 You know, he spoke the words, but I gave those words power in my life. And I didn't realize what that did to me, but it literally created a snowball effect to where I hated who I was physically. I thought I was a good person, but physically I hated who I was. And every day I talked about, you know, a black cloud because at that moment, like I let my weight keep going and going and going to where eventually, you know, I was 283 pounds on a 5'4 frame.