A father from Ohio who started every morning with an awful hangover began to notice his weight spiral out of control, reaching up to a whopping 350 pounds (159 kg). With this, his mood changed, and he was riddled with feelings of anxiety and self-hate. However, after facing a brush with death, his life took a 180-degree turn and he’s now been 20 months sober.
“I now have this almost boundless sense of energy that hasn’t been with me for many years,” Ryan Thom, a plant manager in the manufacturing field, told The Epoch Times. “It literally feels like this long, cold winter in my life has finally ended and it is spring again.”