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300-plus-pound driver resolves to get fit

In July 2011, Richie Nehrings of Hawthorne, N.J., went shopping for a new pair of jeans. His size 44 pants were too tight, and it was time for the 41-year-old, 372-pound truck driver to move up to the next waist size.

“I couldn’t do it,” he says. “I stood there staring at the huge size 46 jeans and something inside just snapped. It started a whole wave of self-loathing and anger.” He thought, “I can’t fit in my clothes, my blood pressure is out of control, my life is not my life anymore.”

He didn’t buy the jeans. Instead, he decided to change his life.