and I
03:23Read a book called the compound effect by Darren Hardy. I don't I just changed the way I saw myself that book
03:29It's like how do you lose 200 pounds?
03:30You lose two pounds a week for a hundred weeks and you lose 200 pounds. I was like I could do that
03:38And by the time I hit about 50 pounds down when I stepped on the scale it was like the
03:43click and I was like, I'm changing everything like the
03:47holy crap, this is real and
03:49I've never looked back. I go to the gym five to seven days a week
03:54400 pound David would be dreading the gym right now because it's gonna be painful. It's gonna be fun. I'm gonna be sweaty
04:00But today I'm looking forward to it. Why because I choose to be
04:05Whoa
04:06We're doing a full body. We're gonna do a little bit of rowing some sprints. We're gonna do some deadlifts. I
04:15Was 410 pounds made the decision to really live an accountable life at 22 lost about 150 pounds
04:24So for me the skin removal surgery was like and I respect some people that they don't want to do it
04:30Like for me, it felt like a chapter ending
04:35Decision like obese David is done. If you look at some of the before pictures
04:39I just had really big droopy boobs and then this big flop stomach and
04:45Yeah, you just know when you're 400 pounds and you have these big old boobs
04:49There's there's no amount of weight loss that's gonna get that off. That's just there's surgery. It's the only option
04:55Droopy skin was just holding back to who I used to be. It's like I'm not him anymore
05:01I
05:02What inspired me to do the bodybuilding show? I just want to do something different. I wanted to push myself. I
05:10Did a bodybuilding show
05:11400 pound David couldn't even fathom losing 15 pounds and I did a bodybuilding show that it was so for me
05:17It was the new challenge. Come on
05:19Drive feet. We live in a very unique time where
05:24people are
05:26Reconnecting body positivity and obesity. I
05:29Understand we all need to be love our bodies
05:32But loving our bodies also means respecting our bodies and the food you eat if you truly love yourself
05:39You will do things that are treating your body with the respect it deserves
05:44When you push your limit what you think you can do and you push beyond failure
05:48What you think is failure and you put out that 315 you've never done before
05:53the brain just goes
05:55I'm a champion. I can do anything. So someone who's obese
05:59Watching this right now who wants to lose the weight. The number one thing to me is don't over complicate. I ain't gonna do it
06:06These things aren't
06:08Astronomically big decision. It's about committing just doing the small actions every day
06:14Let's go
06:25You