My name is Scott Adams, and I owe my life to the love and support I have received from Roy Nelson. This is my story:

I spent every hour of every day of my life in a violent battle with food. I was engaged in a day-to-day struggle to keep myself from eating myself to death, and I was losing the fight. From the time I was first called “fat” on the bus ride of my first day at kindergarten until the day I met Roy Nelson, I had been lost in that obsession, living a life that was barely worth living, and often wishing to simply die.

On the outside, I was the very model of an outgoing, successful person. I was always gregarious and friendly. I was a mischievous kid, but a good student. I got great grades but was always being the class clown and getting in trouble. I went to a very prestigious university in Washington, DC, where I was elected president of my student body. I worked at many great jobs there, culminating with a position in President Clinton’s White House working for Vice President Gore. My resume was spectacular. On the outside, life was better than I could have ever imagined. On the inside, I was still tormented, still eating, and still dying…losing myself to that lifelong adversary: Food.

I changed jobs, relationships, and moved all the way across the country, but no matter what I changed, the problem persisted. I had tried everything to get control of the weight: Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Atkins, South Beach, Lindora, B-12 shots, phentermine pills, gym memberships, fiber supplements, low-fat eating, personal trainers, vegetarian eating, and many more that I can’t even remember. My best effort to control my craving for food left me well over 460 pounds – and growing fast.

My health was falling apart – liver trouble, sleep apnea, hypertension and more – so I finally went to a doctor who quickly referred me to the weight management program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. I spent nearly a year there and lost 100 pounds, but I didn’t feel one bit better about myself. I was miserable deep down in my soul, and needed to kill the pain. As always, I found my way back to food and regained all of the weight…plus some.

The head nurse of the program at Cedars-Sinai referred me to Roy Nelson, and my life has never been the same.

Having been a morbidly obese man himself at one time, Roy educated me about what was wrong all those decades (which had nothing to do with food and everything to do with my deeper fears and pain) and has given me a lifestyle program that has removed my desire to hurt myself with food or anything else. He has nurtured me back from the brink of “suicide-by-food” to a life that is more vibrant and fulfilling than I could have ever imagined possible.

I could never pay back the gift that I’ve been given. I’ve been freed of my addiction to food and my compulsion to do harm to myself in any way. I have lost nearly 300 pounds—without a diet or exercise plan. On top of that, my relationships are better, my family and I get along better, and my financial debt and chaos are only memories. I wake up every day excited to face my day. I will be forever grateful to Roy Nelson for giving me a second chance to be the man I always knew I could be.

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