When Jacob Miller was 15 years old, he weighed in at 707 pounds at a height of 6'5". Throughout the entirety of his life, Jacob was abnormally large. He was born prematurely and if he was carried to term, he would have weighed nearly 12 pounds. By the time he was 1, he had weighed 52 pounds. Doctors believed that Jacob had some sort of hormonal problem, which would be the cause for such extreme amounts of weight gain. By the time he reached his teenage years, he was gaining an average of 100 pounds per year, which obviously came with serious health implications. Because of his excessive weight, Jacob was the target of verbal abuse and, as a result, became depressed. Jacob realized that his weight was slowly killing him, so he did the only thing he could. He buckled down and decided to start losing weight.
At His Heaviest, This Teen Weighed 707 Pounds. You HAVE To See What He Looks Like Now.
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Along with his parents and the medical professionals at the Cincinatti Children's Hospital, Jacob made a plan to lose the weight. As just a teenage, Jacob was so overweight that he was already suffering from diabetes, cellulitis on his legs, heart disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. As a last ditch attempt, and to also help him achieve his goals faster, they opted for a gastric bypass surgery
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Prior to receiving the surgery, Jacob lost 77 pounds just by changing his lifestyle. While he showed that he didn't need the gastric bypass, it was most certainly beneficial and it expedited his weight-loss.
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Six months after his surgery, Jacob had went from a size 10x shirt all the way down to a 5x. Jacob finished his first 5k race this year, an ode to his progress.
