Zach Moore, 35, from Florida, who now weighs 168lbs (12st) shed nearly two thirds of his body weight in just 18 months so he could live to see his eight-year-old son Zach Jr grow up. He was left with 30lb (2st) of excess skin. He has shown his new body after having his excessive skin removed.
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It's hard to believe this fit Florida dad once weighed 460 pounds, but after losing a whopping 300 pounds and undergoing surgery to remove excess skin, he's unrecognizable from the man he was just a few years ago.
Zach Moore, 35, of Pierson told that when his wife became pregnant in 2007, he started ballooning in weight, too.
Within two years, he weighed well over 300 pounds.
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Following gastric bypass surgery, he and his wife Amber embarked on a journey to lose weight, which included quitting smoking, and eliminating soda and fast food from their diets. Instead, they ate home-cooked meals, and started taking walks around their neighborhood.
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Within the next few years, he set new weight goals for himself to meet, and with hard work and encouragement from his family, he dropped more than 300 pounds.
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Moore premiered his new body on The Doctors, a health and wellness show that supported him every step of the way.
As he showed off his new body, he also showed off the excess skin that resulted from losing nearly two-thirds of his body weight.
The Doctors had one last surprise for Moore.
"I'm here to help possibly complete that transformation and hopefully achieve your goals," plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Trevisani told Moore on the show as he announced he would perform a free excess skin removal surgery on him.
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Now, after an intensive skin removal requiring approximately 2,400 stitches, doctors removed Moore's excess skin from his entire body from his abdomen, butt, chest, arms and more and he revealed their hard work in this exclusive clip from Monday's episode of the syndicated daytime series The Doctors.
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The Pierson, Florida native now eats cleanly, and he and his wife completely revamped their diets to cut out processed food.
With his body now under control, Moore has a new goal run a 5K in 30 minutes. He first took on the challenge after losing 150 lbs., and finished in an hour. But with an additional 165 lbs. down (and tons of excess skin gone), Moore hopes to cut that time in half.
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