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Al Roker is looking back on his former self.
“Hard to believe it was 20 years ago today, I wore these size 54 Levi jeans to my #gastricbypass at 340 lbs and here I am today,” the “Today” weatherman captioned a photo on Instagram Tuesday of himself holding up the aforementioned jeans.
“It’s still a struggle but I’m never going back. I have setbacks and struggle every day, but I never forget how far I’ve come.”
In a follow-up post, Roker gave fans some insight into his workout regimen, which included going for a sweaty walk on his treadmill.
The TV host, 67, first thought about getting healthy when he started feeling pressure from his “mixed-weight marriage” to second wife Deborah Roberts.
“My wife is a size 4; she runs, she works out and it became a problem in our marriage … On a Saturday she’d get up, get dressed to run and I’d be sitting on the couch or making breakfast for the kids,” he wrote in a “Today” essay
in 2013.
“She was upset about it, she was frustrated, she was angry. She thought, ‘Why don’t you care enough about yourself and why don’t you care about me and our relationship enough to change?’ And I said, ‘Look, it’s not about you. It’s about me.’”
The turning point for him was when he promised his late father he would lose weight as he lay dying.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever had to make a deathbed promise to someone you love, but if you have, you know the kind of guilt and massive responsibility I felt in that moment,” he explained in his memoir.
Following the life-changing surgery, Roker ended up losing more than 150 pounds.
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