Man’s 300 Pound Weight Loss Success Story

ABC News' Sabrina Parise reports:

Brian Beck, of Plano, Texas, tipped the scales at 487 pounds, and has been on the heavier side of the scale for most of his life.

Even as a baby, his doctor put him on skim milk because he was gaining weight too rapidly. He was an active child, but continued to gain weight, and in college, put on the "freshman 50? rather than the more common "freshman 15."

"I was hanging out with all the football players, so I was eating like the football players, but I wasn't working out like the football players," Beck said.

By the time he graduated college, the sports medicine major weighed over 400 pounds, and found a job in radio as a talk show host, where he could hide behind his voice.

"No one could see me," he said. "I was able to have a career entertaining without having to be seen."

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But by 2003, Beck's weight, which had already taken a toll on his personal life, also began to affect his career.

"I had an interview in Orlando and I went to get a ticket and they said 'You need two . You take up a row, basically.' And I didn't have the money to pay for that second ticket. I didn't go on the interview, and that hurt," Beck said.

That's when he decided to have gastric bypass surgery. He lost nearly 200 pounds, dropping from a size 62 waist to a size 46 waist, but he didn't change his eating habits, and gained nearly all the weight back.

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Man's 300 Pound Weight Loss Success Story