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Brian Thompson: Weight loss surgery, 380 lbs and falling

Weight loss surgery, has helped Brian Thompson

Brian has found himself on the path to a longer, healthier life!

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Episode 8
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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yeah

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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m

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interviewing brian thompson living his
dream by making a substantial life

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change

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welcome to the show Brian thank you it’s
good to be here

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great to have you i am excited to hear
everything you have to say about your

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journey it’s certainly been a long one
and not without detours but every day

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just keep moving forward

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well let’s start out by giving some
background on yourself

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uh I’m 43 i live in the Lancaster County
Pennsylvania area with my wife Laura who

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is probably my biggest inspiration

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she’s she’s always known

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she’s always been more supportive of me
than I am of myself and just she’s so

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she’s been there to give me the
knowledge that I needed to move forward

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and do what it needs to be done

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what was the reason you decided to make
a substantial life change

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well at the time I was way too close to
I was over 380 pounds and I just wanted

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to make sure that i was around longer
and doing that gave me be and kind of

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just when I figured that advocated me
that the idea to go investigate

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weight-loss surgery and from that point
make the changes needed to make in my

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life because really she’s been there for
me i got to be there for her

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so you you said that you had weight-loss
surgery yeah i’m less march ahead a

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roux-en-y gastric bypass where they
basically rerouted part of my digestive

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tract and now my stomach is basically
the size of my thumb

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oh wow I was not aware that that’s that
was the course that you took I realize

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it was addressed the course but i was
also a diabetic this allowed me to get

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off of insulin and all medications only
thing I have to take anymore a little

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bit of flonase keep the keep the nose
open

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wow so you mentioned that your wife
inspires you and that’s that’s really

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touching

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it’s true that

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is there anything else that inspires you

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well just I saw that one of my
supervisors at work it had the surgery

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done and done very well with it and she
had been struggling for a long time and

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I kind of gave me a little bit of the a
push in the right direction and just

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