Billy Gardell

What's weird, though, is, you know, people who just knew me from Mike and Molly see me nowadays and they go, my God, he's aged.

And I'm like, well, I've lost one hundred and seventy pounds.

I'm going to have a few wrinkles.

And that was 15 years ago.

Yeah.

But, you know, it's funny how people picture you in their head from what they know you from.

So this has been about reintroducing myself to just wanting to get back to stand up.

Yeah.

Yeah, it gave me everything.

It opened the doors for everything I've been able to achieve in my career.

Yeah, I think at the end that forced my hand to do something extreme.

I had, you know, I had had that thing that a lot of heavy people suffer with where you lose 30 pounds and then you gain 35.

And then you lose 30 pounds and you gain 35.

And, you know, for people on a smaller weight journey, that happens to them too, where they, you know, lose five, gain 10.

And it's a hard thing to do.

But I got to the point where I was up to 379 pounds.

And it hurt to exercise.

So I was like, I need to do something drastic so I can move.

I need a window of opportunity.

So what I did was I elected to have bariatric surgery.