The weight gain was, you know, it's obviously, it was built up over the years. And certainly in the last couple years before getting on the program, the kind of lifestyle that I was leading-you know, I played hockey, but you know, hockey was rec hockey, and it wasn't like it was, you know, ongoing, vigorous exercise. You know, probably the biggest thing was, aside from lack of exercise, would've been the diet that I was on. I mean, you'd go from hospital to hospital on business, and inevitably I'd stop off at the Burger King or the McDonald's, and you'd have your Bacon Double Cheeseburger, with fries and a milkshake, and eat it in the car as you're driving between sites. And then you get home, and you're feeling you're kind of in a rush, and do some stuff with my daughter, and just make spaghetti or peanut butter sandwiches. All high carb, high fat kind of stuff, you know. Pretty low on the vegetables, pretty low on the fruits, and that kind of stuff. So certainly not a great diet.

My cholesterol was well up there, my triglycerides were well up there. You know, and there was a history of heart disease in my family. So I probably was on a really bad path, and you know, it's radically changed now, and it didn't actually take, well I say, a tremendous amount of effort to make that difference.

If I were to realize how easy it was to lose the weight that I had, and what I've now been able to do, and what it's allowed me to do, you know, why didn't I start this, you know, years ago, as compared to just in the last couple?