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“I’m Half The Man I Used To Be”

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Four years ago, tying his shoes was a fight Chris couldn’t always win. By 2019, he’d cut his own body weight in half.

Chris, a 24-year-old from California, is the latest subject of truly’s digital series BRAND NEW ME, featured in the episode titled “I’m Half The Man I Used To Be.” At his heaviest in 2015, he tipped the scale at 360 pounds, a number that turned routine movement into a daily obstacle. Four years of clean eating and disciplined training later, he’s down to roughly 180 to 185 pounds — and telling his story publicly to push others toward the same change.

• Chris weighed 360 pounds in 2015 and struggled with basic tasks like tying his shoelaces.
• Over four years, he lost between 175 and 180 pounds through clean eating and regular exercise, without surgery.
• He’s shed more than 70 inches across his body and now weighs approximately 180 to 185 pounds.

The Breaking Point at 360 Pounds

Chris’s low point wasn’t a single dramatic event — it was the accumulation of small failures. Bending down to tie his shoelaces had become a genuine physical struggle at 360 pounds, the kind of detail that sounds minor until it’s your own body refusing to cooperate. That was the moment, according to the episode, when he recognized the toll his lifestyle was taking and decided something had to change for good.

Rebuilding the Routine From Scratch

There was no shortcut in Chris’s plan. He committed to a regimen built around clean eating and consistent training, the same combination featured in 3 Science-Based Tips to Lose Belly Fat, and stuck with it over four years rather than chasing a quick fix. That timeline matters — losing close to 180 pounds without surgery typically means slow, sustained deficits, not crash dieting, and Chris’s transformation tracks with that grinding, incremental approach.

I’m half the man I used to be.

The Numbers Behind the Transformation

By 2019, Chris had gone from 360 pounds down to somewhere between 180 and 185 pounds — a loss of roughly 175 to 180 pounds, essentially halving his original body weight. Beyond the scale, he lost more than 70 inches across his body, the kind of measurement that shows up in loose skin, smaller clothing sizes, and a frame that moves differently than it did in 2015. It’s a physical shift comparable to the ones documented in MY BODY TRANSFORMATION, where the scale number tells only part of the story.

Turning a Private Fight Into a Public Story

Chris didn’t stop at the transformation itself — he chose to put it in front of a camera for BRAND NEW ME, walking through the before-and-after and the mobility he’d gotten back. For someone who once couldn’t tie his own shoes, the episode is a deliberate attempt to hand that same motivation to whoever’s watching and still stuck at their own starting point.

Four years, 360 pounds down to around 180, and 70-plus inches gone — that’s the full arc truly packed into one BRAND NEW ME episode, and Chris’s message to anyone watching from where he started in 2015 is simple: the shoelaces get easier before you think they will.