John Goodman on Getting Sober and Reaching 400 Pounds

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJohn Goodman told The New Yorker he was almost four hundred pounds, and that he was eating alcoholically after he stopped drinking in two thousand seven, E! News reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, point one. He quit drinking. The habit looked at that and said, fine, I'll take the fridge.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. He says he'd lose sixty pounds in a summer, sometimes seventy or eighty, and then gain every pound back. Think about that.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEvery summer, a full person leaves. Every fall, the same person walks right back in. And nobody in charge asks where the person goes.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. He says the stomach procedure left him anemic, with less fat under his skin, and now he's cold all the time.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the cure for being too big is being freezing. Really? That's the offer? Pick your problem, and it comes with a draft.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHere's what gets me. He said if he worried about losing his happy-guy persona, it was a secondary thought, because he was saving his life.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGood. That's the right order. A man should get to be alive before he gets to be jolly. Most of us never even rank them.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo here's my verdict, folks. Sixty pounds gone every summer, and every fall it comes back like a roommate with a key.