So, I always like to do these success stories when you find an amazing story you want to share it with people.

Today we have special guest, Jim Bezot, and welcome, Jim. How you doing?

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. You know, it's interesting. My sister is about, I think, eight years younger than me, and she went to school with Jim.

And he went to the same middle school and high school and college. And so he was also a wrestler. So we have definitely have something in common. He wrestled heavyweight and I think two time national championship, right?

Yes.

Wow. Well done.

Thank you.

So, Jim, tell me a little bit about you. Did you always have sent you a heavyweight? I'm guessing you've been big for a while, right?

You've been overweight or I don't know. You tell me.

Yeah, I was always on the heavy side, you know, always always chunky, I guess. Wrestling was a good outlet for me to get in shape, wrestling and football and sports.

I always kind of gotten better shape when I was participating and that stuff. And then I'd always kind of fall off when the season was over and it was always a struggle.

So you're going along for how many years before you said, you know, I just need, I need to lose this weight.

I was gradually getting higher and higher at one point reached 395.

And I was sitting with one of my friends and I said, hey, five more pounds and I'm in the 400 club. And he said, what are you doing? You're crazy. Stop it.

So that kind of dropped me down to, I think I got down to 360 and stayed there probably for the last five years. I was probably in the 350 360 range.

At that point, did you have any other health problems?

Yeah, I had a lot of health problems. I was hospitalized a couple of times with cellulitis in my legs.

I was kind of, I was always kind of, I was just sickly and you don't realize it at the time.

But you just think it's normal, you know, that you occasionally get ill and I, and I did that and I.

And then you just feel like this is kind of the end, you know, you're gradually get older and then you'll just get sick and die and hopefully you can make it as long as possible.

So it's something you kind of got used to, I mean, I'm especially like being that heavy. I mean, I would imagine you probably got used to it, but I mean, just the weight of like close to 400 pounds on your joints, on your knees and your back, I can't imagine.

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