The Fat Guy Forum

Kevin Ruiz is a child abuse prosecutor with a focus on combating child trafficking and fatalities, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, and a nutrition coach who knows firsthand the challenges of balancing a demanding career and family life with health goals. After losing 132 pounds, Kevin became certified in strength and conditioning, nutrition, and more, and now helps busy professio...

Hugo Mendoza joins me on this week's new forum to discuss his 200lb weight loss but more importantly what came next. Our journeys are never linear and our priorities can change. How do you manage your health and navigate the twists and turns of life? We talk about it! How do you work on getting your focus back when you have strayed from the course you once felt was locked in? We get into that too!...

Tim Kaufman, aka FatManRants, joins me to dive deep into the dominoes that needed to fall for him to make true lasting change in his life, and how it lead him to sharing his journey and perspectives to help others. As he says during our conversation, this is not a story about weight loss, it is one about reclaiming his health, his mobility and his drive. We talk about his challenges living with El...

Pete Brennan had accepted and embraced that he would just be that big guy forever, the center of attention in any room at almost 650 pounds. He had accepted that he was not long for this world as fact. Oh man can I relate! And I am not making light of it at all. Like many of us though, Pete realized that there were people in his life that needed him around, so he started fighting. He started looki...

This week we have something a bit different. Jonathan Shane (aka the Keto Road) and I put together a webinar about finding healthy success during the holiday season, and this week I am sharing the audio replay of it with you!! I hope you will give it a listen, it is chock full of helpful holiday season advice that applies to every way of eating! If you enjoyed the webinar and are looking to get yo...

The Fall Into Progress Group Coaching Program is starting October 7th!!! Jonathan Shane and I have developed a 12 week ketogenic lifestyle course that will not only set you up for success on your journey but help you navigate the holiday season with two coaches and a private support & accountability community. The 12 weeks cover keto nutrition with a personalized plan including macros, exercis...

Anthony Attanasio joins me on this week's new episode to talk about his life at 580 pounds, battling cellulitis, and his near death experience with lymphedema removal surgery. Anthony went from talking a lot about reclaiming his health and finally took action to do the things he needed. We talk through exploring weight loss surgery and finding success through building new habits and the use of Weg...

Mike's damaged relationship with food began as a child when he learned adults around him found his capacity to eat entertaining. If you just jump ahead you learn he was eventually 693 pounds and barely mobile, but his story is about so much more. It is about a lifetime of dieting and using food as comfort as he battled mental illness and physical trauma while navigating a health care system determ...

John Santoro made a promise to himself about his health and weight, and he kept it! But as always, the road to get there was not smooth sailing and we get into his journey in this week's new episode. From life at 5'4" and 365 pounds to success through his decision to have gastric sleeve surgery, we get into it all!  Connect with John on IG at @johnjamessantoro! https://www.instagram.com/johnjamess...

This week's discussion is about more than weight loss success and the journey to it. Junior joins me to talk about his successes and the subsequent challenges that followed. What happens when that success starts to slip away? We have a brutally honest talk about his experience achieving success, regaining weight, and the trepidation to start again. The answers aren't as simple as they might seem w...

Just a very quick update on the unintended break the show took the past two weeks! We will be back next week with an all new episode. PS. There's an announcement too! The Fall Into Progress Group Coaching Program is here! Jonathan Shane and I have developed a 12 week ketogenic lifestyle course that will not only set you up for success on your journey but help you navigate the holiday season with t...

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The Forum has hit its 5th Anniversary and this is part 1 of the celebration. In this very special solo episode I share the ten lessons I have learned during the show's run. What are the things I have noticed as commonalities or important points to consider when interviewing over 250 men? Well you have to listen to find out, but I think it is worth it! I share some lessons crucial to every person's...

Henry Gonzalez joins me on this week's new episode to talk about how he expected death every day, at 565 pounds and living a life where he was literally dodging bullets. It was all he knew, and it took finding the strength inside to say enough is enough for him to find the fight to live. Life itself had to become his why and we talk about how he faced his fears and made the changes he needed to ma...

Jim Kraham was once close to 450 pounds and finding health challenges growing. He knew he needed to make change and got his journey started with his eyes open to the challenges of building consistent action, and the benefits of finding accountability and community along the way! He's currently down 170 pounds and feels he has truly built the lifestyle he needs to crush his goals. We talk about wha...

Almost 4 years ago Jose Diaz first appeared on the Fat Guy Forum! He was over 550 pounds and feeling focused on starting his journey to reclaim his health. As often happens in life though, things did not go as planned and it would be a few years before he took action. He reached out and asked if he could come back on to update us all on his journey's progress and I was honored! It's not easy to sa...

Jason Henry joins me on this week's new Fat Guy Forum to talk about how his brother suggesting he give DDPY a shot got his journey to lose over 200lbs and transforming his life started. From 435 pounds and breaking furniture to finding a passion for helping others and bodybuilding, he shares the lessons he needed to learn and how they have impacted so much more than just his waistline. His story i...

Ryan Fisette joins me on this week's new episode to discuss how his food addiction and drinking brought him to 550 pounds. We get into his experience with weight loss surgery in Mexico and how he admittedly did not handle his aftercare properly and it led to almost 5 months of being unable to eat at all! His journey brought him to some very dark places but didn't end there. Listen now to hear how...

Jordan aka JKeepsMoving joins me on this week's new episode to talk about what it took to get him moving at over 450 pounds and keep him going as he crushes goals now down 180 pounds in under a year. Always a big kid and a bigger adult, like many of us, the 2020 pandemic had a distinct impact on his health and his perspective on it but it was the following years that brought him to a place where h...

Manny Ortiz joins me on this week's all new Forum to talk about how his experiences with trauma, PTSD and opiate abuse created a perfect storm with a food addiction that brought him to 556 pounds, merely existing instead of living. His life was small and filled with darkness until he realized that he needed to not only fight to find the light, but use the tools and resources outside of himself to...

Nate Goncalves has always lived his life with hyper-focus in all of his endeavors. He did not grow up overweight but after returning from serving our country he dealt with physical injuries and mental health challenges that brought addiction to pain killers into his life. In this week's new Forum he shares how conquering that addiction brought new challenges including seeing his weight balloon to...

Max Radovanic joins me on this week's all new Forum to talk about how struggles with his mental health and the medications prescribed to help him lead to his developing a disordered relationship with his appetite and food. Max was at an average weight at age 12 and by 18 he was 430 pounds. But it wasn't just about food, Max was also drinking and smoking heavily at that time. We talk about how one...

On this week's new episode we find out how a health scare in 2022 lead Johnny Muresan to realize he needed to define a new standard for his life. At 497 he knew the road ahead would not be short or easy but he knew he was ready to start running towards the life he wanted for himself and his family. Johnny is down over 115 pounds now and is training for a marathon! His story is one of persistence,...

Dane Lyon's journey is best described as a rollercoaster, and it's not just because of the significance an actual rollercoaster plays in it! Dane was almost 600 pounds and currently down over 311 pounds, and that path has not been a straight line. In this new episode we talk about the impact of alcohol, bullying and even travel had on his decision to reclaim his health. We even get into his discov...

This week's guest Jamie Fisher decided that life at 715 pounds was not really living at all, just existing, and he began his journey to find the right tools to help him thrive! We speak of his use of high fat keto, weight loss surgery and GLP-1 medication, not because any one tool failed but because Jamie had to use them together when needed to fight this battle, not just for himself but for his f...