Posted on 04/19/2024 2:49:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SNIP
“I had to make some changes because when COVID hit, in the words of Richard Pryor, ‘I went in the House,'” he continued. He explained that he “had a lot of the dangerous” high-risk conditions, telling Live, “When they made that list of, you know, ‘overweight, Type 2 diabetes, smoker, asthma,’ I’m like check, check, bingo.”
After Consuelos deemed it a “wake-up call,” Gardell added, “I said to my wife, I said, ‘If they just find some medicine where this thing won’t kill us, I’m going to change everything.'”
“And as soon as they did, I went and got that bariatric surgery, and then I just follow a routine everyday and I got free. I got free,” he continued.
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I also found articles saying he is no longer diabetic, but all the ones from the U.S. were disappeared. They only remain in the U.K.:
Mike & Molly's Billy Gardell reveals he no longer has diabetes following 150-pound weight loss... two years after gastric bypass operation
old paul newman in your dreams
Dude’s 55 and looks 75.
But glad he got thin, even though GBP surgery is pretty harsh and basically ruins your ability to eat normally.
He probably should have called it a day after about 130 lb. of weight loss. 170 lb. looks a bit much.
Having never heard of this show, that was one tricky headline to decipher!
Just look at “Reverend” Al...or Fat Bastard...after *they* lost a lot of weight.
“Hey,Norton...what does icky mean?” “Must mean fat!”
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