Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is

episode 350. I am so excited for today's interview we have with us an inspiring man Tony Busy you went on, I saw you on Facebook, you went viral and your story has inspired me.

I said I have to get him on my show, I can't wait for my listeners to learn from Tony. I want to thank you.

Thank you. Yes, I want to thank you the show and I want to dive right into your story because

when I saw that you went through the Fort McMurray wildfires where I'm originally from

Canada I live in the states now but I have a lot of friends in Alberta and I had a lot of

friends that were displaced and lost their homes and it was quite tragic but you

I'm jealous of the United States right now because it looks like you guys are going to get to

Stanley Cup again and to a Canadian that's pretty well heartbreaking but that's another

podcast. That's very sad right now but that's okay. I've had to explain to my husband why and how hockey is the best sport.

Oh yeah, oh yeah by far.

So Tony you had quite an experience going through the

formic Murray wildfires but that is not that's not the topic for today's

show the topic is that you transformed your health and your life because of them.

I'd love for you to take us back and tell us your story. What happened to you that transformed your life? What happened to you that transformed your life?

Oh, well, I mean, for years, years and years I lived a life that was just horrible horrible I guess you could say.

I like to basically tell people that I was in a self-made prison.

I mean I was in a body that I'm not that tall, I'm only in between five foot eight and five foot nine but I was

over and around 600 pounds my top weight was 567 pounds and I was that size for years. Life is horrible at that size. There's nothing designed for people to live day-to-day life. I mean to get into a restaurant, to get into a vehicle, to get into a restaurant to get into a vehicle to get on a bus to buy clothes everything's a struggle.

So leading up to the to the fire it was during I was evacuated twice from that fire and during the second

evacuation because they had flown us back north of Fort McMurray we weren't allowed to go back into the city, but I work in a

mine north of the city and the city itself was still a dangerous area, but north of the city at the time was was

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