Jerry Banfield

Hear the story of how today I am finally at a healthy weight after 14 years of ranging between overweight and morbidly obese all while telling myself I was athletic or not as fat as others. You might like hearing what finally worked to break my cycle of trendy diets and huge weight gains followed by a big effort to lose weight that ended it being fatter than ever. The last time in my adult life before recently I was at a healthy weight was when I was 18 years old as a freshman in college. My parents raised me to eat healthy balanced meals and as soon as they opened a Zia juice on my University of South Carolina campus, I did not have a healthy weight again for 14 years. The Oreo elation smoothie I got there on a daily basis helped add 10 pounds to my weight by the end of the year and no matter how much I exercised, I simply ate too many calories to burn it all. When I started drinking alcohol every week as a sophomore, my chances of maintaining a healthy body dropped to nearly zero. Through the next ten