Join Chuck Carroll, host of the popular Exam Room Podcast from the Physicians Committee, as he shares his inspiring weight loss story.
About this Event
Lifestyle MED LIVE are interactive online events where you join leading experts to explore the power of healthy lifestyles for the prevention, treatment and even reversal of today's most common chronic diseases.
Hosts: Lifestyle Is Medicine and Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics
Presentation topic: Journey of a Weight Loss Champion
Chuck Carroll is host of the Physicians Committee’s popular “The Exam Room” podcast and known widely as The Weight Loss Champion, a name given to him by an NFL player for losing an incredible 275 pounds.
At just 5 feet 6 inches tall, Chuck weighed 420 pounds and had a 66-inch waist before radically changing his life.
Before that, like so many others, he tried and failed countless times to lose weight. Any success he achieved was short-lived as the weight came pouring back on and then some. At his heaviest, he was eating 10,000 calories every day.
Out of desperation, he decided to have weight loss surgery in 2009. Prior to the procedure he was convinced that it would become like all the other failed attempts to lose weight. Chuck was just 27 years old at the time and didn’t believe he would live to see 30. He thought at least he would go to his grave saying he tried everything.
But then the unexpected happened. He woke up from the surgery and never looked back.
Although a critical component, the procedure proved only to be the first step in his journey. In fact, he only attributes 10 percent of his long-term weight loss success to it. The rest he credits to a plant-based diet and changing his lifestyle!
By adopting a plant-based diet, he is no longer afraid of regaining the weight as he had so many times before — no more yo-yo dieting! He is thrilled that he is lowering his risk of cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease, both of which run rampant in his family. As a bonus, he is no longer spending massive amounts of money on medical expenses because of his optimum health!
The confidence he gained from the weight loss enabled him to pursue his dream of becoming a reporter where he covered sports and news for CBS and later NBC News Radio.
Presenter
Chuck Carroll, host of the Exam Room Podcast
Main Organizers
Lifestyle Is Medicine is a not-for-profit in Toronto that shares science-based lifestyle medicine to help individuals and families prevent and reverse today's most common chronic diseases. Learn more: www.lifestylemed.org
Clinic Partner
Pathways to Wholeness Lifestyle Medicine is a group of lifestyle medicine clinics that focus on preventing, treating and reversing today's most common health conditions using evidence-based lifestyle medicine. Pathways operates two medical clinics in Toronto: the North York Lifestyle Medicine Clinic and Junction Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. To learn more about Pathways and book an appointment: www.pathwaystowholeness.ca